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Dinosaurs frolic with Adam and Eve at creationism museum
afp ^ | may 20, 2007 | Mira Oberman

Posted on 05/26/2007 4:48:47 PM PDT by celmak

PETERSBURG, United States (AFP) - Dinosaurs frolic with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and an animatronic Noah directs work on his Ark in a multimillion dollar creationism museum set to open next week in Kentucky.

Designed by the creator of the King Kong and Jaws exhibits at the Universal Studios theme park, the stunning 60,000 square foot (5,400 square-metre) facility is built for a specific purpose: refuting evolution and expanding the flock of believers in a literal interpretation of the Bible.

"You'll get people into a place like this that you can't get into a church with a stick of dynamite," said founder Ken Ham from his office overlooking the museum's manicured grounds.

Polls consistently show that nearly half of Americans believe God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago. Only about 13 percent believe God played no part in the origin of human life.

Ham does not blame evolution per se for society's ills. He believes that sin has been around since Adam and Eve took their fateful bite of apple about 5,700 years before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species."

But he says the theory of evolution has been used to undermine the validity of the literal truth of the Bible, heralding a dangerous age of moral relativism which can be blamed for everything from racism to the Holocaust.

Located just outside of Cincinnati near the intersection of the states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, nearly two thirds of the population of the United States lives within a 650-mile (1,050-kilometer) drive of the Creation Museum.

It is expected to draw at least 250,000 people a year when it opens on May 28.

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To: retMD

real science is not on the side of evolution. It is still only a theory.


41 posted on 05/26/2007 6:00:48 PM PDT by zwerni (it's the end of the world as we know it...)
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To: Nova
"Did the dinosaurs and mammals get along on Noah's ark or did they have to be separated?"

My guess is they were all infants so it wasn't a big deal.

42 posted on 05/26/2007 6:00:53 PM PDT by joebuck
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To: HitmanLV
Abortion is another case where both sides are driven by strong emotional reactions.

I do not know what you believe, but I can pretty much know what you beleive if you answer the following question:

When does human life begin and when is it entitled to life?

43 posted on 05/26/2007 6:03:48 PM PDT by celmak
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To: Coyoteman

You may laugh until you pass out sir!


44 posted on 05/26/2007 6:07:50 PM PDT by padre35 (we are surrounded that simplifies things-Chesty Puller)
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To: celmak

” You are the perfect example of the problem we have with kids coming out of public schools:

You can write something and they can’t read it...”

You’re the one who wrote that natural science museums are ‘fiction,’ but the wold depicted in The Flintstones was ‘real.’


45 posted on 05/26/2007 6:08:27 PM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
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To: zwerni
real science is not on the side of evolution. It is still only a theory.

What do think a theory is?

Does a theory grow up to be a law, or does increasing evidence "prove" a theory? Is a theory just a guess? An hypothesis? (Answer: none of the above.)

Read the definitions of scientific terms on my FR home page and maybe your comments will be more informed in the future.

46 posted on 05/26/2007 6:09:22 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: celmak

This sounds like a pretty dumb idea to me.


47 posted on 05/26/2007 6:12:06 PM PDT by Radix ( Honey, I shrunk our Carbon Footprint.)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
but the wold depicted in The Flintstones was ‘real.’

Public school, can't even hit spell check. LOL!

48 posted on 05/26/2007 6:12:26 PM PDT by celmak
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To: celmak

It’s an ambiguous question. I personally believe life begins at conception and that’s an interest the state can take a role in from that point. They are entitled to life from the point of conception.

Though I can see how a person can rationally look at the situation and come to a different conclusion - saying that life, and the entitlement to life, begins upon birth.

It’s ambiguous and a person can come to either conclusion rationally. The more dogged advocates on either side are driven by emotion, and can’t clearly see the point the other side is trying to make.


49 posted on 05/26/2007 6:14:44 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: celmak
I'll bet you can get one of these at the gift shop!

Mark

50 posted on 05/26/2007 6:19:04 PM PDT by MarkL (Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
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To: celmak

“Public school, can’t even hit spell check. LOL!”

World.

Typographical error. You picked on a finger slipping because responding to the point - that you believe that the WORLD represented by the Flintstones is real... but that Natural Science museums are all all fiction. I guess it’s even embarrassing to you.

My parents couldn’t afford to send me to private school. Maybe you went to one, but you obviously learned nothing there of either science or tact.

Flintstones... Meet the Flintstones... They’re the modern stone-age YEC family....


51 posted on 05/26/2007 6:19:53 PM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
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To: zwerni

real science is not on the side of evolution. It is still only a theory.

So is gravity. Maybe someone on this thread can point zwerni towards the comprehensive definition of terms that some helpful person used to post on crevo threads?

52 posted on 05/26/2007 6:20:12 PM PDT by retMD
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To: MarkL
I'll bet you can get one of these at the gift shop!

Public school Evo comeback. Yawn...

53 posted on 05/26/2007 6:22:07 PM PDT by celmak
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To: HitmanLV
It’s an ambiguous question... Though I can see how a person can rationally look at the situation and come to a different conclusion...

The question is direct, and so should be the answer; there is no ambiguity. And how can one rationalize not giving the right to life to a baby?

54 posted on 05/26/2007 6:27:35 PM PDT by celmak
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To: celmak
Public school, can't even hit spell check. LOL!

From your first comment:

Juat in case nobody posted it.

From post your #12:

Your right, those Evo's are pretty emotional:

From your post #43:

...I can pretty much know what you beleive if you answer the following question:

Now, what was that you were saying about public schools?

55 posted on 05/26/2007 6:29:01 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: celmak

It’s ambiguous enough that people can come to either conclusion rationally. If you simply can’t see that, you illustrate my point.


56 posted on 05/26/2007 6:29:07 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: U S Army EOD

and I thought I was a cynical realist ! ha. Good points.


57 posted on 05/26/2007 6:29:12 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
Flintstones... Meet the Flintstones... They’re the modern stone-age YEC family....

Read post 53. Goodbye (if you can).

58 posted on 05/26/2007 6:31:13 PM PDT by celmak
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To: padre35

Good open minded tolerant viewpoint you have there!
cute write up too.

thank God for America.


59 posted on 05/26/2007 6:31:20 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: retMD

I am heartened by the many voices of reason here.


60 posted on 05/26/2007 6:33:07 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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