We live in a time where truth has been traded for tolerance and conviction for comfort. What was once sacred is now mocked, and what was once shameful is now celebrated. The culture claims freedom while chaining itself to confusion. Classrooms teach doubt, pulpits avoid truth, and families struggle to stand firm in a world that no longer knows what it believes.

In this week’s episode of The Creation Today Show, we sat down with Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, The Creation Museum, and The Ark Encounter, for a deeply rich and challenging conversation about cultural apologetics. We talked about how believers can engage today’s identity crisis, defend truth, and respond to moral confusion with the authority of God’s Word.

Ken made it clear: it all begins in Genesis. Once the foundation of Scripture is abandoned, every biblical truth begins to unravel. “Secularism,” he explained, “is not neutral—it’s a religion. It’s anti-God at its core.” From gender to marriage, from morality to meaning, every cultural crisis today finds its root in a rejection of Genesis.

He called out the Church for growing lukewarm and passive while generations have been handed over to a secular education system that replaces truth with relativism. Fathers have stopped leading. Churches have stopped warning. “We’ve allowed the world to educate our children,” he said, “and then wonder why they leave the Church.”

When asked what the average believer can do, Ken reminded us that the solution should always begin with the Gospel. Starting with this foundation is key to having an effective message for the unbeliever.

Eric Hovind stated, “You have to be ready to go to battle, standing up and pushing back. This isn’t a cruise ship, it’s a battleship.”
Ken agreed with an important verse and a reminder: “Put on the whole armor of God. We are in a spiritual war against principalities and powers. We can’t sit back; we’re called to contend for the faith.”

In one of the most powerful moments, Ken said, “We’re called to roll the stone away—but only Jesus can raise the dead.” Our role is faithfulness: to equip, to train, and to stand firm on the unshakable truth of God’s Word.

If we want to see cultural transformation, it must begin where the fall began; in Genesis. Cultural apologetics isn’t about winning arguments; it’s about rebuilding the foundation so that truth can once again be seen clearly through the lens of God’s Word.

This was a meaningful and eye-opening discussion that every believer should hear—and one you won’t want to miss.

Watch the full conversation with Ken Ham: