The Enquirer has been covering the upcoming opening of a $27 million "creation museum" in Petersburg, KY, dedicated to showing all visitors the literal truth of the Bible. You know, that the earth is 6,000 years old, God created it in 6 days, and Noah had dinosaurs on the ark.
Say what?
Sorry, I missed that part in Genesis. But we all know raptors sell, so this "museum" will have a huge flock of animatronic dinos to amuse the kiddies. Oh, and educate the kiddies. This is science, after all. Um, except we must remember that "no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record."
These folks are performing the most amazing contortions to fit snippets of scientific fact -- like the inconvenient (but highly profitable) existence of dinosaurs and the Grand Canyon, among other things -- into their religious views. This is nostalgia for the good old days... emphasis on "old." The 8th century, perhaps?
3 comments:
Mindboggling, thanks for that ....enlightening post!
Renee -
Jay P from WFF here.
I have been enjoying reading your blog.
Regarding the Creationists:
I once read much of Ashley Montagu's _Science & Creationism_ (0195032535) for a course. I recommend it to you. It is surprisingly engaging.
It is so very hard for me to even begin to imagine the mindset of the people who are putting together this museum. I am reminded of a part in the S&C book where it says that among the ways in which the 6000-year-crowd addresses the overwhelming implications of the fossil record are a) the great flood churned up the fossils, therefore their layers are not a useful guide to chronology [let's ignore the facts that the sequencing in the layers is consistent around the globe and that it is fairly orderly in an evolutionary sort of way]; b) there never were dinosaurs .... their fossils are a "joke" of God; c) the fossil record was put in the rocks by God as a test for our faith.
I just don't start to get it.
Enjoy the Spring. I am looking forward to the N. "Lemon Glow" that you once recommended to me. I think that I have at least a couple dozen of them. They are special, indeed, and each year they make me think of you!
Hi Jay! So nice to hear from you. So glad you enjoy 'Lemon Glow' as much as I do. We're well into tulip time here.
Re: creationists. I think the "b" or "c" explanations would at least be more intellectually honest than pretending Noah had dinos onboard. I'd almost like to visit this museum for chuckles, but I don't think I want to seem to endorse their nonsensical views.
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