Yabba-dabba science
Note to would-be Creation Museum visitors: the Earth is round.
May 24, 2007
THE CREATION MUSEUM, a $27-million tourist attraction promoting earth science theories that were popular when Columbus set sail, opens near Cincinnati on Memorial Day. So before the first visitor risks succumbing to the museum's animatronic balderdash — dinosaurs and humans actually coexisted! the Grand Canyon was carved by the great flood described in Genesis! — we'd like to clear up a few things: "The Flintstones" is a cartoon, not a documentary. Fred and Wilma? Those woolly mammoth vacuum cleaners? All make-believe.
Science is under assault, and that calls for bold truths. Here's another: The Earth is round.
The museum, a 60,000-square-foot menace to 21st century scientific advancement, is the handiwork of Answers in Genesis, a leader in the "young Earth" movement. Young Earthers believe the world is about 6,000 years old, as opposed to the 4.5 billion years estimated by the world's credible scientific community. This would be risible if anti-evolution forces were confined to a lunatic fringe, but they are not. Witness the recent revelation that three of the Republican candidates for president do not believe in evolution. Three men seeking to lead the last superpower on Earth reject the scientific consensus on cosmology, thermonuclear dynamics, geology and biology, believing instead that Bamm-Bamm and Dino played together.
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your bias is showing
Just because someone rejects evolution does not mean they believe in creation, a young earth or even in God. Evolution is based on faith just like creationism. Science by definition is something that can be tested, repeated and observed which leaves out creation and evolution. Lets all face the facts, when it comes to origins, its all about what you believe. Key word BELIEVE.
My bias ALWAYS shows
Someone that rejects evolution is an idiot.
Why do they reject evolution
is it on scientific grounds? Blind faith has nothing to do with confidence in a rigorously tested theory or acceptance of a proven hypothesis.
Evolution has been tested for 100+ years.
Accepting evolution would
Accepting evolution would force them to question a number of things they absolutely need to believe (at least they absolutely need to believe that they absolutely need to believe them).
There are some folks I can't talk to. Those that lead with nonsense and expect me to take it seriously
...are at the top of that list.