I have another example for the need in our society of “militant secularists” who aggressively attack preposterous religious beliefs instead of just “letting them be…”
A “Creation Museum” is opening on Monday in Petersburg, Kentucky. The museum cost $27 million dollars and was built by the “Answers in Genesis” ministry.
By all accounts, the museum is beautiful with 60,000 square feet of exhibits that were created by Patrick Marsh, the same guy that created the “Jaws: and “King Kong” exhibits at Universal Studios in Florida. I have visited those exhibits in Florida and they are stunning to say the least.
The only problem with this stunning museum is that most of what it shows and teaches is based on un-truths and in essence, is trying to promote a fabrication.
As the name of the museum implies, the builders of this museum believe in the literal truth of the Bible; in this case the Book of Genesis, hence their name: Answers in Genesis Ministry.
They believe the earth is barely 6,000 years old and that humans and dinosaurs inhabited the earth together and were present in Noah’s Ark.
Their belief system is so outlandish that conservative Christians have a hard time defending it because to defend it would mean to deny all the hard scientific evidence gathered to date. May I remind you that some of these people are college graduates?
This would be funny if it was some kooky billionaire doing this but the organization that built this museum has 9,000 charter members and their magazine has 50,000 subscribers. The $27 million debt has already been paid off, in some cases by money from international sources.
We must remember that these people have children or even grandchildren and that these children are brainwashed into believing this utter nonsense.
We have freedom of speech and freedom of religion in this country so they have every right to believe what they want BUT we cannot let them get away with this nonsense without saying something!
In my previous arguments, I have maintained that religion fills in gaps in our knowledge base. Once science offers proofs to fill those gaps, religion is then replaced by facts.
Science does not know how the universe began. The “Big Bang” theory is plausible and probably correct but how the Big Bang occurred, why or if someone caused it to occur; here you can throw in a god of your choice.
But science does know how old the earth is, when modern man evolved and when dinosaurs lived and when they all became extinct – these are knowable and proven facts. To deny them is to deny reality.
Deniers of the Holocaust are ostracized and condemned; in Austria they can be jailed since it is against the law to deny the Holocaust ever occurred. The builders of the Creation Museum belong to a similar group of people and should be exposed for what they are; insane.
A “Creation Museum” is opening on Monday in Petersburg, Kentucky. The museum cost $27 million dollars and was built by the “Answers in Genesis” ministry.
By all accounts, the museum is beautiful with 60,000 square feet of exhibits that were created by Patrick Marsh, the same guy that created the “Jaws: and “King Kong” exhibits at Universal Studios in Florida. I have visited those exhibits in Florida and they are stunning to say the least.
The only problem with this stunning museum is that most of what it shows and teaches is based on un-truths and in essence, is trying to promote a fabrication.
As the name of the museum implies, the builders of this museum believe in the literal truth of the Bible; in this case the Book of Genesis, hence their name: Answers in Genesis Ministry.
They believe the earth is barely 6,000 years old and that humans and dinosaurs inhabited the earth together and were present in Noah’s Ark.
Their belief system is so outlandish that conservative Christians have a hard time defending it because to defend it would mean to deny all the hard scientific evidence gathered to date. May I remind you that some of these people are college graduates?
This would be funny if it was some kooky billionaire doing this but the organization that built this museum has 9,000 charter members and their magazine has 50,000 subscribers. The $27 million debt has already been paid off, in some cases by money from international sources.
We must remember that these people have children or even grandchildren and that these children are brainwashed into believing this utter nonsense.
We have freedom of speech and freedom of religion in this country so they have every right to believe what they want BUT we cannot let them get away with this nonsense without saying something!
In my previous arguments, I have maintained that religion fills in gaps in our knowledge base. Once science offers proofs to fill those gaps, religion is then replaced by facts.
Science does not know how the universe began. The “Big Bang” theory is plausible and probably correct but how the Big Bang occurred, why or if someone caused it to occur; here you can throw in a god of your choice.
But science does know how old the earth is, when modern man evolved and when dinosaurs lived and when they all became extinct – these are knowable and proven facts. To deny them is to deny reality.
Deniers of the Holocaust are ostracized and condemned; in Austria they can be jailed since it is against the law to deny the Holocaust ever occurred. The builders of the Creation Museum belong to a similar group of people and should be exposed for what they are; insane.
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