http://salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8PF12I00.html

then $20 for a feel-good story that doesn't make you think very hard is bargain!

quoth Gordy:

Ham blames the notion that the Earth is quite a bit older than the Bible suggests for just about all the world's problems. Evolution, which requires large amounts of time for small changes to accumulate into larger ones, makes it far too easy for people not to believe the Bible, he says. And that loss of belief "is at the root of modern evil."

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this is what Dawkins has been saying for a long, long time. I find it fascinating that this guy is, in essence, saying that if evolution if true, then Christianity is a fraud. Wow.

This article is also proof-positive that the evolution of a large forebrain has simply been wasted on some of us.

Great article Gordy. It'd be funny, if it wasn't so sad...or, frankly, a little scary.

That article was sooo funny. I love how the dinosoars were calm creatures eating leaves lol and Adam and Eve, super white people with electrolysis getting it on in the lake. I always thought that you couldn't have sex in the water, I guess I'm wrong about alot of things:)

Being some left wing girl who believes in evolution and having the experience working with some born agains all you can do is slowly walk away. It is scary what some believe and how these people blindly follow what their church tells them. Everything is black and white, women's places are in the home with alot of kids and gays are evil. A few years ago CNN said, as a joke, they should put America and Canada together putting the left wings in one section called the United States of Canada and putting the right wings in another section called Jesusland. Maybe CNN had the right idea.

This piece is a classic example of "false fairness" -- the presentation of a controversy in a he-said/she-said manner without mentioning that one side is ten pounds of crap in a five-pound bag. This paragraph

For generations, paleontologists have shown that dinosaurs and humans never trod the Earth at the same time, that in fact with the exception of birds (modern-day dinosaurs), they never got within 60 million years of each other on the timeline of natural history. Not so, says Looy. "They all had to exist at the same time because they were all made on the same day. There may not be any fossil evidence showing dinosaurs and people in the same place at the same time. But it is clearly written that they were alive at the same time."

is a perfect example, and it's Slack's closest approach to actually presenting some scientific reality. For shame, Salon.

These are the people you need to preach to:

http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/museum/pictures/three-cs-theater-gs-traini.jpg

http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/museum/2007/05/19/guest-services-update-3/

Look in their eyes -- they believe. What can you do to bring them to their senses?

Remember, they (were instructed to) believe that what the Bible says is far more relevant than what the data says. So using data in your arguments is futile.

And the Bible warns them about people just like yourselves.

You're up against a culture, of which this propaganda exhibit is merely a symptom (and an opportunistic one at that).

Where did the initial $27 million come from?

Also -- and perhaps most importantly -- note the emphasis on making money. Hey, it's a hell of a business plan -- locate near the faithful, tell them just what they want to hear, gently tug the $20 bills from their trembling grasp, all while not giving them any hint that they are suckers. Follow the money...

Is why would someone chose to substitute a bland, infantile creation myth for the spectacular, elegant and totally mind blowing workings of ecology, evolution, climate systems, biology and physics (among many) that help explain us, our origins and the universe?

The perpetrators of intentional ignorance should not be taken lightly. They are extremely dangerous people: they have organization, money, media outlets, and an endless supply of people who desire, no, clamor for, a simple explanation for everthing so they don't actually have to think.

Because we have underestimated them, ridiculed them, even been encouraged to ignore them because they will go away, they are now in charge of the national government.

I guess I answered my own question.

Who did Eve's breast implant's do you think?

As author Diego Steed illustrates in his short story, "Dirty Bones," so-called mainstream, science-based museums, with their secular, Godless exhibits, are magnets for Darwinite perversions and desecration.

http://electricstorytime.blogspot.com/2007/02/dirty-bones.html

"But at the risk of asking an obvious question, would any of you offer the same level of ridicule for a similar museum created by Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Wiccan, or Shinto fanatics? You say you would. But of course you wouldn't. We all know it."

Sure I would. What makes their fantasies any more or less special than this one?

I'm just ashamed of the idiots who sunk $27m into a theme park with the designated purpose of propagating their lie. I'd recommend they go back and read the book of Tests - they've taken the perfectly good brains that their God supposedly gave them, and buried them in the sand, just so that they can eventually go to Him and present their smooth cortexes and ask "Did we not do well to preserve them without growth?"

T

I'm a Christian and I don't understand why this exhibit supposedly honors God as the Creator.

When I was a child, and learned about the continents drifting on their tectonic plates over millennia, I looked at my globe of the Earth, and had confirmed what I had long suspected. South America and Africa had been one land mass eons ago.

Their appearance of fitting together, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle on the globe would have made any child wonder about this. Back then, I would have been shocked to have someone tell me that plate tectonics was not a "Christian" belief. The dichotomy of Science and Religion did not seem to mean that believing in one excluded the correctness of another.

Although we can all point to examples where the belief that the world is 6,000 years old is ludicrous, (mine is the presence of sea fossils at the top of the Himalayan mountains, indicating that the mountains had once been an ocean bed), I don't think facts or science will prevail upon these individuals.

In my own world view, I see the scientific explanations of creation as our best theories and very credible. The fact that the Bible says that there was a moment where creation was called into being is very consistent with the idea that the universe had a definite beginning, in the Big Bang.

Today, I see science as revealing more and more of God's mystery and majesty on every scale, from the quantum microcosm to the multiverses and branes of string theory. I am troubled that the faith which these Creationists express seems to be bent on suppressing enlightenment and the findings of scientific discovery.

For a true believer, the Bible is not meant to be a scientific treatise, or a "how-to" guide for science. If God had chosen to impart scientific knowledge in the Bible, it would have had to be dumbed down in orders of magnitude for even the best of our present-day scientists to understand at all.

For the Creation Museum builders, those that I would call "unbelievers", God is not sufficiently great enough and his creation not sufficiently wondrous enough to inspire any awe whatsoever. Instead, these unbelievers feel that they have to apologize for God and the fact that, in their eyes, science and God cannot coexist. Their faith cannot withstand any serious test of scrutiny or exposure to reality. Therefore, they build a Creation Museum, a false idol to their own arrogance and short-sightedness.