Religion Kentucky

A spontaneous religious revival in western Kentucky is in its eighth week and is prompting some comparisons to Pentecostal revivals in Toronto and Pensacola, Fla., which started in the mid-1990s and are still going. It's also drawing comparisons to Kentucky's large-scale camp meetings of the 19th century.

There is no mention of Noah's Ark in most science museums. No mention of the Tower of Babel or the Garden of Eden, either. Instead, you get dinosaur replicas, fossils, models of spiraling DNA. And informational text promoting what millions of Americans regard as drivel: the idea that all life on Earth evolved over 4 billion years from genetic scraps. It's tantamount to brainwashing. Or so Ken Ham believes. Ham directs the global ministry Answers in Genesis.

There is no mention of Noah's Ark in most science museums. No mention of the Tower of Babel or the Garden of Eden, either. Instead, you get dinosaur replicas, fossils, models of spiraling DNA. And informational text promoting what millions of Americans regard as drivel: the idea that all life on Earth evolved over 4 billion years from genetic scraps. It's tantamount to brainwashing. Or so Ken Ham believes. Ham directs the global ministry Answers in Genesis.

A spontaneous religious revival in western Kentucky is in its eighth week and is prompting some comparisons to Pentecostal revivals in Toronto and Pensacola, Fla., which started in the mid-1990s and are still going. It's also drawing comparisons to Kentucky's large-scale camp meetings of the 19th century.

Eddie Sutton will never forget his first time in the Final Four, at St. Louis in 1978. He was 42. The way he remembers it, it was about as big as one of today's regional tournaments. He was coaching dark horse Arkansas, so nobody got too upset when they lost in the semifinals. It was fun. He thought he'd just mosey on back some year. "When I went there in '78," Sutton said last week, "I thought, 'Well, this isn't that hard.' "But it's hard getting back to the Final Four.