Museum Claims Earth is 6,000 Years Old

[Dover]

Museum Claims Earth is 6,000 Years Old
By The Associated Press
23 May 2005




PETERSBURG, Ky. (AP) -- Ken Ham has spent 11 years working on a museum that poses the big question -- when and how did life begin? Ham hopes to soon offer an answer to that question in his still-unfinished Creation Museum in northern Kentucky.

The $25 million monument to creationism offers Ham's view that God created the world in six, 24-hour days on a planet just 6,000 years old. The largest museum of its kind in the world, it hopes to draw 600,000 people from the Midwest and beyond in its first year.

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Ham is ready for a fight over his beliefs -- based on a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament.

"It's a foundational battle,'' said Ham, a native of Australia who still speaks with an accent. "You've got to get people believing the right history - and believing that you can trust the Bible.''

Among Ham's beliefs are that the Earth is about 6,000 years old, a figure arrived at by tracing the biblical genealogies, and not 4.5 billion years, as mainstream scientists say; the Grand Canyon was formed not by erosion over millions of years, but by floodwaters in a matter of days or weeks and that dinosaurs and man once coexisted, and dozens of the creatures -- including Tyrannosaurus Rex -- were passengers on the ark built by Noah, who was a real man, not a myth.

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Respected groups such as the National Science Board, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers Association strongly support the theory of evolution. John Marburger, the Bush administration's science adviser, has said, "Evolution is a cornerstone of modern biology.'' ..cont'd

http://www.livescience.com/othernews/ap_050523_creation_museum.html

[ashmanonar]

1. hell, people can't afford to go to REAL museums,

and this joker comes up with a CREATION museum? *boggles*

[flakey_foont]

2. If T-Rex was on Noah's ark...

what did it eat?I would think that, say, cows would be gone pretty quick,, and yet they are not extinct????
and how come kangaroos are only in Australia, and not in Europe...that's a long way to hop back to

[ET Awful]

3. LMAO, the T-Rex was on the Ark . . . they must have had one hell of

a vortex on that boat to allow all those critters to fit :). You'd need a pair of them wouldn't you?

LOL . . .I'm sorry, I'll just never buy into anything that requires absolute belief in a theory that is in direct opposition to the factual evidence :) . . . I'm funny that way.

[stopbush]

4. Barnum woulda loved this motherfucker...

[sakabatou]

5. No scientific evidence...

The bible is not a textboook!

[aeolian]

6. Those idiots. The universe began 45 minutes ago.

:evilgrin: