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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Time for the Republican party to divorce the flat earth society. Frankly, those of us that are sane are sick of this sh*t.
Done in post #46.
The definitions are on my FR home page.
I agree. I am so sick of the religious right destroying this great party.
“Read post 53. Goodbye (if you can).”
Lol.
Your debate tactics have been....
Namecall (I went to a public school - so what?)
Point out a typing error as if that had some kind of meaning
Avoid the point - that the world described by the YEC museum is rather like that portrayed by the Flintstones... Anything to avoid that like the plage, because even you know it sounds dumb.
Attempt to end the debate after you haven’t addressed any salient points, and do it in a way that puts down your opponent if they dare respond to the mighty, privately educated celmak.
You disdain science... yet you use it’s fruits, selectively.
You do know that Jewish law, dating back to Old Testament times, and the foundation of the Judeo-Christian tradition, disagrees with you in regards to when a life begins.
I raise this only to point out that opinions can reasonably differ on this matter.
Good, stop being a cussing Lib and join the Conservatives.
You do know that the Old Testament of the Bible (the Jewish Bible) differs from Jewish Law on this matter?
OK, the salient point:
There is more "faith" based in Evolution than there is in the Bible because there is less there; e.g., there is less to believe in what is mostly displayed in Natural Museums that have been around way before Ken Ham's museum. To name one example, I have seen "Lucy" still being an example to this day of the Evolution of man in these museums and this ape has been discredited over and over again.
What is your opinion on the validity of the science of Carbon-14 Dating?
Did you see the size of that wild boar that 11-year-old young man killed earlier this week. It sort of crystalized what it must have been like when leviathan romed the earth right then next to Adam and Eve and their earlier offspring.
Which was going to be my next point.
All this illustrates that rational people can come to different conclusions based on the same set of facts in this case. I don’t understand why this is particularly difficult for you to cope with.
Eve was an afterthought...
OK, you got me. Got any good Flinstone Comebacks? I’m always happy to hear from the Peanut Gallery.
“To name one example, I have seen “Lucy” still being an example to this day of the Evolution of man in these museums and this ape has been discredited over and over again.”
Lucy was an Australopithecus.
What has been discredited? Can you cite a source other than a “young earth creationist?” The skeleton is about 40% complete btw.
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