Ky. Creation Museum opens to thousands

[babylonsister]

Just - ugh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/creation_museum_opening;_ylt=AnI1LqcNG8hB.SekXAGRg8HMWM0F


Ky. Creation Museum opens to thousands

Tue May 29, 5:06 PM ET

PETERSBURG, Ky. - A museum that tells the Bible's version of Earth's history — that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago — attracted thousands to its opening as protesters rallied outside.

The dozens of demonstrators argued Monday that the Creation Museum's central tenets conflict with scientific evidence that the Earth is several billion years old. Overhead, an airplane pulled a banner with the message: "Thou Shalt Not Lie."

The privately funded museum had more than 4,000 guests on opening day, said Mark Looy, a co-founder of the $27 million facility 20 miles southwest of Cincinnati. The parking lot was filled with license plates from dozens of states.

"The guests were very happy with the museum experience," Looy said. "Of course, we had some naysayers come through and engage us in conversation, and that's fine — we want them."

Lawrence Krauss, an author and physicist at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, decided to view the museum firsthand.

"It's really impressive — and it really gives the impression that they're talking about science at some point," Krauss said. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being best, "I'd give it a 4 for technology, 5 for propaganda. As for content, I'd give it a negative 5."

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[TwilightGardener]

1. I should go. I've always liked science fiction.

[MindPilot]

4. Certainly more fiction than science in this case. n/t

[sharp_stick]

2. And in two months it will be bankrupt

just like it's predecessor in Florida. What was the name of that place? I think the guy that ran it had some nutjob dinosaurs walking with man story and is in some big financial trouble now.

[Scooter24]

8. I believe this museum

has the dino's on the ark with Noah.

[LeftyMom]

9. Oh, you mean Kent "Dr Dino" Hovind's place?

He's in jail for $800,000 of back taxes. :D

[Hersheygirl]

3. You almost gotta feel sorry them,

Note: I said almost. Just think how 27 million dollars could have really done some good, like homes and food.

[muntrv]

5. Sounds like a good place for a Star Trek convention. They love sci-fi.

[tularetom]

6. Remember Ned Flander's Jesus Theme Park?

[ComerPerro]

7. Well, that's about all the attendance that museum will ever get. A few thousand fundie freaks

[dflprincess]

10. Oh I don't know

a couple friends and I took a road trip to Kentucky last summer - if this had been open we might have checked it out for the laughs (and I would have wanted pictures to report back to DU about it). Though, with our attitudes we may not have made it out alive, and it might have been hard to actually pay these nuts so we could see the place.

[ComerPerro]

14. true, the novelty aspect of it

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Are dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible?

The entire museum is supposedly based on the Bible. Does the Bible mention dinosaurs? If the Bible leaves them out, why do creationists then admit them at all and why include giant animatronic dinosaurs in the museum exhibits? And if creationists admit that dinosaurs existed, based on the fossil record no doubt, why not admit that earlier and more primitive races of mankind existed as well? Or do creationists admit that Australopithecus, Homo Erectus, Neanderthal, etc. existed?

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Most that would say "yes" point to the "Behemoth" mentioned in Job 40:15

References to Behemoth (probably a four legged Dinosaur)
Job 40:15-24 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares. (or Will any take him in his sight, or, bore his nose with a gin?}

Seems like an Elephant to me, but there you go.

Here is the nice, anti-science website i got that from;
http://www.sixdaycreation.com/facts/dinosaurs/nov2001.html

[Initech]

12. Whoever had the "Thou Shalt Not Lie" sign... BRILLIANT!!!

[IDemo]

15. Sadly, they just announced it's closing after only seven days

;)