It is a measure of the Creation Museum's daring that dinosaurs and fossils -- once considered major challenges to belief in the Bible's creation story -- are central to the narrative of early human orgins, appearing not as tests of faith, as one religious authority once surmised, but as creatures no different from the giraffes and cats that still walk the earth. Fossils, the museum teaches, are no older than Noah's flood; in fact dinosaurs were on the ark. ( New York Times)
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Two- By- Two, for T-Rex Too
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Posted on: May 25, 2007 1:15 PM, by EJGili
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Can you tell me what "religious authority" said that dinosaurs and fossils were tests of faith? Thanks.
Posted by: sbh | May 25, 2007 02:56 PM
So that explains why there are no unicorns. The T-Rex ate them!
Posted by: bigTom | May 25, 2007 04:03 PM
The article did say "appearing not as tests of faith"...,
All of this argument is so amusing to me. Practically no one seems to grasp the significance of living in the Now.
Part of the dilemma is the museum’s unwavering insistence on belief in the literal truth of biblical accounts. If it works for them though then let them be. Atheists trying to convince other's of no god are only pushing thousands to draw closer to their God.
As for the bible being literal, while there are simple statements that need no interpretation in the bible, there are many other writings that should not be taken literally.
Posted by: Sound | May 25, 2007 06:49 PM
Whilst searching for news about the one in Kentucky, I found this Reuters report of another one, opening next week, in Alberta, Canada. It sounds like it's will just as funny (and sad); e.g., it will apparently have "a set of English scrolls tracing the family of King Henry VI back to the Garden of Eden".
Posted by: blf | May 29, 2007 03:46 PM
If it works for them though then let them be.
I think most of us would be more inclined to "let them be" if they weren't actively pushing their fairy tales as SCIENCE in public schools and confusing adults and children alike on what science is and what it isn't (eg their inaccurate use and abuse of the word "theory").
Responsible adults can't just sit idly while anti-science religionists poison science understanding and education in the public discourse. The balance in the media is bad enough. Imagine if scientists did nothing to stop it.
Posted by: Megamoze | May 30, 2007 03:36 AM