Creation museum pushes 'true history' (About New Ohio Creationist Museum)

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[HHKrepublican_2]

A new high-tech temple to fundamentalist Christianity is due to open in heart of Middle America next May, aiming to provide the grandest riposte yet to Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Staff and supporters of the Answers in Genesis organisation call it the Creation Museum.

But secular scientists would take issue with the use of either word to describe the almost completed building that stands just a few miles west of Cincinnati, on the borders of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

Wherever you stand on the debate, it is impossible not to be impressed by the effort that has gone into constructing the $27m (£13.5m) museum, which hopes to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

"We have a planetarium to our left, and a virtually-finished bookstore.

"The museum is right under that archway there," said Mark Looy, vice president for ministry relations, standing in the foyer next to an animatronics dinosaur that is munching on a synthetic plant.

Playful dinosaurs

The museum's aim is to bring Genesis - the first book of the Bible - to life for all ages, and promote the belief that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old.

[js1138]

Dave, the Bible isn't the only account of history. It isn't even the oldest written source of history. In addition to written documents that predate the Bible, we have cave paintings that are much older. They do not depict raptors. Nor do any written histories.

[Tokra]

That's nothing! I'm est to open a $60 million Museum of the Geocentric Universe and a $100 million Museum of the Four Humours.

Here in Detroit I'm going to open a Museum of the Flat Earth and a Monument to the Four Great Turtles upon who's back the earth is carried.

[js1138]

Methinks I have wasted enough time on closed ears.

Dave, as much as we disagree on things, I do respect you for filling a much needed void at FR.

[Tokra]

I personally don't put much stock in evolution because if all there is was created by random mutation, the fossil record should be crammed full of things that did not make it, and it isn't. That's my two cents.

You are forgetting that very few things were fossilized - one out of a million, if that. The vast majority of plants and animals rotted away after death - very, very few were fossilized. The lack of fossils doesn't prove anything.

I have never had the slightest problem reconciling evolution with God. Some one had to plan and create the mechanics of evolution - just like some one had to plan and create our complicated weather system. I don't think God sits around and causes every drop of rain, I think he designed the system to work on its own. I see no reason why He couldn't have done the same thing for the system of evolution.

[GourmetDan]

"Could you please provide additional documentation on this quote? I am unable to find a reliable source through google."

OK man. I did some work for you. See the following links for Einstein's geocentric quote.

http://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2002-February/005338.html

This one has another nice geocentric quote in it. See #76 in the bottom part of the post at the above link.

http://www.gfisher.org/chapter_7.htm

See above for Mr. Fisher's quote from the post in his online book.

http://redshift.vif.com/JournalFiles/V08NO3PDF/V08N3GRE.PDF

See above for another source of the same quote.

Hopefully, one of these non-creationist links will suffice.

[Stultis]

I have never had the slightest problem reconciling evolution with God. Some one had to plan and create the mechanics of evolution - just like some one had to plan and create our complicated weather system.

HERETIC! Weather is a result of direct, special creation ex nihilo:

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name. (Amos 4:13)

Meteorological Naturalism is a Satanic Lie!

[js1138]

The Cobb County case has been settled.

http://www.scienceblogs.com/dispatches/

"In an agreement announced today, Cobb County school officials state that they will not order the placement of "any stickers, labels, stamps, inscriptions, or other warnings or disclaimers bearing language substantially similar to that used on the sticker that is the subject of this action." School officials also agreed not to take other actions that would undermine the teaching of evolution in biology classes."

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Please don't post pictures with vulgar words in them.

[Cucumber]

God created the earth and man about 6,000 years ago.

[highball]

If that is true, why do you think He left all these clues to fool us into thinking that the Earth is much, much older than that?

I'm serious. I would like to know the answer.

[Cucumber]

that's are way of "interpreting" those clues. Carbon 14 dating and the like are imperfect and are human inventions. God is much too big for us to understand.

[highball]

Thank you, I think I understand your perspective now.

I don't think there's much point in continuing our conversation. Thank you, though.

[UpAllNight]

--The Bible's authors obviously did not think it necessary to detail the entire taxonomic list of dinosaurs, --

Probably because the authors had no concept of what a dinosaur was.