Biblically Correct

A former teacher is opening an anti-evolution Creation Museum in Kentucky. Will its appeal extend beyond the believers?

By Dmitry Kiper
Newsweek
Updated: 3:03 p.m. MT April 11, 2007

April 11, 2007 - In the theater, the seats shake and audiences are sprayed with water at every mention of the flood. Nearby, a Garden of Eden is an animated vision depicting humans happily coexisting alongside dinosaurs and a little girl who laughs every time one of the giant reptiles bares its teeth. And nope, this isn’t your average theme park.

Welcome, instead, to the Creation Museum. Here, dozens of exhibits attempt to show the Bible as the literal truth and the theory of evolution as unsupportable by science. Creationists believe that the Garden of Eden did exist, that the world is 6,000 years old, that God created man and animals simultaneously, and that the flood wiped out every living creature that wasn’t inside Noah’s Ark.

The museum will open to the public in late May, and founder Ken Ham hopes it will attract 250,000 visitors in its first year. Located on a 50-acre piece of flat land in the little town of Petersburg, Ky., it is in the heart of Middle America—just a short drive from Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio, and, say the organizers, no more than a day’s road trip for two thirds of the American population.

Ham believes that the public is certainly ready for his museum. A NEWSWEEK poll conducted last month found that 39 percent of those surveyed felt that the theory of evolution was “not well-supported” by evidence. Last year, a Pew Research Center poll found that 58 percent of those interviewed support the idea of teaching creationism along with evolution in schools. Ham certainly shares that view. A onetime high-school biology and zoology teacher in his native Australia, he felt he could not be consistent if he taught evolution while believing in the literal truth of the Bible. He came up with his plan for a creation museum after seeing his students presented with evolution as fact when they visited natural-history museums.

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showing people who dare work on the sabbath being stoned to death to show the power of the bible. Oh wait, I'm sorry, that's part of the bible christians choose to ignore, just way too messy and wouldn't ya guess many christians work on their sabbath. Oh the pain.

How bout a statue of christians burning down a gay bar? Now thats what Jesus would do.

"58 percent of those interviewed support the idea of teaching creationism along with evolution in schools".

The thing that pisses me off is when my European friends start "Dissin'" the
Unscientific attitude, here in the USA, I don't have a leg to stand on....

"a Garden of Eden is an animated vision depicting humans happily coexisting alongside dinosaurs and a little girl"

So, in accordance with the bible, are the humans going to all be naked? Even the little girl? What will the government say about this display of child pornography? More likely, since they've already blown off the whole "Bible as the literal truth" thing by having a girl (since Cain and Abel were both boys), they'll continue down the "even though we're a bible museum we're not going to worry about silly things like what the bible actually says" road and put clothes on them.

I wonder if they'll wear animal skins (so much for coexisting peacefully with animals), or fig leaves, showing that they already ate the apple, and therefore have already been kicked out of the garden of eden.

Even in this one exhibit, oh how the contradictions astound!

First I tell them that Noah wouldn't be able to fit two of every kind of beetle species into the Ark, but let's not think about bugs, no one likes bugs, and who knows the different names of beetles? Let's do this thought experiment with dogs.

Let's replace the bugs with dogs and assume that like the beetles, Noah wouldn't be able to fit every species of dog into the Ark. Or maybe, there was just one kind of dog in the world back then since it was still relatively young. And maybe just one kind of elephant, cat, moose, etc. So the flood comes, and everything is wiped out except Noah's passengers. The flood waters recede, and out come all the animals from the Ark including the one kind of dog.

Where do we get all the different kinds of dogs that we have today then? If the Ark dogs were - say - a lab breed, where do we get dalmatians, chihuahuas, pit bulls, etc? If all dogs in the world had to come from those two dogs as God wasn't making any more animals, how did we get so many different kinds? They had to change or EVOLVE, and not only do I tell creationists, that by their own story, they have to accept evolution, they now have to accept that extreme changes can happen in much less time than scientists believe since the creationists think the world is only 6000 years old.

TlalocW

put Genesis to paper. They put in both creation stories. One story having God create man after animals as the grand climax of creation, the second creation story having man created first to display our dominance. If both stories had not be included Genesis would not have been accepted at the time it was written, it might not have even been written.


chapter 1
23 And the evening and morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. 27 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.


chapter 2
18 And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself. 19 And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.

God intended us all to listen to what the while male preachers decide the Bible really said. Didn't you get the memo?

/sarcams