Creationist Museum in the US?

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Just seen this on the BBc website and wondered other peoples thoughts on it...Creationist Museum I cant decide what I think...

Looks an interesting place to visit. I'm not a creationist, although I'm a Christian. I don't believe God created the world how its described in Genesis, but I think its a beautiful illustration of God's gifts to us in Creation.

I've just put a powerpoint presentation of the 6 days of Creation for a piece of coursework I'm doing, using photos I've taken and the relevant passages from Genesis. It's really made me appreciate what we have, and to look for the beauty in all of creation.

scareeee. i was listening to a piece on radio 4 while driving yesterday. i lived in Kentucky where it is located. many people out there hold creationist beliefs. one girl doing History 101 (a requirement course for all First years at Uni over there) said she failed the first test because she didn't believe in evolution and all that sort of thing.

i just sat there slack-jawed, thinking 'wow, people like that exist! and i am living among them!'

Oh for heaven's sake, dinosaurs in the ark? (Deliberate pun.) I suspect the leading proponents of creationism are having a laugh. Or on a mission to identify the most stupid people on the planet.

Kids would like the thought of a velociraptor in the ark though

lol, there should be a flat earth museum

There WAS a flat earth museum, but attendance kept falling off...

(sorry, terrible joke!)

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As a Christian (and a fairly evangelical one at that) I find it scarey too! Cant see any trouble with God creating a living, changing, evolving universe at the big bang, personally, though in the US I may well be thrown out of many churches for such a thought.
I wonder often at which stop below 'sensible' some people's brains got off at!! I'm at a faily conservative Christian College doing a theology degree and amongst over 200 sturents have found one that believes in 7 day creationism. Thank God (literally!!!) that it is not a mainstream bleif in the UK.

what a load of bollocks!

It's beyond ridicule. They want their beliefs given "equal status" to evolutionary science? Then submit them to the same evidence-based, peer-reviewed scrutiny as all scientific theories.

UnquietDad - well you sort of expressed the same sentiment as me only much more eloquentley.

Ken Ham is a funny guy. Magnificent facial hair.

here is something a creationist said on radio 4.

that before adam and eve all animals were vegetarians which is how they explain an exhibit where a child is playing in a stream with a dinosaur with huge meat eating teeth nearby.

and that bears are also vegetarians but have huge meat eating teeth too. uhm, most bears are omnivores? and tell that to a polar bear?

and the adam and eve tale doesn't explain why the T Rex didn't eat everything in the ark. lol.

Or why the woodworm didn't EAT the ark

well, there were only two of them... They narrate the opening chapter of Julian Barnes' "History of the World"... very good book!

I love professor steve steve!

I think creationism weakens christianity - the implication is that unless everything in the bible can be proved to have actually happened, any ideas in the bible are worthless. Its completely bonkers.

Meanwhile, I have a theory that the reason that this kind of thing is so popular in America is that the kind of people who settled in America were the kind of people who could believe the unbelieveable and be sustained by it, otherwise they would never have got there, and they passed this 'belief' gene onto their children. On the other hand, the existance of the list of Steves proves that there are quite a few normal people too!

And if they were vegitarians why the teeth?

Did God just like the Carnivore Look?

And if they were all veggie, why do people find two different kinds of fossilised turds (coprolites)? floppy veggie dino turds, and more compact carnivore dino turds?

apparently, the existence of bananas proves the existence of God, and the validity of Creationism. the atheist's nightmare

I'm with those who see Creationism as inconsistent with Christianity.
If you look at the process described, it's clear that God blunders around with more power than sense, and every so often trashes a large chunk of his work then starts again.
Also, God has cunningly made the world look old to deceive us.
Thus we see a stupid, dishonest God. That may be true for all I know, but ain't Christianity.

But the inner logic of Creationism although again distinct from Christianity, is rather like how many Christians view the education of kids.

The term used time and again for Creationism in schools is "comfort". Many Christians who don't believe in Creationism want their kids to believe in it to stop them asking awkward questions, and knowing things they don't want their kids to know.