Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction

gattaca writes "A small Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction. The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder. 'If it sells, well, then we can come another day,' Joe Taylor said. 'This is very important to our continuing.'" Meanwhile, the much larger Creation Museum in Kentucky that we discussed and toured when it opened last year seems to be thriving.

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Evolution is a theory too

[Anonymous Coward]

Hate to be the one to break it to y'all, but evolution is pretty much just a theory too. Theory as in, not fact. (My pastor has a really good explanation of this.) What makes it better than proposing Creationism?

Think about it.

Re:Evolution is a theory too

[stokessd]

All the substantiation behind it maybe? The fact that it doesn't break laws of thermodynamics etc.

If an all-powerful god can create all of life and everything, how do you explain cancer and the other flavors of suffering god's creatures are facing? If he's involved in the day to day, he's pretty nasty, our best hope is that he's an absentee landlord.

Sheldon

Re:Evolution is a theory too

[Entropius]

Think about it.

I have. Have you, or do you let your pastor think for you?

"Theory" is just a term for "scientific idea that has some measure of acceptance and support." The theory of evolution has a huge amount of support, and is tested every day.

Gotta love science

[styryx]

This XKCD followed by this one.

Creationsists: The universe doesn't care what you think.*


*Please follow that statement by imagining me pointing and laughing, derisively, at you; for at least several hours (e.g. hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...and so on).

Re:The Market Speaks!

[Archangel Michael]

"You have faith in something you cannot prove."

Pot, meet kettle. Evolution has evidence, but evidence does not equal proof. This is the problem with evolutionists, in that they've assigned evidence as proof, when it isn't. Additionally, they've discarded evidence that doesn't fit their model. It is rare, but it exists.

Creationist predictions

[PRMan]

>>Creationism makes no predictions.

This just simply isn't true. Creationists make predictions all the time, and they are often simpler, more accurate and require less precise asteroid collisions to make them true.

For example, in this paper, Dr. Humphreys makes predictions for the strengths of the magnetic fields for Uranus and Neptune, well before these magnetic fields were measured by the Voyager spacecraft. His predictions were "right on," whereas the predictions of evolutionists were not.

Article

Also, helium diffusion shows the earth to be 6000 years old. The levels of helium found by an evolutionist third party sent to an evolution-believing lab were correctly predicted by creationists, because they assumed that 6000 years worth of helium would have been lost.

Article

There is plenty of good science (repeatable experiments) being performed by incredibly intelligent people that would tend to disprove facets of the theory of evolution. Looking at all the evidence relating to a theory is what my science book described as good science.

Not looking at some of the evidence because you don't like it smacks of medieval "earth-is-flat" behavior. The last time we did that, it took us 1200 years to advance science. That period was called "The Dark Ages". The only difference is that it is now the scientific community that burns heretics at the stake of career ruination...

Re:Creationism in Europe?

[d3ac0n]

Stupid Trolls.

Jesus of Nazareth was not illiterate. According to passages in the Bible, and many Theologians and Historians, it is highly likely that he was not only literate, but bilingual;

He would have had to be able read the Torah in it's classical Hebrew. This was taught in all Jewish communities at the time, as all males had to be able to read from the Torah. There is also a passage in the Bible that describes Jesus standing and reading from the Torah in his local Synagogue, so we do have a written account of his Literacy.

In addition, there are several passages that describe Jesus preaching in public areas to large groups of mixed Jews and non-Jews. The common language of the day was Aramaic, and it is this language that Jesus likely spoke on an everyday basis. Again, there is written account of this, in addition to the very high likely-hood of this as per historians and other scholars.

Jesus was also not a "peasant". Keep in mind that Joseph, (Jesus' "father") was a Carpenter and, as per the culture and traditions of the time, Jesus would have learned this trade before beginning His ministry. Carpenters and other skilled tradesmen were the Middle Class of the day as they had a highly valued and difficult to learn skill. So Jesus was Middle Class, not poor.

So basically EVERYTHING in your statement is completely wrong.

Care to try again?