Who goes to a creationist museum?

Did you know humans were created on day six of Creation Week? Not long ago. LOL

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8032641.stm

Set in 49 acres of well-groomed grounds - that's 35 more than London's Natural History Museum - this is the biggest creationist museum in the United States.

Behind it all is a Christian ministry, Answers in Genesis, committed to spreading its belief that the universe was created by direct acts of God over six days, less than 10,000 years ago. The museum, which cost $27m (£17m) to build, opened two years ago.

And while millions of people the world over will spend 2009 celebrating Charles Darwin's memory ...

The Creation Museum is the uncompromising vision of Australian-born evangelical Ken Ham, who aims to "expose the bankruptcy of evolutionary ideas" and "enable Christians to defend their faith". ...

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and a democrat shouldn't be allowed in your opinion. I didn't start out with a thread for the sole purpose of attacking christian belief you did.

don't take Genesis literally. Certainly they don't believe in a "young earth".

It's looking at a minority Christian view, out of which Ken Ham is aiming to make a lot of money. It involves people sticking their fingers in their ears and saying "la, la, la, I can't hear you" to 400 years of astronomy, geology, palaeontology, biology, and physics. Very few Christians are creationists.

He wants to blow millions building a life-sized "Flintstones Theme Park" that's okay by me.

I'd visit it because I want to ride in the Flintstone mobile and use my feet to start and stop it

It's frightening that anyone who believes this wacky stuff--would be voting.

I get very afraid for the future and survival of our species, when I know that
there are people out there who are this stupid.

is a christian and has stated it many times are you saying you can't believe he is that stupid?

passed down orally across many generations, then eventually written in many versions. Both oral and written versions were affected by political needs, cultural needs, mistakes, and so on. Many Christians understand the issues with translating both across time, cultures, and languages. What a statement means in one historical context may not be fully conveyable in another, or indeed, may mean something very different.

Thus, many people opposed to homosexuals cite the passage in Leviticus, but fail to observe Leviticus's prohibition of wearing clothes made from two different fibers. If you cite Leviticus to justify your anti-homosexual stance, then you should never wear clothing made from different fibers.

The stupidity comes from failing to understand these and many other factors. Some Christians do understand them - they are not the stupid ones.

I find it hard to understand that so many people who call themselves Christians (and especially those who condemn others using the bible) fail to show any level of understanding of what is in the bible, within the context of history, culture, language, and so on.

And most importantly of all, they fail to grasp that Jesus's message to the world was not "Hate thy neighbor".

articulate and well written reply.

fail to make any effort to study it, study historical context, study political context, study cultural context, study issues related to difficulty with translation, and so on.

I would think that failing to make a real concerted effort to understand these things (and rethink whether one's personal biases in fact cause one to act in opposition to it) would be considered sacrilegious by anyone who believed a book (or anything else) conveyed the message of their god (especially if they argued it was to be taken literally rather than philosophically or metaphorically). Thus, I'm left to conclude that many christians are stupid hypocrites. Even worse are their "religious leaders" who spew their misinformation for their own political and personal motives.

Finally, those who believe it is to be taken literally really show their ignorance because so much in the bible contradicts other portions of the bible.

was intended as parable and metaphor.

I've never heard that Obama is a creationist. In fact, he's been a hard-line proponent of science in his
policy ideas.

Where are you getting the idea that Obama is a creationist?

Are you incorrectly assuming that EVERY Christian is a Creationist? If so, your thinking is inaccurate.

like the Mesopotamians or the Folsoms?

doesn't everybody know that? :D

Dedicated to debunking science and restoring fairy tale explanations for life on Earth.

and show ships falling off the edge -- stuff like that. It'd be a double attraction.

if it were free. I would really be curious to see how something as anti-intellectual as creationism is presented in a 'museum.'

Besides I really want to see the dino saddle.

Mz Pip

People who believe evolution is evil, and therefore will never evolve. Pity them.

and it was shown on tv. lots of stupid.

Only a dumbass would believe the Earth and the entire universe is 6,000 years of age.

understand what they're up against. The people at these museums have got answers down pat and anyone who doesn't know science fairly well (majority of Americans) may be convinced by them (especially if they're inclined to believe the bible to be the word of god verbatim).

I pointed out to several people at their museum that their explanations violated the basic physical laws. I asked them whether that bothered them. Their explanation was that god could suspend or change the basic physical laws. I pointed out to one that the bible nowhere condemns abortion (and in fact, in the mosaic law which follows the commandments, there is a clear difference in penalty for killing a pregnant woman vs. causing the fetus to miscarry). They argued this wasn't true, but wouldn't bring me a bible so I could show them. (I didn't even get into all the killing that is caused by god or endorsed by god in the bible).

If you ever go to one, bring your New International Version of the bible with all the relevant passages marked.

They made a big point out of how the Grand Canyon could have been formed in a very short time by a dam suddenly releasing a great deal of water (ignoring all the fossil evidence, etc., laid down in layers, in the walls of the Grand Canyon).

These people quite frankly are nuts.

Who goes there???...that needs a survey

Should really be called De Nile...

L-

"...in about 5 minutes." Thay would be several times the speed of sound.

on their show "17/18 & Counting" they went to one. x(

It can be hard to find support out in the real world, so every once in a while it's probably soothing to visit a museum in which there's no danger of learning anything new.

Those in need of a really good laugh.

Those who need to be laughed at.

What would we think of them then?

Why the the fact that they get it from a bronze age myth make it more respectable?

People are not entitled to have their irrational, unrealistic and just plain stupid ideas respected just becuae they fall under the heading of religion. Please note that bad idea =/= bad person, at least not necessarily. Criticizing Christianity for example is not the same as criticizing people for being Christian. I ought to note, however, that being in a religion is essentially an opinon one takes on faith. It is NOT the same as being a racial, ethnic or sexual minority which are inate parts of a person's being. One can change his or her mind about god, but no one can stop being Japanese, for example.

That could be a factor.