Creationist Museum: Dinos and People Lived Together?
There’s no scientific evidence like a dream telling you that the biblical story of creation is scientific fact! And in modern America, there’s no cultural industry more popular than reactionary evangelism. What a great idea to combine these into a museum where we learn that humans lived with dinosaurs. I hear they’ll be selling old Dino-Riders toys and comic books in the gift shop. :-)
For some a battle between science and religion is being fought for the soul of America. The Creationists argue God created the world in six days and want their beliefs given equal status to evolutionary science.
Petersburg, Kentucky, is in the middle of North America. It is supposedly within a day’s drive of two-thirds of the US population.
For the rest, it is just 10 minutes from Cincinnati International Airport. That is why it was picked as the site for a new museum, due to open in a couple of months.
We enter the landscaped grounds through gates flanked by wrought iron stegosaurs.
The lobby is modelled on a cliff in the Grand Canyon. But this is no ordinary museum of science and geology.
It is the dream of Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian ministry that promotes the idea that the Biblical book of Genesis should be taken literally in describing the creation of the world, life and humans as carried out by God over a six-day period a few thousand years ago.
We get as far as the museum bookshop - already well-stocked with creationist titles - but no further.
Officials tell us that state regulations forbid it. It is still under construction and closed to visitors.
Is this, I wonder, because I am accompanied by Eugenie Scott, director of the National Centre for Science Education and a polite but determined campaigner against attempts to teach creationism alongside evolution in American school science classes.
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1 opinion for Creationist Museum: Dinos and People Lived Together?
R Richnow
Apr 29, 2007 at 8:43 am
You’re comments made my point from a previous response about those who talk about creationism. Many fall head over heals for the dogma of silliness while they berate an idea they evidently have not researched. Climb aboard the boat of critical thinking. Open your mind to new ideas and approach creationism from a scientific approach. Find out what all the hubbub is about before you fly off the handle with cut downs of those who are using logic and science to substantiate the biblical account of creation. Evolution has no proveable facts. Not one. Feel free to investigate!
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