If Eve was created out of Adam's rib, how come she has an umbilicus?

Contemplate the crotches of Ken and Barbie.

I am reading these letters and quite frankly am totally amazed.

One, the decryers of this museum were not asked to contribute one cent to its 27 million dollar cost. Nor did they give a cent of taxes to it. So what is the fuss about people who want to give their money to build this museum?

Two, many letter writers think that this museum is some kind of assault on their intelligence. I think their ability to offended by this only reflects their incapacity to allow other people their opinion.

Three, many letter writers wonder why there are people who wonder why people believe these kind of things and why they would support the promotion of these kinds of ideas. Implicit in these expressions of censure is that freedome of the first amendment might not be for this kind of speech. Well, let's see - just a few days ago we celebrated Memorial Day and most of of us acknowledged our gratitude for those who served (and are serving) our country and gave the sacrifice of their lives so to protect the First Amendment. So we have the guarantee of the freedom of expression and some people are offended that some people's expression is contrary to their views. The moment the owners of the creation museum's freedom of expression is curtailed, watch out because yours may be next. The freedom of the Atheists to hire a plane to fly over the exhibit and to parade outside was also guaranteed by the same soldiers we all memorialized on Memorial Day.

I haven't read all the many letters to this topic so maybe this is duplicative. But we should realize that the majority of these folks >also< believe we are in the End Times, that the Rapture is around the corner (for the true believers), and that Armageddon is a blessed thing to be worked for because it will herald the Second Coming. This museum and its fundamentalist teachings are part and parcel of the same belief system.

That, to me, is the real danger. And these people do vote. And join the armed services (did you know fundamentalist chaplains now predominate in both our regular military and our military academies - check out Mike Weinstein's book about the Air Force Academy, "With God on Our Side").

It is far more serious in the short-term than worrying about whether we can compete in a scientific world.

Mary

Do the Adam and Eve models have bellybuttons?

How about this fact. The Holy Bible is very long and EVERY LINE WRITTEN pertains to man's relationship to his God. You probably will not be the same aftewards.

Wow, really? Even the Song of Solomon? That seems to be about man's relationship to his honey's bodacious rack.

That's some divine relationship right there!

That said, I would very much like to know what evidence they have against it being an apple. The conspiracy theoritst in me thinks that what they are afraid of admitting is that it was...wait for it...passionfruit.

Apples aren't native to Iraq, which is where the plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates is located.

Wait.

Iraq???

Hmm...

Gravity is only a theory too...perhaps more testing from high buildings?

Just kidding...but seriously, the "believers" don't undrestand the terminology and then use that ignorance in their arguments.

Well, what can you do? The country has an amazing primitive streak. Always has. Keep on truckin' and hope for the best. Sure glad I live in a relatively progressive blue state area.

40%? That's rank.

At least they are brunettes.

Here's my question. Who paid Mr Slack for this piece of PR tripe, Salon or Answers In Genesis? Both?

...because it's too crazy to be about belief.

The astonishing ability to believe two things are true when in complete contradiction. To use as one's supporting argument the very logic that undoes one's own argument...amazing every time I see it.

Evolution is just a "theory" they say, it has only been supported 1,000,000 times and never once contradicted...but it's only a theory...

These same kooks believe in a book that not one single person alive or dead has ever seen or touched in original form, and the copies written decades and more after the fact all tell a different story and contradict each other. Even when compiled into one work, there are more contradictions and horrifying examples of a sick and demented god who wipes out whole populations in anger.

Given their own test, they could not possibly believe, and yet they do!

This is not faith; it is the shadow of faith.

This is one of the best reasons why Churches need to give up their tax free status. They are spending outrageous amounts of money on crazy, and lining their own pockets with money that could be used for worthy pursuits.

Awesome...I am in awe.

If one reads Genesis carefully, it is obvious that it contains not one but two separate creation stories. Which one is "true"? The KIng James version is remarkably clear on this matter. To me, the creation story is all about how humans should relate to their surroundings and to each other. The creationists make Genesis into a dull scientific treatise. By doing so, they miss the real point

The big puzzler for me is why America has such deep-rooted resistance to science. The rest of the developed world seems to live with no fear of facts.

So much progress has originated or gained momentum in America. It is very odd to me that this strain is so virulent.

...piggyback on this one by Anonymous:

"viruses, bacteria, parasitic worms...did they all just get along in Eden? Only after the Fall did they start their destructive life cycles?

Did Noah carry them onto the Ark?

What about HIV? Just hanging out with nothing to do for all those years?

Oh, I forgot. HIV was designed, built, and sent by God RECENTLY. To kill the homosexuals."

But God created nothing to kill lesbians? So, God likes lesbians? Typical guy.