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Jason Spaceman
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 Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 11:10 am Post subject: Answers in creation: Who Created Heaven and Earth - and Whe |
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BY JOHN JOHNSTON
The Creation Museum that opens in Northern Kentucky next weekend is
built on this belief: God created the heavens and the Earth and all
living things in six consecutive 24-hour days, 6,000 years ago.
Which leads to this belief: Floodwaters carved the Grand Canyon in a
matter of days or weeks.
And to this: Dinosaurs and humans once co-existed. Indeed, museum
exhibits will show them sharing space on Noah's Ark.
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To believe any differently undermines biblical authority, say
supporters of Answers in Genesis. And so the nonprofit,
nondenominational ministry has constructed the $27 million museum to
save souls and persuade people to embrace its literal interpretation
of the Bible.
The ministry's claims that its views are backed by "real science"
positions the museum - the largest of its kind in the world - in the
center of a controversy that cuts across scientific and religious
lines.
"Everything science has taught us over the course of the last 200
years teaches us that this kind of literal, biblical, creationist
notion is misguided at best, and just plain false at worst," says Alan
Leshner, chief executive officer of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. The world's largest general scientific
society, it serves 10 million scientists and publishes the journal
Science.
Leshner is familiar with the Creation Museum.
"I believe in free speech," he says, "(but) I believe that people who
go into the public education business - and that's what museums do -
have an obligation to convey the most up-to-date and accurate
information that they can, not to try to persuade people to (accept) a
particular ideological belief."
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Josh Hayes
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: Re: Answers in creation: Who Created Heaven and Earth - and |
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"'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank" <lflank@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1179686716.064431.320160@z24g2000prd.googlegroups.com:
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Once most people DO find out what nutty things the creationists
believe --- and AiG's museum will help that process along --- it ain't
gonna do the fundies any good.
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I think this is probably true: I've been doing some interviews with
"evolution-doubters" as research for a novel I'm working on, and it's
astonishing how many of them waffle and wibble on the matter; here's one
(unattributed) quote that's typical:
"It's not that I'm a moron. I don't think the Earth is a few thousand years
old, or anything, but I just have my doubts about evolution."
My feeling is that it's not that "evolution-doubters" are dumb, or
thoughtless, or even inarticulate, but simply that they're ignorant about
the matter. They have this absurd straw-man view of what evolution is, and
they don't really seem to have ANY coherent view of what the alternatives
might be: all they know is that they don't like that darn straw man.
I'm with Lenny on this: I think they'll be equally put off by the yokel-
flavored stuff from AiG.
-JAH |
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