Creation Museum Marries Adam, Eve and Dinosaurs

[bigdog5994]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3211737&page=1

According to an ABC News poll, 60 percent of Americans believe God created the world in six days. In Petersburg, Ky., this weekend, a creation museum is opening that depicts a story far from what you may have learned in science class.

Exhibits at almost every natural history museum teach that dinosaurs are millions of years old, and that they died out long before human beings existed. But at the Creation Museum, they say God created dinosaurs and humans at the same time.

The Creation Museum, designed by the same man behind some of the attractions at Universal Studios in Florida, is a $27 million, high-tech sensory experience with animatronic dinosaurs and a movie theater with seats that shake.

The museum is intended to convince visitors that evolution is wrong and that the biblical story of life on earth from Adam and Eve to Noah's ark is scientifically verifiable.

The museum depicts Adam living with animals, including a dinosaur.

Ken Ham, the president of Answers in Genesis, the group that is funding the museum, says that only "secular scientists" would maintain that the first humans never lived with dinosaurs.

"[Scientists] can say that, but what's their evidence?" Ham says, insisting that "All land animals were made on day six."

Mainstream scientists worry that because the museum is so technically sophisticated, it could be effective in giving children a distorted view of science.

"That they'll show up in classrooms and say, 'Gee, Mrs. Brown, I went to this spiffy museum last summer and they say that everything you're teaching me is a lie,'" said Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education.

Ham believes that's what should happen.

"And I say, great. Amen. That's what this place is all about," he said. "It's meant to challenge people."

The stakes are high. The museum argues that evolution jeopardizes people's belief in the Bible and leads to social ills like pornography and abortion.

"In an evolutionary world view, why should you have things like absolute morality? Why would it be wrong to kill someone?" said Jason Lisle, of Answers in Genesis. "I'm not saying that evolutionists aren't moral. I'm saying they have no reason to be moral."

this really pisses me off what do you think about this

 

[Tee Kay]

what do you think about this

Certainly not a giant leap for science...

 

[Jawz II]

Hahaaaw Hohow!

Man, I have got to come over there and see all this stuff for myself. Awesome!

 

[PrincepsAmerica]

"What's this? Creationists believe certain things I don't? Stop the presses, call the president, write the editor, and for God's sake make another thread about it on the internet, quick! I'll bet it's never been discussed there!"

 

[Urederra]

I hate seats that shake...

 

[Maimonides]

This is nothing short of child abuse.

 

[Stylesrj]

Wasn't there a thread a while back about a museum in Kentucky?

EDIT: Here's the thread... a bit old though

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?referrerid=69527&t=180236

Stylesrj strikes again?

 

[nivi]

I hate seats that shake...

Yeah and those movie theters they splash water on you for "addded effect", bah!

 

[classical_hero]

Whenever I get to America, this is one place that I want to go to.

 

[Che Guava]

Whenever I get to America, this is one place that I want to go to.

Me too. I could use a good chuckle. My favrouite in the article:

Ken Ham, [...] says that only "secular scientists" would maintain that the first humans never lived with dinosaurs.

"[Scientists] can say that, but what's their evidence?" Ham says, insisting that "All land animals were made on day six."

I can't wait so see the mountains of evidence supporting that claim.

Nothing agaist creationists or christians, but I think religion should stay in churches and in our hearts/minds, not in museums and laboratories...

 

[Leonel]

I hate seats that shake...

I know. It's one thing for the ride to encapsulate you. But just the seats shaking while the rest of the theater is stationary doesn't cut it for me.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

"[Ken Ham] can say that [All land animals were made on day six], but what's their evidence?" Ham says, insisting that "All land animals were made on day six."

I am just saying, is all.

10K Part 2!

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Well, you know, everyone has a right to their own belief, and I certainly deeply respect what anyone chooses to believe, no matter how -

no, wait, no I don't.

Idiots :snicker:

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Well, you know, everyone has a right to their own belief, and I certainly respect what anyone chooses to believe, no matter how - no, wait, no I don't.

Hmm.

I respect their right to believe it. I don't respect their right to have this taught in place of science in public schools, and it is a really really bad idea to be spending so much money on perpetuating this nonsense.

 

[bhsup]

Well, you know, everyone has a right to their own belief, and I certainly deeply respect what anyone chooses to believe, no matter how -

no, wait, no I don't.

Idiots :snicker:

Actually, Pontiuth, you are right (er, correct!) about opinions in general. Respect another's right to have an opinion, but that doesn't mean you have to respect the opinions themselves.

 

[Yuri2356]

"In an evolutionary world view, why should you have things like absolute morality? Why would it be wrong to kill someone?" said Jason Lisle, of Answers in Genesis. "I'm not saying that evolutionists aren't moral. I'm saying they have no reason to be moral."

Gah, not more of this nonsense. There are plenty of non-mystical bases upon which one can build a system of morals. The mutual benefits of co-operation over competition, for example, or basic Reciprocity.

 

[Golden Touch]

did we just go back like 1000 years?! shocking stuff. poor kids all over america, as if the curriculum science isnt challenging enough.

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

"In an evolutionary world view, why should you have things like absolute morality? Why would it be wrong to kill someone?" said Jason Lisle, of Answers in Genesis. "I'm not saying that evolutionists aren't moral. I'm saying they have no reason to be moral."

As clearly demonstrated in Calvin & Hobbes!

No wonder that kid was a little amoral twerp, his mom kept taking him to natural history museums to see the dinosaurs...

 

[MobBoss]

this really pisses me off what do you think about this

I think that its funny that it pisses you off.

 

[Elrohir]

This is nothing short of child abuse.

And I'm sure many Creationists would say teaching evolution is nothing short of child abuse. (If it truly caused abortion and pornography addiction, why not?) Do you really want the government telling people "No, you can't teach your children this religious belief"? You really want the government deciding which religious beliefs are valid, and which aren't? If so, then you have no grounds to complain when the other side strikes back, and atheists are oppressed here or elsewhere.

Separation of Church and State cuts both ways.