Should the creation museum be legally challenged for defrauding the public?

Question

I have little doubt that the exhibits could be shown to be incorrect according to the evidence of science, and I suspect that there may be some historical misrepresentations as well. Is this reason enough to ask for an action of law to protect the public? Are the museum owners allowed to make blatantly false claims and profit from them under the law?

Biblically, thew museum exhibits and claims may or may not be a good interpretative representation and that could be ignored or forgiven either way, but the creation museum is making claims that are clearly damaging to the representations of established knowledge outside of the bible. They're "selling lies" as if they were true..... and I wondering if they could be held accountable for this in a court of law.

What do you say... ?

Answer 1

Religion has been selling their lies for hundreds of years. All the believers pay for the right to stay ignorant too!. The only thing they are doing is damaging themselves, engulfing their minds in stupidity and serfdom. Hopefully, if they get out of hand the scientific community will go after them. Tyson does a video on you tube about the whole thing. He is quite good and makes them look pretty stupid.

They get dismissed constantly with their ridiculous books and ideas, you remember Dover? and the Kansas cases.

Answer 2

Yes . I think they should be like "professional Wrestling" which has to state ( in some places) that this is a show , entertainment , performance ( or such ) and is not a sport or competition . The Creation Museum should have to put a sign outside saying "The things portryed in this exhibit can not be scientifically validated and some are patently false .
Peace Yo . That may be true for adults over 21 . But children could be misled and confused .

Cheezy ... are you dumb or just a troll ?
Scientists ( real ones ) have disproved that the single cell needed to be created . You can't teach that nonsense in public school because it was proven to be a religious belief and not science .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10545387/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/

Why did life evolve here and not on six other planets (out of trillions we haven't yet explored ) ? For the same reasons mosquitos exist around stagnent ponds ... the conditions are right . Haven't you studied ANY science or biology ? Put down that Bible Cheezy !

Spibbles ... are you kidding ! ! !
From wikipedia :

"The Creation Museum is a 60,000 square foot museum in the United States designed to promote young Earth creationism. The museum presents an account of the origins of the universe, life, mankind, and man's early history according to a literal reading of the book of Genesis. Its exhibits reject evolution and assert that the earth and all of its life forms were created in 6 days just 6000 years ago and that man and dinosaurs once coexisted.[1][2] These views disagree with well in excess of 99% of the scientists in relevant fields.[3][4] Also, the museum exhibits are at odds with the vast majority of scientists who accept that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, and that the dinosaurs became extinct 65.5 million years before human beings arose.[5] The museum has generated criticism by the scientific community, several groups of educators, Christian groups opposed to young Earth creationism, and in the general press.[6][7][8][9] ."
Isn't "well in excess of 99%" good enough for you lol .
No ? Then check out my links to Intelligent Design on Trial (above) .
Science is discovery and proof . Creationism is not . even the founder of the museum admits that .
“If the Bible is the word of God, and its history really is true, that’s our presupposition or axiom, and we are starting there,” museum founder Ken Ham said during recent tour of the sleek and modern facility, which is due to open next year.
Ham, an Australian native who started the Christian publishing company Answers in Genesis in the late 1970s, said the goal of his privately funded museum is to change minds and rebut the scientific point of view.
For generations, paleontologists have shown that dinosaurs and humans never trod the Earth at the same time, that in fact with the exception of birds (modern-day dinosaurs), they never got within 60 million years of each other on the timeline of natural history. Not so, says Looy [Ham's partner] . "They all had to exist at the same time because they were all made on the same day. There may not be any fossil evidence showing dinosaurs and people in the same place at the same time. But it is clearly written that they were alive at the same time."
You know what is really sad ? That 80% of the people in the USA are equally divided over the creation vs. evolution issue ! ( the other 20% don't know what to think .) In the USA our math , reading comprehension , and science scores are well below the rest of the civilized world . It is a shame !
Lets hear the presidential canidates talk about that ! The student who attend "Prep" type high schools are up there in grades but the public schools are disgraceful for the most part .

Answer 3

Unfortunately, unless you can change the makeup of the Supreme Court, you have no chance of winning that battle. This is the court that declared Foxnews has the Constitutional Right to LIE in their newscasts and to FORCE their newscasters to KNOWINGLY lie or be fired.
I don't think they're going to hold the Creation Museum accountable for defrauding the public.

Good luck, though.

Answer 4

I like the idea.

This is the kinda craziness that drives people away from Christianity, and that's a problem if Christianity wants to endure the next few generations.

Answer 5

Are you a troll, or just very silly?

Why don't you explain precisely how the exhibits "could be shown to be incorrect", rather than just saying that you "have little doubt" that they could be? If you think they could be, on what grounds do you base that belief? Do you really know anything about it at all?

Answer 6

That's just like Christianity defrauding the public. give the public more credit people with good sense know it's just nonsense all in fun.

Answer 7

Eh. Let 'em be ~ the whole freedom of speech thing ya know. We get freedom of speech in return.

They aren't duping anyone in my opinion. People who visit that museum go with an opinion on creation prior to walking in the door.

Answer 8

Is the Disney Magic Kingdom also defrauding the kids and the parents?

Free society.
: )

Answer 9

Mr. R. U. Randy:

I happen to be someone who believes fully and completely the Biblical account of creation and I have no belief in an evolutionary theory that is full of holes. It is quite strange to think that this nation built and founded on Christian Godly principles resulting in God blessing it to become one of the greatest nations to ever exist only to see the people rise up consume these blessing and curse the giver. I think you better be prepared one day to give an answer for your ingratitude.

Scientist have stated that the cell, the single cell is such a vast complex work that there is no way in multiple trillions by billions of chances that it can occur by chance, as evolutonist proclaim that it just happened.

If life did occur by chance on this planet, then why not other planets, not only are they void of intelligent life they have no life, not a cell, bacterium, plant anything, just a dead planet.

I think instead that your evolutionary big bang fantasies should be stamped "FICTION" and placed in a comic book section. Its unbelievable that they teach this in schools, most of the teacher dont believe in it any how.

Turn to God, stop allowing yourself to be force fed lies and, awake and see the truth.

Answer 10

In a word, no. Free speech rights allow this.

I'm not fond of their misrepresentations; but, it's not illegal.

Caveat emptor.