Creationism Museum: "Human Reason is the enemy and God’s Word is the hero" Christian's don't believe reason?!!

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The full quote:
Early in the museum, the visitor is given advice on the proper mind frame to have for your visit: “Don’t think, just listen and believe”. [..] Human Reason is the enemy and God’s Word is the hero. Descartes represents Human Reason, saying “I think, therefore I am”. But God tells us there no need to waste your beautiful mind, for God says “I am that I am”.

If Christians don't put any value on mans amazing ability to reason (something God would have designed, correct?) how can any reasonable person take their claims seriously? The claim is as good as saying that although we use reason via forensics to determine the past, we cannot use reason to determine our history! How could any person who stands behind this belief think they can be taken seriously? People who don't reason are classified as 'insane', which is defined by someone who is unable to learn (which you need reason for) from repetitive mistakes. How can any of the bible even be argued, cuz that requires reason!

@Ihalmiut BUT YOU JUST USED REASON! You reasoned that wisdom is flawed in understanding God and fear in God is therefore correct. You can't use reason to reason that you shouldn't use reason!!!

@LibertyX You are REASONING your belief with that passage. Again, you cannot escape the fact you reason in everything you do! If A, then B!

@Earl D - Science doesn't always stick with something as true because it is always changing with what is known as true. Science doesn't assume it has all of the answers so at times it is forced to abandon some theories in favor of a truth for fitting of the facts. Besides, the classification of a planet is arbitrary, it's an average of what we have seen and know SO FAR. The difference being when more facts are available, the whole picture changes to accept that understanding.

Answer 1

Human widsom fails. The wisdom of God doesn't. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

Answer 2

yes, They believe that HUMAN reason has no place in any god fearing country. They spend a lot of money to keep people confused with mindless rhetoric about science and what is real and what is not. I do think that some conservative do learn the art of lying to push the agenda for backward learning. The emperors new clothes needs to be require learning so people will quit listening to the likes of people that created the Answers in Genesis creation Museum. If God is all powerful and his word the trruth how could any reason be it enemy anyway?

Answer 3

Regardless of your reasoning (get it?), which is solid, I must say a few things. First, the thought of man saddling a T-Rex is just too funny. Come on, you know your curiosity would have gotten the better of you if you were Adam. Also, the thought of a white Adam and Eve being magically created in what is now Africa (generally considered the birthplace of mankind) or the Middle East (if you think it was present-day Iraq) is equally funny. Imagine the sun screen they would have had to use. Finally, the model ark must be enormous! Or did they decide that there were only eighty types of animals and that god used his mystical, magical, powerful Green Lantern ring to split them up later?

Answer 4

This is an attitude in christianity that goes waaay back, at least as far back as Martin Luther. I have a whole collection of quotes from him referring to reason as the enemy of faith. I don't have access to it at the moment, but a google search should reveal exactly what I'm talking about. This is really what it's all about, a war between reason and unreason.

Answer 5

Not only is that arguement used by religious people, but also by New Age people.

If you distort your view of reality to the point of hallucinating and beleiving that your dreams are messages from galactic confederacies and the random events are indirect messages from God, you somehow become more enlightened and comprehend the universe better.
No wonder they want to spread the messages around. It's the same with religion and conspiracy theories.

Answer 6

"Human" reason is flawed by man's humanity. Therefore, in his limited wisdom, man makes errors. It is in the inability to seek beyond human reason and understanding that mankind loses sight of the infinite possibilities and reality that exists. You want to learn from repetitive mistakes, BUT if you are incapable of recognizing mistakes you will not learn from them.
Your mistake here is getting caught up in the reasoning task itself...and not the final outcome.

Answer 7

That is a very strange quote indeed. God himself said in Isaiah 1, "Come and let us reason together."

Answer 8

"For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

I Corinthians 1:19

Answer 9

Well IS or IS NOT Pluto a planet!

Science can't seem to stick to one opinon.

That's the problem with science, it's fickle!

Answer 10

From the very beginning, Christian mythology has hated and rejected the fruit from the tree of knowledge.