Creation Museum Reports Strong First Month Attendance

Christianpost.com ^ | July 1, 2007 | Doug Huntington

[GunRunner]

Well, you can bet that there’s very little paleontology or geology on those tests.

[The Blitherer]

I’m sorry, I don’t mean to sound hostile. I just have a soft-spot for home schoolers, many of whom are the most well-educated people I know and are great champions of Conservatism in my generation. It bugs me when people imply they are backwards because they believe in creationism.

[Stultis]

“I’ve been a Christian for many years,” said motivational speaker Zig Ziglar in a statement, “but this museum has strengthened my faith.”

Now that's just sad.

[The Blitherer]

Well, you can bet that there’s very little paleontology or geology on those tests.

So let's say you're right, that it will hurt students in those areas. How does that relate to your original point that it'll hurt our students when they compete with "the Asians" in technology?

[GunRunner]

So let's say you're right, that it will hurt students in those areas. How does that relate to your original point that it'll hurt our students when they compete with "the Asians" in technology?

So you don't think someone with a creationist point of view will be at a disadvantage when pitted against someone with a point of view rooted in modern geology and paleontology?

I'll give you an example. If a kid brought up to believe in creationism wants to grow up and work on nuclear reactors, how is he going to mediate the fact that the half life of Plutonium 235 is 700 million years when he believes that the Earth is 6,000 years old.

I'd call that a potential problem.

[gunsofaugust]

Good grief. Its just one museum that is not sucking up government funding. The shrill overreaction to some great danger we are all now in is nothing short of childish. At least the people who probably run the museum are usually on our side on the most important issues that directly impact our lives.

The liberals get all kinds of public funding for liberal nonsense like PBS and a government mandate to spread known falsehoods on any number of more dangerous issues. I am an evolutionist and a conservative Catholic but I have no fear of the museum at all, its a free country. Stop whining like a bunch of liberals.

[The Blitherer]

Hmmmm...I guess it's a real good thing then that nobody currently working on our nuclear reactors believes in creationism, or we'd be in big trouble.

Try reading some Hugh Ross.

[null and void]

LOL! ‘sok, really!

[Stultis]

My point is, given that our public schools are currently NOT teaching creationism and yet the quality of education in America is continuing to decline at such a rapid rate, perhaps you shouldn’t worry too much about the “threat” of creationism finding it’s way into kids minds.

Yeah, but the schools weren't teaching anything remotely resembling Ken Hamm's / AIG's young earth "creation science" back before the decline in educational standards either.

This stuff wasn't even invented until the 1900's and 10's by George McCready Price, a Seventh Day Adventist whose efforts were more directly invested in upholding the literal truth of "Prophetess" Ellen G. White's utterances than those found in the Bible. (The Bible never says that Noah's flood deposited most of the earth's fossils, or even that it was geologically significant, but White did say exactly that.)

Even then this flood geology scheme attracted little attention outside of Seventh Day Adventist circles. It didn't even begin to become popular among fundamentalists and evangelicals generally until Price's ideas were (mostly superficially) reworked and repackaged by Morris and Whitcomb in The Genesis Flood, published in 1961.

[The Blitherer]

Yeah, but the schools weren't teaching anything remotely resembling Ken Hamm's / AIG's young earth "creation science" back before the decline in educational standards either.

That is a valid point.

[Star Traveler]

One of those Darwinists was quite saddened at how good the displays are. This one lady (can’t remember what kind of “official” she was...) said that now these kids will believe what they see at the museum, since the displays are of such quality.... Apparently the quality of the place really blew her mind... LOL...

[applpie]

haha. and i am thrilled they do not have to give equal time. you watch — some hate filled darwinist will inflict damage or do something stupid to the museum. they can’t tolerate another opinion.

[applpie]

there are many modern geologists and palentologists who are creationists. some of the most interesting talks i have heard blend both. those who believe in evolution simply ignore alot of the fossils or evidence that don’t fit their mind set. sounds kind of unscientific to me.

[Stultis]

That is a valid point.

You're not supposed to write that. This is CREVO thread for goshsakes. Have some respect for the format.

[Kirkwood]

“Yeah,” one kid said, “everybody knows the Earth’s only 6,000 years old.”

Hey, kid. If the universe is only 6000 years old, and the speed of light is a measurable constant, then why is it we can easily measure distances of millions of light years and more to other galaxies in the universe? How can we see light from so far away if we can only see 6000 light years into the past?

[The Blitherer]

You're not supposed to write that. This is CREVO thread for goshsakes. Have some respect for the format.

Oops. Sorry. What I MEANT to say was that you're a godless heathen pagan and you're gonna burn in hell forever.

;-)

[Raymann]

I’d go, I need a good laugh :)

[Stultis]

Thank You!

[GunRunner]

I am an evolutionist and a conservative Catholic but I have no fear of the museum at all, its a free country.

If it doesn't concern you that a large block conservative citizens are bringing their children up with pseudoscience then I have no response. I see it as the same kind of problem that we have with indoctrinating kids into the global warming cult.

Believe what you want, I don't care.

[GunRunner]

If he believes the Earth is 6,000 years old, I won’t waste my time. I will however make sure that I live at least a 1,000 miles away from whatever reactor he is in charge of.