Is the Earth flat in the ‘Creation’ Museum?

[blueinindiana]

[shenmue]

Doesn't seem to be

Don't know how they're going to get around the mystery of "light years." :crazy:

[Liberal Veteran]

5. God created streams of photons billions of light years long to fool infidels!

:D

[Ilsa]

1. LOL.No, but the Sun does revolve around the Earth there.

I heard the end of the interview on NPR this morning and this other Assault on Reason. Their objective is to convert nonbelievers to christianity and convince them that evolution is not real and evil. Geez, let their kids all be stupid about science and see how far they'll go. They'll all be preachers and youth ministers and never have the capacity to do anything scientific.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Probably.

Fucking morons.

[Maat]

3. Hey, those are my fundie relatives you're insulting!

HeeHee - Husband now handles the intra-familial communication ever since they're being 'born again' about five years ago.

(This post entirely in jest. My hubby's favorite saying, "If I can get you to believe that the Earth is only six thousand years old, and that the Apatosaurus roamed with the cavepeople, I can get you to believe ANYTHING!)

;)

P.S. They are trying to get me to let my ten-year-old go back there and visit for a week .... I'm afraid she's too busy.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Yeah, that's really weird. I mean, I just wonder if it's a complete failure of critical thinking.

"The Earth is 6,000 years old because the Bible SEZ SO! Besides, if it was any older, everything would be covered with cobwebs and shit. Hey, is my bratwurst ready?"

My favorite part of the whole "Creation Museum" deal, though, is how much Pooh-bah Ken Ham:



Looks like Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes:



Methinks he doth protest too much.

[Maat]

HeeHee.

He does look like Dr. Zaius. The resemblance is amazing!

Looking at this topic with certain relatives in mind, I think, as a Master's in Psych., that it has to do with the model that John Dean cited in his book, "Conservatives Without Conscience." He talks about authoritarians, defining them as people who tend to look at the world and 'right and wrong' in a fairly rigid manner, and who agree with being OBEDIENT to authority. He's talking about the FOLLOWERS, for he refers to the social dominators as ... well ... 'social dominators.' That's why I enjoy the model so much. The description really fits those I have in mind!

Critical thinking, to them, would involve DEFIANCE of THE LAWS (of morality, on the books, whatever).

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Really, I always thought he looked more like Cornelius.

[rasputin1952]

7. No where near as flat as the books will show...I figure there is

zero profit, or even break even for this sojuorn into the macabre...

[question everything]

8. Humans and dinosaurs co-exist at the same time

latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-round24may24,1,7795619.story

From the Los Angeles Times
EDITORIAL
Yabba-dabba science
Note to would-be Creation Museum visitors: the Earth is round.

May 24, 2007

THE CREATION MUSEUM, a $27-million tourist attraction promoting earth science theories that were popular when Columbus set sail, opens near Cincinnati on Memorial Day. So before the first visitor risks succumbing to the museum's animatronic balderdash — dinosaurs and humans actually coexisted! the Grand Canyon was carved by the great flood described in Genesis! — we'd like to clear up a few things: "The Flintstones" is a cartoon, not a documentary. Fred and Wilma? Those woolly mammoth vacuum cleaners? All make-believe.

Science is under assault, and that calls for bold truths. Here's another: The Earth is round.

The museum, a 60,000-square-foot menace to 21st century scientific advancement, is the handiwork of Answers in Genesis, a leader in the "young Earth" movement. Young Earthers believe the world is about 6,000 years old, as opposed to the 4.5 billion years estimated by the world's credible scientific community. This would be risible if anti-evolution forces were confined to a lunatic fringe, but they are not. Witness the recent revelation that three of the Republican candidates for president do not believe in evolution. Three men seeking to lead the last superpower on Earth reject the scientific consensus on cosmology, thermonuclear dynamics, geology and biology, believing instead that Bamm-Bamm and Dino played together.

Religion and science can coexist. That the Earth is billions of years old is a fact. How the universe came into being and whether it operates by design are matters of faith. The problem is that people who deny science in one realm are unlikely to embrace it in another. Those who cannot accept that climate change may have caused the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago probably don't put much stock in the fact that today it poses grave peril to the Earth as we know it.

Last year, the White House attempted to muzzle NASA's top climatologist after he called for urgent action on global warming, and a presidential appointee in the agency's press office chastised a contractor for mentioning the Big Bang without including the word "theory." The press liaison reportedly wrote in an e-mail: "This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue. And I would hate to think that young people would only be getting one-half of this debate from NASA." With the opening of the Creation Museum, young people will be getting another side of the story. Too bad it starts with "Yabba-dabba-doo!"

[BlooInBloo]

9. Locally.

[krispos42]

10. Of course it is

Here's an artist's rendering, based the most advanced scientific theories postulated by Sumerian academics: