Yeah. Science lies. Believe this crap instead.
I learned this morning that the Creation Museum’s attendance exceeds expectations. I find this factoid distressing.
If you haven’t heard of the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum, consider yourself lucky. This bible-story-gone-wild uses exhibits to illustrate biblical explanations of the natural world. In doing so, it’s attracting thousands of Christian school students on field trips. From the Courier-Journal article:
Inside, the students learned from displays that, contrary to mainstream textbooks, science supports the Bible’s accounts of the Earth’s creation in six days; that the Grand Canyon was created suddenly in Noah’s flood; that dinosaurs and humans lived together; and that animal poison did not exist before Adam’s original sin.
This, as a “supplement” to science lessons.
My first exposure to the Creation Museum came from a John Scalzi photographic tour titled “A Visit to the Creation Museum, 11/10/07.” I clearly remember viewing the photos and great captions Scalzi put on Flickr; I was stuck at the FBO at Las Vegas McCarren Airport, waiting for a helicopter mechanic to replace my alternator belt, feet up, surfing on my laptop. It was the highlight of the day. Also quite enjoyable was Scalzi’s blog post, “Your Creation Museum Report.” It really got to the meat of the matter. I recall reading it, wondering how long it would be until the “museum” was laughed out of existence.
And then this report about its popularity, complete with stories of visits by school children as part of their science lessons. Those school groups make up 20 to 30 percent of the attendance.
Ouch.
Now my question is this: Of the 70 to 80 percent of other visitors, how many of them are visiting, like Scalzi did, to take in this spectacle of ignorance and close mindedness? How many of them want to see irrationally designed models and dioramas depicting impossible scenes from natural history? How many of them just go for a good laugh?
I hope that most of them do. The alternative — that people actually believe this crap — is too frightening to consider.
It’s bad enough that they’re exposing our children to it.
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“Spectacle of ignorance and close mindedness?” You’ve got to be kidding, right? The Creation Museum, which I’ve been to twice since it opened, isn’t ignorant or close-minded at all. It’s a fabulous piece of work that effectively meshes scientific knowledge and Biblical truth. Umm, after all, God is the One who “invented” every physical law and principle that science uncovers, so I would certainly expect that His Word would be fully aligned with the state-of-the-art in scientific knowledge.
Seems to me that only a point of view that was indeed “ignorant and close-minded” would call the museum by such terms. Maybe you should go check it out and see if there’s an open room somewhere in your mind after all : )
“Biblical Truth”? If that’s not an oxymoron, I don’t know what is.
Sorry, Martt. There’s nothing more for you here. Move along.
I’m definately with you on this one Maria. I just checked out the link and it’s baffling. It doesn’t say just that dinosaurs and humans were around the same time, but just 6000 years ago! Maybe when dinosaurs die they get teleported back in time millions of years. That would explain the incredibly old bones and fossils!