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A Field Trip To the Creation Museum
Lillith writes "The anti-evolution Creation Museum opened last weekend and Ars took a field trip there and took lots of pictures. 'There were posters explaining just how coal could be formed in a few weeks as opposed to over millions of years, and how rapidly the biblical flood would cover the earth, drowning all but a handful of living creatures. The flood plays a big part in the museum's attempt to explain away what we see as millions of years of natural processes. There was also an explanation as to why, with only one progenitor family, it wasn't considered incest for Adam and Eve's children to marry each other.' (Myself, I liked the picture of the velociraptor grazing peacefully next to Eve, who is wearing some kind of dirndl, in the Garden of Eden.)" The reporter posted more photos from the museum on Flickr.
This is total crap. But, if you really think about it, who's to say the universe and all that is in it was not created the moment before you read this post? It is faith either way, and impossible to prove completely. No one thinks like this anymore, always it has to be absolutes. And if God does exist, why not believe in Evolution as it fits with our observations about the world around us? Seems silly not to.
indeed... science concerns itself with figuring out what is factual... religion concerns itself with bullshit that cannot be supported in the slightest
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When the rest of y'all "sciency" types can explain ultimate origins of the universe in a fashion that is actually *gasp* scientific I will consider believing it. Hypotheses about ultimate origins are just as much religion as Christianity, Islam, Shintoism, et al.
Some of us are at least willing to accept that the ancient word translated "day" in Genesis has more possible translations than "a 24 hour period", and dinosaurs never walked among humans.
So then you're not really a Christian. You're a person who picked and chose a few things out of the bible to believe. You have determined that you know god's will better than the people who he chose to write his book.
So, seriously, these people are the real Christians. You are not. You have recognized that the bible is nonsense and disregarded it. The fact that you keep trying to believe bits and pieces and yet still claim that you're obeying god just makes you a faithless fool. At least the loony fundies are more honest about their faith than you are. Your faith is that god is a liar and a prankster otherwise he could have easily made the book sane, comprehensible and consistent. It's currently none of those things which is obviously a fact that you've recognized yet failed to deal with.
Quit blaming the fundies for actually trying to practice their faith and recognize that between you and them, they're much more faithful and you're just a heretic.
Yet Religion will NEVER be there
Irrelavent. Fix the evo house and forget about what *they* do. You sound like my children who are quick to point out when their sibblings F up but downplay their own faults. "Nah nwa, well, he did it tooooo, nwa".
Why does this concept trip up everybody here?
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