I think enlightened theologian might be more accurate.

There is nothing liberal about not taking a combination of ancient and sometimes conflicting stories from varying stories and refusing to treat them as current scientific fact.


Ham's position is not conservative by any stretch. I might have had some respect if he had stood up for the rest of the Bible but picking an educational battle over Genesis while dismissing Leviticus as folklore and The Psalms and Proverbs as poetry belies the position that the Bible is the unerring Word of God.