Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer

Aloriel writes to point out a story in the Guardian (UK) about the opening next year of the first Creationism museum in Kentucky, just over the Ohio border. From the article: "The Creation Museum — motto: 'Prepare to Believe!' — will be the first institution in the world whose contents, with the exception of a few turtles swimming in an artificial pond, are entirely fake. It is dedicated to the proposition that the account of the creation of the world in the Book of Genesis is completely correct... The museum is costing $25 million and all but $3 million has already been raised from private donations." A lot of that money is going into the animatronic dinosaurs, which are pictured as coexisting with modern humans before the Fall. According to the article, up to 50 million Americans believe this. The museum has a Web presence in the Answersingenesis.org site.

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Truthiness

[owlnation]

Excellent! A whole museum dedicated to Truthiness. I hope it's Wikiality page reflects just how truthy it really is.

For far too long now, museums have bored children with dry facts. It's about time we got them excited with far more exciting things that really sound true.

After all there's no way we want children to want to grow to be scientists - they're like terrorists...

Re:Yes a good one

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I see, so is this sort of sophistry supposed to shake a believer's faith?

I'm glad you went over to Wikipedia to look up Aquinas and Descartes. How about Jesus, Aristotle, the entire tradition of Judaism, and the Vedas?

While you're tilting at windmills, religion and religious practice continues to steamroll over your arguments. You see, your arguments don't make any sense in the context of an argument about supernatural beings. You're the Scully to all the Mulders in the world who aren't going to put aside their beliefs because you think that you can reason God out of existence.

No points for you. You don't even know what game you're playing.

Re:Karl Marx was right. (sigh)

[tomhudson]

... would they be doing this if they didn't believe? Then they're "good people." If they're doing it only because they believe, then even their own bible condemns their actions as being hollow.

I know, its "more complicated than that." But no, really, it isn't.

The whole chrisitian religion is as full of logical holes as any other one. For example:

1. fornicators are to be shunned
2. Mary was Joseph's wife, not God's
3. God is a fornicator and Jesus a bastard

And don't bring out the "God didn't have sex with that woman!" line. It didn't wash with Clinton and his blow job, it doesn't wash with God knocking up some teen-ager. Or is oral sex now not classified as sex in the New New New Revised King James Version For Pedophile Preachers?

Either:

1. God is a fornicator, and you worship the bastard whelp of a fornicator,
2. or God isn't a fornicator, in which case Jesus is not the son of God,
3. or there is no god

Now really, would you even trust someone who goes around cuckolding someone else, never mind worshiping them and their bastard kid? That's some opiate of the masses there - more like crack.

Note to kdawson:

[aquatone282]

Take this crap and post it on DailyKos or the Democratic Underground, but NOT HERE.

Asshole.

Re:In that case stop being tolerant of them

[gr18563]

It may be a fairy tale to you friend but I am a believer and its as real to me as your belief (or disbelief) is to you. I do not push my religion onto anyone. I will share my beliefs with others and we can discuss different views but I am not going to push antying onto anyone. All I can do is lead you to the water I cannot force you to drink it.