An Elaborate Deception
Posted on | February 10, 2007
Comedian Bill Maher paid a visit to the Creation Museum in Cincinnati, frightening Christian publisher Ken Ham, who was unaware of just who was about to interview him.
…Ham called Maher’s visit an “elaborate deception.” He said the film crew asked for a one-on-one interview with Ham after a tour of the museum. After the tour, crew members asked for permission to bring some camera equipment in through the back of the building. Ham wrote that the crew drove to the rear, then distracted an employee as Maher ducked into the building…
Ham is building the Creation Museum with private donations and funding from his publishing company, which he started in the 1970s. He said the goal of the museum is to challenge scientific points of view about the origins of life.
Ham’s blog entry complains of a “plot to deceive” him, calling this a “shocking situation” requiring new “security initiatives”:
Bill Maher did interview me; though respectful in one sense, most of his questions were just mocking attacks on God’s Word. Once we realized what had happened—that he had been “smuggled” into the building—we confronted the crew. They said it was a “misunderstanding.” As a result, we’ve now totally changed and tightened protocols for media and other visitors, well before the museum is to open.
Ham, in the business of prerecorded answers, fears questions, and promises to remain more carefully in hiding in the future. Who’s perpetrating the greater deception?
