Re: A Creationist Museum of "Unnatural" History

On Sun, 27 May 2007 10:28:54 -0400, Alan Lichtenstein <arl@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim Higgins wrote:

Alan Lichtenstein wrote:

Jim Higgins wrote:

High Miles wrote:

Jim Higgins wrote:

Sue wrote:

On May 26, 6:42 am, Ken <flakey...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Opens this weekend, not in Kansas where one might assume such idiocy
would be accepted, but in Kentucky, so religious stupidity really is
contagious

The Creation Museum, opening May 28, 2007, presents a "walk through
history." (Yeah Right!)
The Creationists have collected money to build a 'natural' history
museum.
The Museum will proclaim to the world that the Bible is the supreme
authority in all matters of faith and practice and in every area it
touches on. This 'walk through history' museum will be a wonderful
(and yet completely based on fantasy presented as "The Truth")
alternative to the evolutionary natural history museums that are
turning countless minds against the gospel of Christ and the
authority
of the Scripture.

And what should further outrage the thinking public, it's directed
toward warping kids developing minds with pseudo-scientific BS,
murals
and "realistic" scenery, computer-generated visual effects, over
fifty
exotic animals, life-sized people and dinosaur animatronics,
(Someone
has watched way too many episodes of the Flintstones) and a special-
effects theater complete with misty sea breezes and rumbling seats.

JFC..I wanna puke!........Ken




A Gallup poll last year showed almost half of Americans believe that
humans did not evolve but were created by God in their present form
within the last 10,000 years. (Any wonder now why America's stature
has taken such a beating through out the rest of the World?)

Three of 10 Republican presidential candidates said in a recent
debate
that they did not believe in evolution. (Oh Great! You mean
American might elect ANOTHER MORON?)

Scientists, secularists and moderate Christians have pledged to
protest the museum's public opening on Monday. An airplane trailing a
"Thou Shalt Not Lie" banner buzzed overhead during the museum's
opening news conference. (At least there are some Americans who
can
still think for themselves)

Sue


And you have a lock on the Truth, evolution rules?



Let the fundis have their fables.
Just keep it out of our government.



Remember, it is called the *theory* of evolution-not fact.


Wrong. Evolution IS a fact. It has occurred. What is a theory is
the mechanism by which it has occurred. Darwin proposed one, others
proposed others. The preponderance of the evidence indicates that
Darwin's theory was closer to the actual process than others, because
Darwin's theory explained virtually everything we observed, while the
others had significant lapses. So the other theories were discarded
in favor od Darwin's. Apparently you don't know how science uses
theory and what it does and does not do.


<shrug>

As I said, apparently you don't know what a theory is or what it does.
Based on your response above, are we to now add that you don't care to know?

Alan, you are wasting your time. If someone believes there is a
source of truth that always trumps scientific observations, and relies
on that in such an argument, so far as that person is concerned the
question is settled once and for all.

Creationists rely on scriptures for the account of how the earth began
and deduce its age also from that source.

If one does not accept these scriptures as a valid source of
scientific information, rather than as a collection of writings by
folks a long time ago who wrote in a rather fanciful way, you will
never understand where the anti-evolutionists are coming from

If you do understand that, then you will always be frustrated in
discussions with them.

While evolution is not necessarily at odds with religion, witnessed
by the fact that the major religious sects accept the theory in
general, some groups simply do not because they hold the Bible is
the authoritative source of all knowledge, scientific or otherwise.
An acceptance of evolution does not preclude a belief that some
higher power set the whole chain in motion -- people can believe that
and still accept that evolution has occurred along the lines
scientists have found. They don't see a problem. But some reject
science entirely, and they are the folks who simply are not
interested in looking at the evidence.
.

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