Creation Museum a House of Cards Sitting on Old Old Earth Rocks

No I'm not. It's all very well going all dewy-eyed and Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto about them, but there are differences. For example, I wouldn't presume to teach others about a scientific subject without first having looked at a relevant textbook. I have spent what must amount to several working days this year alone looking up quotations and references to verify them. (Not just about evolution, I have other interests, but still.) I find out what my intellectual opponents think by reading what they have written, and criticize them accordingly. And so forth. There are subjects on which I may still be irrational --- who knows? --- but at least I am conscientious. This does, I think, make them inferior to me, because they have failed, not through want of reason, but through want of effort. Any man may be irrational now and then, but no-one is obliged to be habitually and systematically lazy.

What I was saying was along somewhat different lines. Taq said we should "take away their membership cards in the human race," referring to those unconvinced by the chalk evidence and the cliffs of Dover, but who among us has no beliefs untouchable by evidence? It could even be argued that our irrational side is a significant part of what makes us human. When it comes to turning in membership cards, if anyone should be asked to resign from the human race it should be those who are unfailingly coldly rational.Ignorance and irrationality should be fought at every practical opportunity, and especially when it's us, but we can't let our alliance here with the side that has all the evidence and knowledge lead us to a conceit that we're somehow better or more human than creationists. We might be more knowledgeable and rational about evolution and about science in general, we may even be more knowledgeable and rational in general, but nothing of significance separates the humanity of evolutionists and creationists.--Percy

Another one trick dog and pony showFile not found Can anyone explain why there would be an A-10 Warthog on the roof? And ... we can assume ... ignore any evidence that calls such belief into question, such as the evidence that the earth is much older than any YEC model ... And so we have a "museum" dedicated to perpetuating a KNOWN fraud\hoax ... no different than Carl Baugh and the Creation "Museum" Paluxy "human" footprints hoax. But the lack of any formal training doesn't stop him from thinking he can put together a museum and comment on the science involved ... after all he is interested in ... (wait for it) ... Somehow I don't think any scientists, or even scientifically literate people will be beating a path to this new mecca of self delusion.Enjoy

Yup, another "not for profit" purveyor of truth.I am curious as to what the caption says for the mastodon skull. If you have dinosaurs and humans co-existing, then certainly mastodons lived much more recently. Maybe it says "Perhaps your great, great, great grandfather used one of these for transportation."You missed some good quotes that I found quite funny.

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Curator Stan Lutz said that's what distinguishes his from other creationism museums.

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"That's something other creationists don't do: They don't put science up," he said.

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Oh that's funny. I bet Ham and Hovind will be upset to find out their museums don't "put up science."Another one about the Ica Stones:

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The stones continue to find supporters among those who claim their existence reinforces the "ancient alien" theory that extraterrestrials guided human development, those who believe the stones were crafted by residents of the lost continent of Atlantis, and young-earth proponents.

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All about equally valid "theories." My guess is there are a few reasons. 1) He simply had one available for some reason, probably from a donor, 2) it would attract kids and 3) it will be used as a symbol of what "real science" can accomplish.HBD

You mean not everyone has an A-10 in their garage?

It's an experiment: It will demonstrate that a storm can't build one.

Technically, he's right --- the Ica stones are the most compelling evidence for creationism.

There is GOLD in them thar Biblical Christian and Creationist pockets.

I thought it was because the people most likely to be Creationist are also the same people that think they need to be armed to the teeth so they can overthrow the government when it becomes corrupt.Them A-10s got a big-ass gun:

Maybe it's like one of those signs you put in your yard that says, "This property protected by ..."

Muscular Jesus.

Eww...

I wondered if it weren't preparation for the 'end of times' great battle ...

Kind of makes me wonder how many hole-in-the-wall pocket museums there are ... I know of another along the route I normally take into Maine ...http://www.examiner.com/article/creation-museum-maineA quick google gave mehttp://creationministriesoftheozarks.com/...o-tour-of-museum(what a hoot pile of whooey)Boneyard Creation Museum Broken Bow, NEWhich looks like it has based exhibits on many well known PRATTS ... and is that large "skeleton" t-rex based on a cardboard cut-out kit?http://creationstudies.org/museum.htmlAnd what these "museums" seem to be most concerned with - desperate - is showing that SCIENCE supports the bible ... but that they know the TRUTH that is somehow ignored in real museums.A quick look exposes them as loaded with ludicrous misinformation and wishful thinking.But I'm sure the gullible are easily enthralled ...... and remain ignorant of the evidence for an old earth, or the absenceEnjoy.