At American Museum, Creationists Set Straight the 'Errors' of Science …

[unhappycamper]

According to the new Museum of Creation in Petersburg, Kentucky, this earler representation of Noah's Ark is incorrect. In actual fact, the Ark also contained dinasaurs. How could an Ark of this size have carried the huge mass of tyrannosauruses and velociraptors, one might wonder? According to the Museum, the Good Lord accomplished this by 'using babies.' Of course!

At American Museum, Creationists Set Straight the 'Errors' of Science …
By Thomas Devry
Translated By Kate Brumback
July 7, 2007


For some unknown reason, American children spend a considerable amount of time absorbing all they can about dinosaurs. It is thus not surprising to find a museum seeking to shape the minds of children using triceratopses, diplodocuses and other stegosauruses made of plastic, animated or as robots. Extremely serious institutions like the Smithsonian Museum in Washington have taken this route.

But in Petersburg, here at the heart of the Kentucky hills, tyrannosauruses and a number of velociraptors frolic in perfect harmony alongside smiling children (also in plastic). This tableau, capable of terrifying anyone who has seen Jurassic Park, is also enough to raise the hair of any naturalist, who knows that humans and dinosaurs missed each other by 60 million years. Not here though, because we are at the Creation Museum , based on the literal word of the Bible (Old and New Testaments), which reduces the age of our fine old planet Earth to 6,000 years at the most. So T-Rex and Cro-Mag playing together … not a problem.

It was inevitable that this would happen one day. Annoyed at having been ridiculed in 1925 during one of the most famous trials of the 20th century , American creationists have never ceased attempting to regain a foothold in the nation's schools. They were once again shot down last year. After that attempt to validate the teaching of the “intelligent design” of the universe by a “higher being,” they chose another form of teaching: with a museum. Conceived by Australian evangelist Ken Ham, the Creation Museum - which opened its doors at the end of May after a $27 million investment - seeks, according to its founder, to “show that every word of the Bible can be defended by modern science.” Without forgetting the dinosaurs, of course, because, according to Ken Ham, “they’re a hit with the kids.” Even a former exhibit director for the parks of Universal Studios in Florida was recruited for this holy crusade.

Chameleons. The visit begins with a show in the planetarium: a deafening demonstration on the size and the mysteries of the universe, which “secular scientists have trouble explaining.” As long as one admits that God is at the origin of all of this, there's nothing to worry about, and one can continue the visit while sipping his Coca-Cola. Next there is the video of a nice bearded paleontologist who explains to us that his “atheist colleagues” believe that dinosaur fossils go back a hundred million years, but that he estimates that the bones were buried under sediment at the time of the Flood, precisely 4,300 years ago. Carbon-14 dating is apparently invalidated by the Gospels. We also learn that chameleons don't change color to escape their predators, but to “attract females and cool down.”

A little farther along, it is explained that the Bible began losing its influence because of an abundance of free thinkers, who are maliciously denounced on a wall of shame: Bacon, Descartes, Laplace, Buffon, Darwin. One then passes on to the “scientific” explanations.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Institutionalized Stupidity

Who knew ignorance could be so methodical and.. um .. scientific

[Debau2005]

2. These people make my Pagan head hurt...I need another cup of coffee

[Marrah_G]

6. I'm right there with you.....

I will never understand religions that can sweep nature and science under the rug. It's just such a foreign concept to this Wiccan.

But, it's their right to believe as they wish, as long as they keep it out of my life.

My brain hurts trying to wrap it around teaching children that man and dinosaur lived happily together 6,000 years ago.

[Botany]

3. Check out the link .... white people with grooming products

[spirit of wine]

4. A Bedrock foundation

I sometimes wonder if creationists think of the Flintstones as a documentary?

[newyawker99]

12. Hi spirit of wine!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Ioo]

5. Thank the Lord these people are being pushed to the outer fringes

I mean, these people are so nuts even nuts pass...

[unpossibles]

11. I sure hope so, but sometimes the cynic in me wonders

since things like this seem to be gathering steam. This museum is about 20-30 minutes from my house, and while in some ways I would love to see it I would never pay to get in and support their BS. I would also probably get kicked out if I did go.

I'm sorry, but the more these people try pushing their crap down our throats the less tolerant I become of them. I used to be a lot more "live and let live" about ignorance, but I am finding it harder to be silent, and with good reason. By ignoring them, we give an implied nod of acceptance and approval, imo.

On the other hand, they are free to be morons, but I wonder if this is a tax-free non-profit venture? They openly state in their hiring policies that they discriminate - you need to provide a "statement of salvation" or some such nonsense to get hired.

[IDemo]

7. "Puff, the Magic velociraptor, lived by the sea.."

..and frolicked with the smilin' kids, til he ate them three by threeee!"

[Debau2005]

8. Now I have to clean my screen

I spewed coffee....:rofl: :spray:

[shenmue]

9. People still take ancient folklore literally...

My head hurts...

:crazy:

:cry:

:scared:

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. That's just silly. Dinosaurs fit onto the ark because, like

Dr Who's 'tardis', it's bigger on the inside.

[canetoad]

13. That ark did some serious mileage

See that bird in the top right hand corner? That's a rainbow lorikeet, native to Eastern Australia.