Letters to the Editor

Inside the Creation Museum Adam and Eve frolic amid the dinosaurs in the new $27 million museum that demonstrates Darwin has nothing on the Book of Genesis. By Gordy Slack [2007-05-31]

• Could they have named it something else?

  There are so many aspects of this place that anger me. I agree with the physics professor interviewed in that it is an anti-science institution. More than that, it is anti-thought, racist, homophobic, political, culturally biased, ridiculous, mendacious -- if not for the 1000 word limit of this comment, I would come up with another 6000 criticisms for each and every one of the 6000 years of their incredible history, which is as far from the history in which I majored at college as the remotest galaxy is from our planet.

  Nevertheless, groups such as Answers in Genesis have a right to their beliefs and to spend their money how they like, and those of us who disagree, must try to extinguish the animosity we may feel. Of course, it is difficult to silence our antagonism when such places are given titles they do not merit. The word museum comes the ancient Greek mouseion, meaning 'shrine of the Muses,' and obviously predates Christianity. The modern concept of the museum is one of the many begotten by the Renaissance, a time that brought Western Civilization out of the Middle Ages, encouraging people to analyze and think critically. The so-called 'Creation Museum' does just the opposite, in the audacious guise of what it is not. Could they have named it something else?

  -- Hippocampe
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