Posted on 10/12/2008 1:33:09 AM PDT by Soliton
The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pure Hollywood: a state-of-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah's Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint.
The Creation Museum, which teaches life's beginnings through a literal interpretation of the Bible, is claiming attendance figures that would make it an unexpectedly strong draw less than a year and a half after it debuted. More than a half-million people have toured the attraction, in northern Kentucky just outside of Cincinnati, since its May 2007 opening
"We're depressed, I think," said Dan Phelps, head of the Kentucky Paleontology Society, who toured the museum shortly after its opening. "There's been such a push in recent years to improve science education, but stuff like this still hangs around."
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At least half the population of the United States has an IQ under 100, so I'm surprised that it hasn't attracted more.
Creationists, flat earthers, UFO afficionados, baseball card economists, global warming fundamentalists, and other quacks have more in common with each other than they are willing to believe.
I generally like my Xian fellow citizens and family members, but when they start using scripture as science, I just have to roll my eyes.
Please see my tag line :)
I have seen the dino tracks at Glen Rose, Texas and it sure was not Noah's flood that froze in time those prints.
“We’re depressed, I think,” said Dan Phelps, head of the Kentucky Paleontology Society, who toured the museum shortly after its opening. “There’s been such a push in recent years to improve science education, but stuff like this still hangs around.”
Yeah and the good thing is that it will still be around long after you are gone....
Because God isn’t clever enough to create a universe where life can develop naturally, but sneaky enough to make it look like He did.
well, it’s not a bad show...I still don’t think it’s wise to mock God... He has done a lot for us, like given us Life and His Son, Jesus Christ..
Proving once again that only an idiot would believe in evolution....
Yeah and the good thing is that it will still be around long after you are gone....
Polls show that more and more Americans are rejecting evolution, which is consistent with an educational system that has improved the reasoning capacities of the average student. Evolution relies largely upon a "believe it because we told you to" model concomitant with circular reasoning which relies upon the philosophical model to interpret data in such a way as to substantiate the philosophical model. Once students realise that there are other ways to interpret data aside from the Darwinist model, they are increasingly tending to pursue those leads. No amount of evolutionist snidery and talking down at them is going to be able to stop that.
I'm unimpressed by someone who doesn't even know whether he's depressed. Or maybe I should be impressed that he hesitates to use "depressed" when he means "in a snit."
I can see it now...
Q. What's harder than getting a pregnant Brontosaurus into the ark?A. Getting a Brontosaurus pregnant in the ark!
(Noah! Make them stop. I'm getting seasick!)
How very Christian of you.
Yeah and the good thing is that it will still be around long after you are gone....
How very Christian of you.
Being an honest Christian it was an honest Christian answer
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