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Dinosaurs frolic with Adam and Eve at creationism museum
afp ^ | may 20, 2007 | Mira Oberman

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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To: UndauntedR
Well, I was enjoying this go around until your comment. Perhaps the Republican Party should adopt the Marxist atheist philosophy of the left? This great party along with this great country was founded by the “religious right”

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.

81 posted on 05/26/2007 7:00:30 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: celmak

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.


82 posted on 05/26/2007 7:00:33 PM PDT by The Grim Freeper
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem

Seen it before, still cracks me up.


83 posted on 05/26/2007 7:00:45 PM PDT by dighton
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To: HitmanLV
All this illustrates that rational people can come to different conclusions based on the same set of facts in this case.

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.

84 posted on 05/26/2007 7:03:05 PM PDT by celmak
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To: Coyoteman




Some may find the next one offensive - I find it funny. You'll have to cut n paste the link. If you think a humorous representation of your messiah is sacrilegious, don't look.
Youv've been warned - http://www.beckysdi.com/biblicaldinos/crucifixion.jpg
85 posted on 05/26/2007 7:03:34 PM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
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To: IonInsights
Time for the Republican party to divorce the flat earth society. Frankly, those of us that are sane are sick of this sh*t..

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.

86 posted on 05/26/2007 7:04:03 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: celmak

Keeping dinosaurs as pets is problematic for humans when a dinosaur tries to hump one’s leg. ;-)


87 posted on 05/26/2007 7:05:04 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Looking for work)
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To: celmak

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.


88 posted on 05/26/2007 7:05:45 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: UndauntedR

Then stop being a Democrat.


89 posted on 05/26/2007 7:10:57 PM PDT by celmak
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To: IrishCatholic
Well, I was enjoying this go around until your comment. Perhaps the Republican Party should adopt the Marxist atheist philosophy of the left? This great party along with this great country was founded by the “religious right”

But when they do stupid **** like this and it gets pinned on all of the Right...

And no, in the past the Republican party was much more libertarian.
90 posted on 05/26/2007 7:12:54 PM PDT by UndauntedR
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
"What has been discredited?"

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),”

91 posted on 05/26/2007 7:17:15 PM PDT by celmak
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To: labette

Oooohhh-kay?

and this means?


92 posted on 05/26/2007 7:17:20 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: UndauntedR
I agree. I am so sick of the religious right destroying this great party.

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.

93 posted on 05/26/2007 7:18:24 PM PDT by cammie
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To: HitmanLV
"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."

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.

94 posted on 05/26/2007 7:21:11 PM PDT by Radix ( Honey, I shrunk our Carbon Footprint.)
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To: HitmanLV
"A person can look at the circumstances and say life begins at birth. There’s nothing irrational, in itself, about that."

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.

95 posted on 05/26/2007 7:21:52 PM PDT by celmak
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To: celmak
I guess this explains the extinction of some species....

The dinosaurs ate them while on the Ark.....

heh! heh!...ha! ha! ha!....oh, hah! hah!....gad...I can't breathe from laughing....

96 posted on 05/26/2007 7:22:03 PM PDT by stboz
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To: Coyoteman

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!


97 posted on 05/26/2007 7:22:34 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: celmak
OK, you got me. Got any good Flinstone Comebacks? I'm always happy to hear from the Peanut Gallery.

You capitalize too much, as well.

98 posted on 05/26/2007 7:23:31 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: cammie
"... 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."

Oh? They use the Bible as law?

99 posted on 05/26/2007 7:24:04 PM PDT by celmak
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To: Ken H
"You capitalize too much, as well."

That's because I'm a Capitalist! LOL!

100 posted on 05/26/2007 7:26:19 PM PDT by celmak
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