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one of this book’s great pleasures. Did I mention Edwin’s passionate zeal? Edwin Kagin is well known in the greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky area as a fighter for church-state separation, the civil rights of unbelievers, and the independence of scientific inquiry. When evangelist Kenneth Ham of an outfit called Answers in Genesis came to the area and proposed to open a museum of young-earth creationism opposite the entrance of a Kentucky state park famed for its fossil deposits, Edwin leapt into action, mobilizing FIG and sundry members of greater Cincinnati’s scientific and educational communities as he went. It turned into one of organized humanism’s more colorful success stories: the campaign Edwin led blocked Kenneth Ham from opening his museum for several years. Ham finally got his museum built, but he had to settle for a far less conspicuous location. During this period Edwin frequently unleashed his pen in the general direction of the Reverend Ham, producing everything from vitriolic essays to hilarious doggerel. Not a few of the “baubles” in this book came out of the Battle of Big Bone Lick (which was the name of the state park).
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