Re: Creation Museum's Attendance Exceeds Expectations By Far
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- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:30:55 GMT
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:12:41 -0400, "Steven L."
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Ye Old One wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:13:15 -0400, "Steven L."
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:01:00 -0400, "Steven L."A scam, or fraud, is defined as an intentional deception.
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June 10, 2009
Creation Museum's attendance exceeds expectations
Attendance of 720,000 exceeds expectations
PETERSBURG, Ky. -- A school bus hissed to a stop near a giant concrete
dinosaur perched outside the Creation Museum, a $27 million,
70,000-square-foot natural history museum-meets-Biblical theme park.
Three dozen middle school students tumbled out the doors, stretching
after the 113-mile drive from Westside Christian School in Indianapolis
for a field trip to augment their science lessons.
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.
"Creation makes more sense -- what's here just confirms it," said
seventh-grader Nick Johnson of Westside Christian.
Two years after its controversial opening, the Creation Museum has drawn
720,000 visitors, far more than the 250,000 annually organizers
predicted. It brought in $7 million in receipts last fiscal year, with
organizers saying it has had an economic impact of more than $20 million.
Along the way, it has become a popular science field trip destination
for Christian schools, religious and home-school groups and
public-school clubs. Students represent many of the museum's group
visitors, which make up roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of overall
attendance, officials said.
Several public schools have made the trip, museum officials said,
declining to identify them. Some public-school religious clubs from as
far as New Jersey have made the trip to a destination that continues to
draw international media attention, partly because of the ongoing
commemoration of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday.
Now, the museum is planning next year to expand its reach to young
people, including a "Knee High Museum" of interactive displays and
activities for young people. And it's increasing its reach by sending
representatives to meet with teachers at religious schools and planning
exhibits to counter Darwin's theory.
"Children should be exposed to alternative views," said Mark Looy, a
museum co-creator. "Where do you go to get an opposing view? To the
Creation Museum."
Fear of pseudo-science
Scientists and secular educators fear those students are being led
astray by pseudo-science that they say distorts accepted scientific
findings, including a fossil record that shows life becoming
progressively complex over billions of years. They also argue it fosters
a distrust of science.
"The poor students who go there thinking they will learn some science
are done a great disservice," said museum critic Lawrence Krauss, a
physicist who directs the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University.
The National Center for Science Education asserts that "students who
accept this material as scientifically valid are unlikely to succeed in
science courses at the college level."
Yet religious schools are flocking to the museum, including schools from
Louisville that view it as a valuable educational resource.
"It really helped supplement our curriculum" and "shed a lot of light"
on earth sciences, said Dan Delaney, principal of Louisville's Northside
Christian School, who objects to evolution "propaganda" in museums and
textbooks.
That opinion is shared by Ann Shively, high school principal at Evangel
Christian in Louisville. Shively said her school's visit last year
confirmed "there's just too much fact and research that goes to prove
that there's an intelligent design behind the universe."
The museum, which includes a digital planetarium, 150 exhibits and an
effects theater, is the work of Answers in Genesis, a conservative
religious group with a $24 million annual budget that is part of the
"young Earth" creationist movement.
They believe that the Bible's book of Genesis literally depicts how the
world was formed in six days.
As a result, they say that dinosaurs must have co-existed with humans
and that the story of the flood and the ark are true.
Creator Ken Ham, who started the ministry in his native Australia and
raised money to build the museum, says he uses "the same science" as
evolutionists, but interprets it differently.
Displays assert that genetics and archaeology had "confirmed" various
Biblical stories and that complex human organs couldn't have evolved
from simpler forms.
"Science tries to discredit God," said Della Davidson, a parent
accompanying Westside's field trip with her 12-year-old daughter, Kyla.
The museum "shows how God can discredit science."
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090610/NEWS01/906100383
Surely it is about time someone took legal action against this scam?
But Ken Ham really believes the message of his Museum.
That does not make it any less a scam.
There's no law against being incorrect.
When he promotes his scam as educational I think he is breaking laws
against false advertising.
Look, evolutionists like you and I have been saying for years that
creationism is religion.
It is.
As religion, it gets major protection under the First Amendment.
Does it?
You can't have it both ways.
Yes you can.
You can't simultaneously call creationism "religion" sometimes and a
"con" at other times.
All religion is a con.
The First Amendment protects any religious
belief, no matter how weird, from being expressed, regardless of whether
a fee is charged to hear that belief expressed.
No it does not.
To be a "con," it has to be an intentional deception.
Clearly it is.
An example of a
real "con" is Von Daniken's "ancient astronaut" theories. There's
plenty of evidence that Von Daniken is a confidence trickster who is
just out to make money.
And Ham is different in what way?
Ken Ham is not doing that.
Yes he is.
He thinks he's defending Christianity.
Creationism has nothing to do with christianity.
--
Bob.
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