What do you think of the creation museum to open in 2007?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060801/ap_on_sc/creation_museum

Answer 1

I'm so happy that it's so close - it's in my home state of Kentucky! I'm going to try to go as soon as it opens. Seems most "scientists" are so evolution-biased that this stuff never gets a look.

Answer 2

I am a christian who believes in evolution, and I see a problem with it.

The problem I have is with Pious fraud, deception, and outright lies. There was a previous Creation Museum founded by Kent Hovind. Kent Hovind is a fraudulently credentialed "scientist," wacko conspiracy theorist, tax evader, creationist whose "science" is so weak that even Ken Ham and his Answers In Genesis colleagues have distanced themselves from him.

Ham's Creation Museum will be filled with the obviously phony claims that the earth is 6,000 years old, dinosaurs and humans coexisted, that there was a global flood which destroyed all land animals other than those on the Arc, that the world was repopulated with those animals, that humans lived to be 900 years old, and that all earth life was formed at once by a miraculous act of God without any prior predecessors. Ham's museum will then attempt to present a scientific argument to support these views, and just like with Hovind's museum, this evidence will have to be twisted and manipulated into an unrecognisable shape to make what should be empirical observations fit a preconceived theory.

Unlike Hovind's museum, Ham will present "evidence" that is equally false, but not as obvious. The arguments will be equally fallacious and unsound. People who are sympathetic will be fooled, as will those who simply won't take the time, for whatever reason, to objectively analyse what he presents to them. Unfortunately, most people simply don't have enough of a background or basic understanding of what real science is to recognise when creationist hoaxsters are LYING to them.

The truly unfortunate thing is that the lessons of the bible are no less important if they are not literal, but these lessons get buried in the rubble of their arguments. Further, it actually CAUSES some people to doubt their faith in Jesus and the bible, when the "science" they present is exposed, and the audience that trusts these supposedly born again christians to be honest with them are found to be dishonest.

The creationist argument is, "Believe in the bible literally, as we do, or you can't be saved."

This is equal folly as some who believe only in science and nothing about the bible.

There is nothing wrong with believing in both, as long as you know the proper limitations of each.

But you can bet that Ham and his backers will make a LOT of money off of the mislead, gullible, trusting folks that actually believe there is substance to his presentations.

I have a big problem with supposed Brothers and Sisters in Christ who intentionally and knowingly mislead their congregations. Pious fraud is still fraud.

Answer 3

I'm an evolutionist and I see no problem with this. If we're allowed to display our ideas and theories to the world, why can't creationists? I wouldn't mind checking this museum out, either. Never hurts to keep an open mind about these things.

Answer 4

i think that it is a senseless waste of money. complete ****.