Creation Museum of Young Earth creationism

[Pawn Power]

The Creation Museum officially opened two days ago.

The museum is the latest endeavor of young earth creationist to counter the teaching of evolution. This 27 million dollar project displays a bizarre chorological arrangement of dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden to the Scopes Monkey trial.

Some things seem comical;

In one exhibit, a model triceratops is shown along with a stegosaurus, is shown aboard a scale model of Noah's Ark. from the wiki

The alarming shit;
In one video, a male teenager is shown sitting at a computer looking at internet pornography and a female teenager speaks with Planned Parenthood about having an abortion; both acts are blamed on their belief that the Earth is "millions of years" old. from the wiki

I don't know it we should be entertained or frightened.

wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum)

Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/05/23/arts/24w.creat.ss.7.jpg

Edit: The sub-title should read "man and dinosaur"

[la-troy]

Did not read the link(too lazy)

But if they are supporting the existence of dinosaurs they are weired. I have spent so many afternoons telling Christians that they don't follow their religion like their supposed . One of my favorite arguments is telling them that if the believe in dinosaurs they are committing blasphemy.

anyway, save me the trouble, how do they support their claim or tell me if they don't believe in them?

[freakazoid]

But if they are supporting the existence of dinosaurs they are weired.

You don't think that dinosaurs are real?

[Jazzratt]

I saw a webcomic which pretty much sums this up:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Jazzratt/20050104.jpg

Oh and freakazoid - the stupid belief is not in dinosaurs themselves but in man & dinosaur coexisting.

[Pawn Power]

Originally posted by [email protected] 31, 2007 01:55 pm
Those people should be locked up in the mental hospital.
That would amount to a lot of people. According to the wiki article I linked
...an ABC news poll was cited, indicating that despite educators' criticisms, a majority of the American public would agree with the Creation Museum. In the poll, it was stated that 60% of Americans believe that "God created the world in six days."[31] In a March 2007 Newsweek poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International 48% of respondents agreed with the statement "God created humans pretty much in the present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."[32]

[BurnTheOliveTree]

If you could somehow ensure that there was no one inside, would it be ethically permissible to bomb the museum? I mean seriously, that is a direct attack on reason. Why not retaliate?

-Alex

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by Pawn Power+June 01, 2007 10:39 pm--> (Pawn Power @ June 01, 2007 10:39 pm)
[email protected] 31, 2007 01:55 pm
Those people should be locked up in the mental hospital.
That would amount to a lot of people. According to the wiki article I linked
...an ABC news poll was cited, indicating that despite educators' criticisms, a majority of the American public would agree with the Creation Museum. In the poll, it was stated that 60% of Americans believe that "God created the world in six days."[31] In a March 2007 Newsweek poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International 48% of respondents agreed with the statement "God created humans pretty much in the present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."[32] [/b]
Excuse me while I weep for humanity :(

[RedAnarchist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 01, 2007 11:43 pm
If you could somehow ensure that there was no one inside, would it be ethically permissible to bomb the museum? I mean seriously, that is a direct attack on reason. Why not retaliate?

-Alex
Phone in a warning or something before you do it?

Seriously, this shows that religion still has too much of a grip on some people. We have to make sure that we oppose these religious nutters and ensure that noone is getting just their very warped side of the story.

[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Originally posted by [email protected] 01, 2007 10:43 pm
If you could somehow ensure that there was no one inside, would it be ethically permissible to bomb the museum? I mean seriously, that is a direct attack on reason. Why not retaliate?

-Alex
This is an attack on basic human decency, good taste, and science as a whole.

These people watch The Flintstones as if it were a documentary..

[redcannon]

i think its a silly idea altogether. no one, and i mean no one, will be convinced or converted. the only people who will visit that museam are people who already believe in creationism. So let them throw 25 million away, it would have gone to bible pamphets anyway.

besides, it is not immoral to torch this museum. actually, i wish there was a way to flood the whole damn building. that way we can say "wow, a great flood did rid the earth of evil" and laugh. :P
oh, the irony...