What do you think about it? Should it be banned because it could mislead kids and they will eventully flunk science in college?
2007-08-09 15:04:06 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It shouldn't be banned. However, from a scientific standpoint, it shouldn't be taken any more seriously than Disneyland.
2007-08-09 15:06:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have heard about it...
I think it's nuts..
Unfortunately, the children who will flunk college science after seeing the Creation Museum are the same children who would flunk it even without seeing the museum..
The childrens who are indoctrinated enough to believe all they see in the Creation Museum will be indoctrinated with or without the museum.. Banning or forcibly shutting the Creation Museum down will simply cause lengthy and expensive lawsuits that will clog up further our already clogged legal system..
A much better option is simply waiting it out, the novelty will wear off and the venture will close down on it's own due to lack of funds soon enough..
2007-08-09 22:16:13 · answer #2 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have heard about it. No interest in going there, except perhaps if I went with a group from Americans United for Separation of Church & State. I think it is a money-making scheme by some rather cynical people claiming to be creationists in order to make money off suckers who will go there. They probably also own stock in local hotels and restaurants.
No, it should not be banned, because I believe in freedom. But I am concerned that kids raised on creationism are being poorly equipped to deal with a real university, and careers in science are almost entirely closed to them. It's not that they will flunk science, but that they will not even take science courses, and probably not even be admitted to college, except maybe a Bible college.
2007-08-09 22:11:57 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's attracting the usual crowd of inbreeders and folks who call each other 'Uncle Dad' ... these folks are Luddites and mouthbreathers who think the earth is only 6,000 years old and that man walked the earth with dinosaurs ... HOW can ya take people like that seriously? If they want to have 'intelligent design' (an oxymoron if ever there was one) taught in school, fine - just teach it as 'comparative religion', 'cuz it sure as hell ain't science. Science is based on observable, repeatable testing. Religion is based on faith and is above being questioned. Questions are what DRIVE science. If we want to screw ourselves real fast, let's just quit teaching things like acids, bases, and other things that are objectively provable and let the little kidlets from other countries that are 'godless' whip their collective asses in the real world. That's exactly what we're setting ourselves up to 'achieve'. The 'Creation Museum' is a monument to stupidity and the willing suspension of disbelief - just like when you enter the movie to watch 'Batman' and actually believe he can DO all that stuff. Same same - seemsayin', dawgz?
2007-08-09 22:13:46 · answer #4 · answered by chewtoy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a terrible thing to hold something a stupid as Creationism out as scientific and have a museum for it! Kids are vulnerable to the words of their parents and they 're going to think this is valid science. It frightens me to think of the state of education in this country when I consider all the dreck that is being force fed to children.
2007-08-09 22:12:57 · answer #5 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As Secretary General of the UN I was invited to attend the Opening Ceremonies, but for some reason when I walked through the front door smoke started coming out of my ears and I my skin began to melt. It must have been the awesome power of 'truth' coming out of there. Scary, scary stuff.
2007-08-09 22:08:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heard about it, donated to it.
Its not going to make kids flunk science in college.
I passed a course in Evolution in college with a "B" (Professor prided himself with "I make it impossible to get an "A" in this course").
It it were that easy to change people's thinking, my kids would have been atheists after I took them to the Museum of Natural History in NYC.
2007-08-10 07:55:01 · answer #7 · answered by Renata 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it should not be banned, because it is freedom of speech. College students can make their own decision and most would probably not flunk out because of this museum.
2007-08-09 22:08:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be sincere I believe is a nonsense place.
Why go there? The US is full of good Science Museums.
2007-08-09 22:09:03 · answer #9 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wanzanna. Do you let the kids judge for themselves about the delusions you foist upon them?
Not banned, questioner, but laughed out of existence.
2007-08-09 22:10:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋