Here is the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070520/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticsreligion_070520222942
Nothing like teaching kids false information!!!!!!
2007-05-26 12:23:02 · 8 answers · asked by chris j 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Unfortunately, I think this will be a monument to future generations of the ignorant, anti-intellectual side of religion. It will have the opposite of the desired effect ... rather than attract people to religion, it will be the poster icon for religion as the path to scientific and rational absurdity. Thinking people will turn away from religion in embarassment ... which, IMO, is a bad day for religion.
It is unfortunate because religion doesn't have to be ignorant and simpleminded ... it can be profound and inspiring.
Where are the great religious thinkers? Where we use to have Thomas Aquinas or St. Augustine ... now we have Pat Robertson and Kent Hovind? Where we used to have great inspiring Cathedrals ... now we have museums built by "Answers In Genesis".
This museum will not affect science one bit.
But it is a sad day for religion.
2007-05-26 15:18:58 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If it did its job well, it could make a contribution to human knowledge and understanding. If it truly studied Genesis as literature written to a specific audience with a specific background and style, it could help clarify what the Bible does say and what it doesn't say, and reconcile it with what we know from science. Not all genealogies, even Biblical ones, list every generation. The main message of the Creation account is that God is the author of creation, not the details of how it was made and how it works. I think history will look back at this museum and compare come of its claims to the idea that the earth is the center of the solar system, and discover they are really not supported by the Bible. It will also see the flaws in some current evolutionary ideas, which were carried to extremes without evidence.
See the reference for the least biased, most balanced consideration I have ever found of these issues. The author is a renowned, respected scientist, head of the Human Genome Project.
2007-05-27 10:33:30 · answer #2 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a riot! I mean, dinosaurs on Noah's Ark, and if there is not enough room for all those extra animals, well there were babies -- why not walking eggs once they're at it?
I mean, that they so much insist that everything in the bible is 100% true, and that nothing that is true is not in the bible just boggles the mind. How can people be so stubbornly narrow minded?
At this rate, perhaps we should abandon the religious fundamentalists to their own fate, and avoid them entirely. In a few thousand years, the spiecies would diverge, we would improve, they would decay. Homo sapiens scientificus on one side and homo dumbus religious fanaticus on the other...
2007-05-26 19:35:46 · answer #3 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it seems to be part of a greater movement that promotes the idea that, since the earth will one day be razed by God, there is little need to preserve and maintain what is here now. So it is then imperative to use all resources to their fullest, maintain a "righteous" hatred of all other religions, including Muslims, and promote the idea that the rich are blessed and the poor are cursed.
Wow.
2007-05-26 22:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by Hooligan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1) Whatever supports religion supports religion.
2) Whatever ignores religion supports religion.
3) Whatever contradicts religion supports religion - test of faith!
4) Anybody who criticizes religion is thereby proven unfit to judge - and must be destroyed lest God be offended.
How can you argue with a belief system like that? In the whole of human history across the entire planet not one deity has volunteered Novocain. It is a telling omission. TEST OF FAITH!
2007-05-26 19:32:17 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I can only hope that the people who built it get old & sick, and when they go into the hospital are tended by doctors & nurses who believe they should treat their illnesses by reading them scripture. Nothing fails like prayer!
2007-05-26 20:48:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I, for one, think it's great. I would like to go see that museum.
2007-05-26 19:36:00 · answer #7 · answered by ♥MelissaMuffin♥ 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The it is our jobs to make sure that they learn the truth and learn to accept God and science as one and the same.
2007-05-26 19:31:26 · answer #8 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋