Posted on 05/26/2007 9:24:34 AM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
Some Scientists Worry That Sophisticated Center Will Distort Children's Views of Science
According to an ABC News poll, 60 percent of Americans believe God created the world in six days. In Petersburg, Ky., this weekend, a creation museum is opening that depicts a story far from what you may have learned in science class.
Exhibits at almost every natural history museum teach that dinosaurs are millions of years old, and that they died out long before human beings existed. But at the Creation Museum, they say God created dinosaurs and humans at the same time.
The Creation Museum, designed by the same man behind some of the attractions at Universal Studios in Florida, is a $27 million, high-tech sensory experience with animatronic dinosaurs and a movie theater with seats that shake.
The museum is intended to convince visitors that evolution is wrong and that the biblical story of life on earth from Adam and Eve to Noah's ark is scientifically verifiable.
The museum depicts Adam living with animals, including a dinosaur.
Ken Ham, the president of Answers in Genesis, the group that is funding the museum, says that only "secular scientists" would maintain that the first humans never lived with dinosaurs.
"[Scientists] can say that, but what's their evidence?" Ham says, insisting that "All land animals were made on day six."
Mainstream scientists worry that because the museum is so technically sophisticated, it could be effective in giving children a distorted view of science.
"That they'll show up in classrooms and say, 'Gee, Mrs. Brown, I went to this spiffy museum last summer and they say that everything you're teaching me is a lie,'" said Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education.
Ham believes that's what should happen.
"And I say, great. Amen. That's what this place is all about," he said. "It's meant to challenge people."
The stakes are high. The museum argues that evolution jeopardizes people's belief in the Bible and leads to social ills like pornography and abortion.
"In an evolutionary world view, why should you have things like absolute morality? Why would it be wrong to kill someone?" said Jason Lisle, of Answers in Genesis. "I'm not saying that evolutionists aren't moral. I'm saying they have no reason to be moral."
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We have as much real evidence for a global Flood as we do for Evolution!
At least they should have the right to marry.
I know enough about it to know that it is a fact that the evolutionists have to assume that the dates on the RadioCarbon dating are not being affected by changes that came from a Global Flood.
All dating by Evolutionists is made to fit their own evolutionary paradigm.
And all evolutionists are honest-LOL!
Stop the smearing and deal with the issues.
Now, lets get down to the essential issue, either God is impossible or Evolution is.
Both views are faith based.
Amen.
Yes, I believe every word in the Bible is true and I believe the King James Bible is that perfect Bible in English.
You have already admitted that you were ignorant in the technicalities of dating, so give it a rest.
Well, one of us is believing in a fairy tale, either God's creation or Evolution, where nature' is the 'creator'.
Now, the problem is, where did 'nature' come from in the first place?
>>Yes, I believe every word in the Bible is true and I believe the King James Bible is that perfect Bible in English.<<
Here is where God made the animals after he made Adam.
18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Well, no, my explaination comes from Genesis 1:1.
But your explaination is as good as any Evolutionist can come up with!
Just throw in some species becoming other, more complex species.
Why are you limiting the powers of God? Could not God be controlling evolution?
Repeat: There is NO archeological or geological evidence for your flood. NOTHING in ancient Chinese or Egyptian history to indicate such a catastrophe.
Since you claim there is no evidence for evolution, you are saying that there is no evidence for the flood.
Here is where God made the animals after he made Adam. 18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 19: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Do you now want to discuss Bible issues?
This was the naming process and those animals were created specifically to be named.
The animal creation had already been created, Adam and the woman being last-each according to its own kind
You will note that the woman was created, not from the ground, but from Adam, and then was named.
Are you admitting that there is no evidence for Evolution?
No, God does not work through evolution.
Each creature reproduces according to its own kind.
It is either God or evolution.
I am not limiting God's power, I am going by what He said.
You have already admitted that you were ignorant in the technicalities of dating, so give it a rest.
Stop your lying.
The 'technicalities' have nothing to do with the assumptions and you know it.
Stop trying to blow smoke.
I know enough about it to know that the Flood would have affected the dating.
Just like other factors affect the dating.
The way you all are talkin’ it’s hard to tell who’s who in this “discussion”.
There is so much not known by either those who argue “evolutionism” or “creationism”. Most of this argument by “evolutionist scientists” is for the purpose of demonstrating to the rest of us that there is no God. Most of the “creationist” argument is to say that their intrepretation of Biblical passages is absolutely the “correct” interpretation. In most of these arguments it becomes clear that neither side knows much. God knows...let’s let Him sort it out. And btw, there is little or no real science in any of the arguments that I see, read on the subject.
The Bible says that a day is coming when the Lion and the Lamb will lie down together; will that day also see the creationist and the evolutionist also finally coming together?
No. But you claimed there was no evidence for the flood.
Repeat. There is NO archeological or geological evidence of the flood.
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