Creation Museum opening this weekend

[BushOut06]

http://www.creationmuseum.org/

I wonder how many local fundies will be demanding that public schools offer field trips to this museum. What other museum teaches that dinosaurs co-existed with man a mere 6000 years ago?

I shit you not - here's an except from answersingenesis.org, the group that put the museum together:

The story we have all heard from movies, television, newspapers, and most magazines and textbooks is that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. According to evolutionists, the dinosaurs ‘ruled the Earth’ for 140 million years, dying out about 65 million years ago. However, scientists do not dig up anything labeled with those ages. They only uncover dead dinosaurs (i.e., their bones), and their bones do not have labels attached telling how old they are. The idea of millions of years of evolution is just the evolutionists’ story about the past. No scientist was there to see the dinosaurs live through this supposed dinosaur age. In fact, there is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old. No scientist observed dinosaurs die. Scientists only find the bones in the here and now, and because many of them are evolutionists, they try to fit the story of the dinosaurs into their view.

Here are a few other goodies that this museum teaches:

* There are no more stars forming - they were formed during Creation (http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i1/feedback.asp)

* The earth was created before the sun and the rest of the stars (http://www.answersingenesis.org/Docs/399.asp#1)

* While they've abandoned the idea that the earth is the center of the universe, they still think that our galaxy is the center of the universe. Guess old habits die hard. (http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v16/i2/galaxy.asp)

* Earth went from a single continent (Pangea - sp?) to the current state in a mere 6000 years (http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/continental11.asp)

* There has only been one Ice Age in Earth's history (http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/fit/chapter11.asp)

This and many other fundy follies await you if you desire to visit this museum.

I don't know what's scarier - the fact that this museum exists, or that so many people believe all this bullshit.

[firefox_fan]

1. Do they have any fossils with God's fingerprint on them?

That would proof he planted them!

[AlCzervik]

2. Do they have a slide show of dinosaurs ripping apart cave men?

[shenmue]

3. Road trip?

I would so love to go there, just as a gag, and see if I can record just how many errors there are in the place.

I bet the only thing they got right will be the names of the sandwiches in the deli.

:dunce:

:crazy:

[Xipe Totec]

8. They have maps to the Garden of Eden?

Cool!




:rofl:

[rasputin1952]

4. This is gonna be a bust...nice to see that the Fundie element

can spend their money on this, rather than alleviating poverty, childhood disease, hunger, freezing seniors in the winter, ensuring that those who are unjustly accused are set free, ending war and acts of aggression.

Nice to see that the teachings of Jesus are so well founded in whatever faith they are claiming this week...:sarcasm:

[BushOut06]

5. I think I heard something like $40 million to build this museum

Just think of all that money could have done.

[physioex]

6. If you saw that documentary....

"Friends of God", then none of this should be very surprising. If you haven't then let me know, you can catch clips on google.......

[rasputin1952]

15. How many blankets could $40 mil have bought, or how many

meals?

$40 million...There should be not one child going to bed hungry, nor a child a preventable disease when inoculations are available. Not one families lights should have been turned off because they cold not afford the bill, and not one child should have gone to school, looking forward to the only meal they were going to get that day...:cry:

I am a Christian, and I am broke as shit. In fact, I am on the verge of being on the street myself. So I doubt I'll ever go to see this this travesty. But I can't complain, I'm working p/t, and will eventually get out of this mess. The economy sucks where I am, and I can't even get out of here to head back East. But, I'll get through this, it's a fight, but it's a good fight. I've had two bouts w/cancer, but I'm not complaining, so far remission is in the cards, so I'm not gonna complain.

What I am going to complain about is how these "church" people squander whatever good they could have done, on some frivolous fantasy. God IS science, the Laws of thermodynamics, gravity, energy are all Science, all part of what this universe is all about. I do not have the expertise to worry about the universe, but I can help where I can in my small corner...and that is what Christianity, and other religions are truly about...:)

[yella_dawg]

7. "No scientist was there to see the dinosaurs live through this"

There's nuthin to see when I eat boiled cabbage, either. But the evidence is hard to deny.

[BushOut06]

12. Yep, the scientific process kinda escapes them

Fundies probably wouldn't make very good forensic scientists.

[Johonny]

9. makes you ill

How people can waste so much time and energy to build... nothing.

[Mendocino]

10. P.T. Barnum proved right again.

"There's a sucker born every minute"

$20 for ages 13-59
$15 for seniors
$10 for ages 5-12
$5 or $6 extra for the planetarium

Creationism is true..the creation of profits.

[BlueJazz]

11. Oh Yeah??...Well, Mr Smartypants..Here's proof Dinosaurs and Man Lived.

[Az]

13. My favorite irony was always BC

After Hart got born again he became a full out young earth creationist and no longer believed that cavemen actually existed.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Maybe I'll stop by.

After I'm finished at the white noise library, and the inconvience store.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

16. A ready-made Daily Show segment

Stewart will have an easy time at work that day

[RobertSeattle]

17. I'll predict "Out of Business" Fall, 2008.

[SharonRB]

18. There is going to be a big protest by a group of people who believe

in evolution at the opening.

The husband of a friend of mine is a part of the group. He's not going down there, but I've been hearing about it. My friend has shown me the site -- it's pretty creepy.

[theHandpuppet]

19. Will Wilma and Fred show up with Bamm Bamm and Pebbles?

You can bet there will be plenty of public schools booking field trips to this so-called "museum". If you live within driving distance of Loonyland, make sure your kid doesn't end up on the bus.

[displacedtexan]

20. LOL! They blame Google Maps for "technical difficulties"

They can't even link to a simple Google Map page!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[WinkyDink]

21. It's a building, but it is not a museum.

[fencesitter]

22. They left the "N" out of this guy Mark's name

"Mark Looy, a founder of Answers in Genesis with its president, Ken Ham, said the ministry expected perhaps 250,000 visitors during the museum’s first year. In preparation Mr. Ham for 13 years has been overseeing 350 seminars annually about the truths of Genesis, which have been drawing thousands of acolytes. The organization’s magazine has 50,000 subscribers. The museum also says that it has 9,000 charter members and international contributors who have left the institution free of debt."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html?em&ex=1180238400&en=b95a574977c8d65a&ei=5087%0A

However, for a museum to have 9000 charter members and no debt upon opening is unheard of. There are hundreds of museums that could only wish this in their dreams.