Re: Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don't Mesh

Jason Spaceman <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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From the article:
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------ PETERSBURG, Ky. ? Tamaki Sato was confused by the dinosaur
exhibit. The placards described the various dinosaurs as originating
from different geological periods ? the stegosaurus from the Upper
Jurassic, the heterodontosaurus from the Lower Jurassic, the
velociraptor from the Upper Cretaceous ? yet in each case, the date of
demise was the same: around 2348 B.C.

?I was just curious why,? said Dr. Sato, a professor of geology from
Tokyo Gakugei University in Japan.

For paleontologists like Dr. Sato, layers of bedrock represent an
accumulation over hundreds of millions of years, and the Lower
Jurassic is much older than the Upper Cretaceous.

But here in the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky, Earth and the
universe are just over 6,000 years old, created in six days by God.
The museum preaches, ?Same facts, different conclusions? and is
unequivocal in viewing paleontological and geological data in light of
a literal reading of the Bible.

In the creationist interpretation, the layers were laid down in one
event ? the worldwide flood when God wiped the land clean except for
the creatures on Noah?s ark ? and these dinosaurs died in 2348 B.C.,
the year of the flood.

?That?s one thing I learned,? Dr. Sato said.

The worlds of academic paleontology and creationism rarely collide,
but the former paid a visit to the latter last Wednesday. The
University of Cincinnati was hosting the North American
Paleontological Convention, where scientists presented their latest
research at the frontiers of the ancient past. In a break from the
lectures, about 70 of the attendees boarded school buses for a field
trip to the Creation Museum, on the other side of the Ohio River.
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Read it at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30muse.html?_r=1
&ref=science&
pagewanted=all or http://tinyurl.com/lhn6f4

Dang. If I had known, I would have bought stock in the company that
makes those bags the airlines provide for you to puke into.

Chris

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