Hello and welcome to Ono Ross and Kerry in the show where we don't just report on

foreign science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal, no, no, no, we take part

ourselves.

When they make the claims, we show up so you don't have to.

I know Kerry's not here today, but I do have an exciting guest today, Dan Phelps.

This will also be a revisit to our Ark Encounter series, and we'd often mention while talking

about the Ark Encounter that there are a lot of interesting behind-the-scenes stories,

and who better to tell us about them than Dan Phelps.

Dan is a Kentucky geologist who is the founder and president of the Kentucky Paleontological

Society, and he's been on the front lines since the 80s trying to fight creationism

in his state, and he's been closely following the career of Ken Ham and the organization

answers in Genesis.

He's written letters to the editor, he's put in requests for public records, he shared

those documents widely, he's written numerous blog posts, he's written reviews of both

the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter, both of which he attended for the National

Center for Science Education, and they honored him with the Friend of Darwin Award for

his many efforts in this fight.

He's also featured in the 2019 PBS documentary, We Believe in Dinosaurs, and much more to

say about Dan Phelps, but let's hear it from Dan himself, I'll mention this is a conversation

over Zoom, so there may be a few moments where you miss a little part of a word or sentence

from Dan, but hopefully everything's kind of there in context, but without further ado.

Dan Phelps, welcome to Ono Ross and Kerry.

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