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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a stick in the eye of Evo’s
You have got to be kidding!
dinosaurs frolicking with Adam and Eve. I am embarrassed to be an American for a moment here.
Scientists are not the ones looking silly here.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Coelacanth
Their high protestations sure prove otherwise.
“....nearly half of Americans believe God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago.”
I find that figure VERY hard to believe.
I have no idea why any well adjusted adult would have so much emotionally invested in this.
Actualy, it's low.
Your right, those Evo's are pretty emotional:
"What's wrong with the AIG museum is that it's presenting religious views as if they are science when they are not," said Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, which launched the petition."<
I’m an “Evo,” and frankly, I couldn’t care any less.
Scientists are not the ones looking silly here.
No way, surely Adam and Eve played catch with T-rex like it was a huge doggie that they had named “Toodles” and taught it to do tricks....;)
It’s America, let them do what they will, a Creation museum/ Exhibit might be interesting.
You're right. It's America and they can do what they will.
And, because its America, I can laugh at their silliness.
There are fiction movies - why not a fiction museum?
This is a national embarrassment, and makes us all look like retards.
I have no idea why any well adjusted adult would have so much emotionally invested in this.
I am concerned that American children are being taught that this is science. The USSR went down this path, where what they wanted to believe to was allowed to dominate actual science (Lysenkoism) and it put them behind in the field for decades. If you want to see other countries pull ahead of the US in science and technology, I can think of no better way to accomplish it then undermining science education in this country.
Science is what one finds, not what one wants to find to support a political or religious belief.
The dinosaurs are playing with their food.
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