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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Now as far as living with dinosaurs I do that myself. In fact, my favorite one is a catbird that talks to me in the garden every day and there are a pair of red wing blackbirds that also hang around.
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 and behemoth roamed the earth next to Adam and Eve and the earliest generations.
Seen it before, still cracks me up.
So write me your view of how you can rationalize the other point of view so I can write back and tell you how irrational the opinion is. Rational people make irrational opinions all the time.
I don’t understand why this is particularly difficult for you to cope with.
Actually, I find this interesting... so far.
I'm with you. I don't care about this "museum," it will fit nicely with Jellystone Park trailer camps. But the ignorance on this thread really is embarrassing--not to mention pointless.
Keeping dinosaurs as pets is problematic for humans when a dinosaur tries to hump one’s leg. ;-)
A person can look at the circumstances and say life begins at birth. There’s nothing irrational, in itself, about that. I disagree, but it’s not an irrational position.
Then stop being a Democrat.
Lucy being important because of her “ability” to walk upright. First, Lucy’s pelvis was in forty different pieces when found. When they finally put it together, they found it did not fit the model of an upright hominid, so they shaped the “distortion” to fit the correct model (Donald Johanson, Ancestors, pgs. 64-65, 1994).
Second, Brian Richmond and David Strait (eminent paleoanthropologist) of George Washington University identified similar morphological features on two early ‘hominids’, including Lucy:
“A UPGMA clustering diagram … illustrates the similarity between the radii of A. anamensis and A. afarensis and those of the knuckle-walking African apes, indicating that these hominids retain the derived wrist morphology of knuckle-walkers (Richmond & Strait, Nature 404(6776): 382, 2000 ).”
Third, Charles Oxnard (Charles E. Oxnard, Dean, Grad School, Professor Biology and Anatomy, USC) reinforces the fact that Lucy is not in between ape and man, that the uniqueness of Lucy makes her an improbable candidate for the Evolutionary line of man (Charles E. Oxnard, Professor Biology & Anatomy, USC, AMERICAN BIOLIGY TEACHER, Vol. 41, May ’79, pg. 274).
In 2001, Dr. Meave Leaky (part of the great Leaky family) states:
“It is impossible to tell whether we are more closely related to Lucy or K. pltyops. There is too much missing from the fossil record since then (Cohen, Who’s your daddy? New Scientist, pg 5, March 2001).”
Then there is the trouble of trying to retract what Richard Leaky, renowned anthropologist, stated in 1983 that the scull of Lucy was so incomplete that most of it is “imagination made out of plaster of paris (The Weekend Australian, magazine section, pg. 3, May 1983),”
Oooohhh-kay?
and this means?
Wordy McWord. You're so right. And I'm saying that as someone who's both religious and on the right...too many people are starting to believe that the laws of this country and the laws they they find in their Bibles should be one and the same. I can think of another country that works that way...Iran.
Could you source that please?
I'd like to know more about your reasoning on the matter, in order to help me back you up with real notes, if I can.
A person can also say life does not begin until you retire, there nothing irrational about this either; but nobody is trying to kill our examples. If you put death by another person into the mix, you have a different outcome.
The dinosaurs ate them while on the Ark.....
heh! heh!...ha! ha! ha!....oh, hah! hah!....gad...I can't breathe from laughing....
I will pray for you.....we will need it to try and have a rational discussion on these creationism fantasy threads! Yeesh...this just blows me away to think that otherwise mature, reasonable people can really doubt evolution and believe that dinosaurs frolicked with Adam.
Only very EGO CENTRIC Christians believe this! their God is sooo small that they really think he could have only created a world in the way they would have envisioned it being created. Hey folks..!God could come up with a lot more creative ideas than your limited Creation Museum!
flame away Maroons!
You capitalize too much, as well.
Oh? They use the Bible as law?
That's because I'm a Capitalist! LOL!
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