Posted on 05/26/2007 4:48:47 PM PDT by celmak
PETERSBURG, United States (AFP) - Dinosaurs frolic with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and an animatronic Noah directs work on his Ark in a multimillion dollar creationism museum set to open next week in Kentucky.
Designed by the creator of the King Kong and Jaws exhibits at the Universal Studios theme park, the stunning 60,000 square foot (5,400 square-metre) facility is built for a specific purpose: refuting evolution and expanding the flock of believers in a literal interpretation of the Bible.
"You'll get people into a place like this that you can't get into a church with a stick of dynamite," said founder Ken Ham from his office overlooking the museum's manicured grounds.
Polls consistently show that nearly half of Americans believe God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago. Only about 13 percent believe God played no part in the origin of human life.
Ham does not blame evolution per se for society's ills. He believes that sin has been around since Adam and Eve took their fateful bite of apple about 5,700 years before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species."
But he says the theory of evolution has been used to undermine the validity of the literal truth of the Bible, heralding a dangerous age of moral relativism which can be blamed for everything from racism to the Holocaust.
Located just outside of Cincinnati near the intersection of the states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, nearly two thirds of the population of the United States lives within a 650-mile (1,050-kilometer) drive of the Creation Museum.
It is expected to draw at least 250,000 people a year when it opens on May 28.
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The creationists read the Bible, and have taken their lead from there.
Not sure I understand your question.
Actually, reputable, PhD scientists would disagree with you. It is not as obvious as you say it is.
reputable meaning ones that agree with you?
For that matter, if the heyday of the dinosaurs began in the Garden of Eden and lasted until the Flood of Noah, with “humans happily coexisting alongside dinosaurs” during that period, it’s rather odd that the Bible never mentions them. The Old Testament does, after all, quite frequently refer to the various animals with which its human protagonists shared their environment. One would think that great herds of RV-sized sauropods munching contentedly away at the available vegetation (and presumably competing for it with the humans’ domesticated animals) would have been rather noticeable, and that the larger predatory dinosaurs would have been terrifyingly dangerous to humans with primitive technology. But no, the whole Jurassic Park menagerie was apparently deemed unworthy of mention by the author(s) of Genesis.
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No, “reputable” meaning those with advanced degrees who have actually done research in the field, and have written peer-reviewed treatises and books on the subject.
Could you please link me to the works of some reputable scientists who think that humans and dinosaurs (in the common term i.e. T Rex, Brontosaurus) existed at the same time as humans?
The YEC'rs DELIBERATELY misquote the bible to make their position seem more credible. Why did you use their misquote instead of the actual bible verse?
Such as?
And how many animals does the Book of Genesis refer to? Job refers to the behemoth. There are five references to the leviathan. Which Bible are you reading where there are no references to animals?
Uh, we were discussing dinosaurs ...
From my 264:
One would think that great herds of RV-sized sauropods munching contentedly away at the available vegetation (and presumably competing for it with the humans’ domesticated animals) would have been rather noticeable, and that the larger predatory dinosaurs would have been terrifyingly dangerous to humans with primitive technology. But no, the whole Jurassic Park menagerie was apparently deemed unworthy of mention by the author(s) of Genesis.
Kurt P. Wise, Ph.D. Geology (Paleontology)
Education:
B.A. Geophysical Sciences (Majored in Geology while close to a second major in Biology), University of Chicago - 1981
M.A. Geology, Harvard University - 1984
Ph.D. Geology (Paleontology), Harvard University - 1989
Ph.D. dissertation: The Estimation of True Taxonomic Durations from Fossil Occurrence Data.
with “a tail like a cedar.”
NOTE: there is no mention of giraffes, either. But they, by their very size, might have warranted the same kind of attention. But they weren't mentioned. The fact that they aren't mentioned doesn't prove they didn't exist. It simply demonstrates...nothing.
What's your emotional reaction to Nazi Germany's Jewish holocaust? If it's any different from your emotional reaction to America's abortion holocaust there is something out of balance in your brain's emotion-generating apparatus.
The murder of millions of innocent, helpless, human victims should be equally ghastly and emotionally evocative to anyone with an operative moral compass whether it is carried out for the sake of racial "purity" by Nazi goons or for monetary reward by American abortionists.
Good one. He has admitted that he relies on the bible over science.
Although there are scientific reasons for accepting a young earth, I am a young-age creationist because that is my understanding of the Scripture. As I shared with my professors years ago when I was in college, if all the evidence in the universe turned against creationism, I would be the first to admit it, but I would still be a creationist because that is what the Word of God seems to indicate. [Ed. note: Although Scripture should be our final authority, Christianity is not a blind faith. See ‘I have the Bible—what more do I need?’] Here I must stand.
Your hippo is NOT aroused. From the biblical passage, it is obvious that it is referring to an aroused animal.
According to Joshua 10:13 God seemingly stopped the universe
13 So the sun stood still, And the moon stopped,
Till the people had revenge
Upon their enemies.
If God can put man outside of earth's time so that man can accomplish his purpose, is man's time and earth's time the same. Do they have to be the same. The bible indicates they are not. What if earth time was longer during the flood than Noah's time?
Also:Kabakkuk
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of Your arrows they went, At the shining of Your glittering spear.
That statement is not in accordance with the Bible.
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