[meteorite-list] NEW 'NATURAL HISTORY" MUSEUM IS OPENING

From: Howard Steffic <bencubbin_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 05:27:14 -0600
Message-ID: <BAY127-F2255C23FE151D4DF35A117B7290_at_phx.gbl>

The earth is only 6000 years old? Sterling nearly speachless? What is
next? Mexico Doug typing a one line post to the list?


Howard Steffic





>From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
>To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: [meteorite-list] NEW 'NATURAL HISTORY" MUSEUM IS OPENING
>Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 20:33:11 -0500
>
>Hi, List,
>
> Yes, the entrance gates here are topped with metallic
>Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur
>standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports
>varied sauropods. It could be like any other natural history
>museum, luring families with the promise of exciting and
>educational dinosaur adventures, but it's the brand new
>$27 million Creation Museum's Grand Opening this very
>holiday weekend, on 28th of May.
>http://www.creationmuseum.org/
> Located within a day's drive of two-thirds of the US
>population in Petersburg, KY, near Cincinnati, interstates
>and an international airport.
>
> In the dioramas, two prehistoric children play near a
>gurgling waterfall, while dinosaurs cavort nearby. Dinosaurs
>are also seen boarding Noah's Ark. Outside the museum,
>scientists may assert that the universe is billions of years old
>and fossils are the remains of animals living hundreds of
>millions of years ago, that life's diversity is the result of
>evolution by natural selection, but inside the museum, no,
>the Earth is barely 6,000 years old and the dinosaurs were
>created on the sixth day of Creation.
>
> The Creation Museum makes extensive use of the latest
>in scientific technology to convince you that Science is
>A Lie, with high-tech displays and animatronic dinosaurs:
>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.creationist20may20,0,7993512.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
>Especially impressive, I'm told is the interactive exhibit that
>shows how The Flood cut the Grand Canyon. Who knew?
>
> So, if you know of any children whose minds you'd like
>to rot, what better place to take them on vacation? Here's a
>virtual walk-through on-line:
>http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/walkthrough/
>
> More news...
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6549595.stm
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/26/AR2007052600908.html
>
>http://uk.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUKN2621240720070526
>
> It does simplify some thorny issues. How old is this primitive
>achondrite? 6000 years. How old is the Sun? 6000 years. How old
>is the Universe? 6000 years. What's the maximum amount of time
>a meteorite can take to get to the Earth? 6000 years. Just fill in all
>the blanks with the same answer. How old is humanity? 6000 years.
>Dinosaurs? 6000 years. Single-celled life? 6000 years. See. it's
>easy... How long does it take photons to travel from the Big Bang
>to the Earth? 6000 years. See, nothing to it.
>
> I wonder if they've got a diorama where Adam wrastles The
>Raptor? That would be entertainment! I sure hope they've taken
>all the appropriate precautions to ensure those big animatronic
>dinosaurs don't escape their enclosures and eat the Christians.
>
> I'd say more, but I'm pretty much speechless. (Is that a first?)
>
>
>Sterling I. Webb
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