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Creation museum still draws crowds, ruffles feathers after 2 Years
Christianity today ^ | 6/1/09 | Aaron J Leichman

Posted on 06/01/2009 4:22:27 PM PDT by OneVike

The controversial Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., marked its second anniversary this past week with slightly lower numbers than its first year but with much excitement.

“We enter our third year excited about the growing opportunities the museum provides for reaching people with the creation gospel message,” commented Ken Ham, the founder and president of the 70,000-square foot museum.

“We believe God is using us to make a difference in our post-Christian culture, and we will continue to do everything we can to help believers defend the Word of God, from the very first verse,” he added.

When the museum first opened to the public on May 28, 2007, it drew a great deal of media exposure, largely because of its literal interpretation of the Bible. Packed with high-tech exhibits that include animatronic dinosaurs and a huge wooden ark, the $27-million museum attempts to align the Bible’s literal account of creation with natural history. The museum’s staff and founder, like many other Young Earth creationists, believe dinosaurs appeared on the same day God created other land animals

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TOPICS: General Discusssion; History; Religion & Science; Theology
KEYWORDS: creation; creationism; dinosaurs; evolution; intelligentdesign; science
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Good to see that Ken Ham's dream is still going strong. Makes one wonder if Doctor Dino now wished he would have stayed on message, instead of getting caught up in the anti tax fight with the government. Ken Ham and Kent Hovind were originally partners when Ham and his buddies realized that Hovind was a bit extreme in his methods.
1 posted on 06/01/2009 4:22:28 PM PDT by OneVike
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To: GodGunsGuts

Hey guy, you might want to alert your ping list.


2 posted on 06/01/2009 4:24:17 PM PDT by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Alex Murphy; SendShaqtoIraq; ChicagahAl; SandRat; mia; HiTech RedNeck; SolidWood; Canedawg; ...

Creation Museum 1 year Anniversary ping.


3 posted on 06/01/2009 4:26:49 PM PDT by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike
I've never visited and probably won't ever bother, but it is amusing how much this must aggravate the hell out of the radical evolutionists.
4 posted on 06/01/2009 4:31:09 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: OneVike

Does this mean that the earth is now 6,001 years old?


5 posted on 06/01/2009 4:46:39 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz

Probably closer to that than 4,600,000,001.


6 posted on 06/01/2009 4:53:08 PM PDT by DrewsDad (Did he say hope and change or rope and chains?)
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To: hinckley buzzard

>>But it is amusing how much this must aggravate the hell out of the radical evolutionists.

As opposed to what? Radical mathematicians who say that pi is the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space? Hee Hee, how fun it is to get their goat when we all know pi can be adjudicated to be 3.131!

And those silly radical physicists who use trigonometric vector addition to describe the effects of known physical laws. Haw Haw, how silly they are to know that their calculations are all wrong since the Universe is 6.000 years old.

Math, Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Astronomy — how silly the followers of these are.


7 posted on 06/01/2009 5:07:59 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: OneVike; GodGunsGuts
Hey, you forgot to ping the followers of the Witchcraft Museum

I mean, all ideas are equal when you remove scientific requirements.

I personally don't believe in witchcraft but the science is the same as the Creation Museum.

8 posted on 06/01/2009 5:11:06 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: OneVike

This is religion — you shan’t be hearing from me again.


9 posted on 06/01/2009 5:11:56 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: editor-surveyor; metmom; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; GourmetDan; MrB; valkyry1; DaveLoneRanger; ...

Ping!


10 posted on 06/01/2009 5:29:12 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: OneVike
I do not get how aggravated people get over this museum. Just don't go.
11 posted on 06/01/2009 5:30:42 PM PDT by svcw
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To: freedumb2003
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See, it's full of real facts like knights fighting dinosaurs!
12 posted on 06/01/2009 5:47:59 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: svcw

>>I do not get how aggravated people get over this museum. Just don’t go.<<

I am thinking of opening a “astrology museum” as an alternative to that silly “astronomy” that is taught in schools.

The underlying science doesn’t matter at all. I can show that when the Moon is in the 7th House that it is completely scientific and people should understand that it is The Man who keeps it under lock and key!


13 posted on 06/01/2009 6:05:29 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Most of your pingees don’t even believe that Humans and Dinosaurs lived together.

There may be interesting dichotomies of interpretation of Genesis (really, the only basis for debate), but the intelligent ones don’t see Fred Flinstone’s Bedrock as ever having happening.


14 posted on 06/01/2009 6:07:59 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003

Kool. It could be interesting. Good luck.


15 posted on 06/01/2009 6:21:02 PM PDT by svcw
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To: svcw

Npw there is a liberal in the white house, I might be able to get a grant to start one.

It will have a heck of a lot more scientific basis than this so-called “museum.”


16 posted on 06/01/2009 6:23:53 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003

Understandable. Opinions come cheap when you don’t have a clue as to what you’re talking about.

Don’t they?


17 posted on 06/01/2009 6:24:21 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: freedumb2003

There is indeed a diversity of opinion on my ping list. However, we are all united in our opposition to Darwin’s discredited Evo-religious creation myth.


18 posted on 06/01/2009 6:24:27 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: BibChr; Religion Moderator

This is the religion forum.

Please do not use personal attacks.

I am already edging, so will desist from here on out.


20 posted on 06/01/2009 6:31:21 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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