2008 Woodie Awards
Opinion: Like Reagan said, "Facts are stupid things"
Adam Jones
Issue date: 10/14/07 Section: Commentary
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A fully engaging sensory experience for guests: murals and realistic scenery, computer-generated visual effects, over fifty exotic animals, life-sized people and dinosaur animatronics, and a special-effects theater complete with misty sea breezes and rumbling seats.
The Creation Museum presents a "walk through history." Designed by a former Universal Studios exhibit director, this state-of-the-art 60,000 square foot museum brings the Bible to life.
No, it's not a theme park or entertainment complex, but a "true" scientific/biblical museum, devoted to the same topics as any other natural history museum.
Inside this building are themes concerning biblical stories such as the Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, and Jonah, Jesus' Second Coming, apostasy, and Martin Luther. Also inside: a huge dinosaur, a replica of part of Noah's ark (life-sized), and a timeline presentation of how the world was made 6,000 years ago. Yes, indeed, fact "meets" fiction as when one gazes at the giant dinosaur eating leaves while two young children play underneath its bulk.
Yes, citizens, the people who created this museum want you to believe, despite such evidence as the fossil record and carbon dating, common sense and intellect, that our world used to be a scene out of the Flintstones. The $27 million Creation Museum, which opened in May near Cincinnati, created by Answers in Genesis ministry, follows the logic (or illogic) of Creation science.
Creation science is the attempt to find scientific evidence that would justify the literal interpretation of the Biblical account of creation. By the way, for those of you who are curious, Creation science is not science at all; science is actually is a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method and an organized body of knowledge gained through research, unlike the methods used to infer Creationism.
This means, by the way, that Noah really did make an ark that held every single species of creature and plant now on the earth, since creationists do not believe in evolution either. Oh, and one other thing, 1.7 million species now exist on Earth according to National Wildlife Magazine. This does not include the approximately 700 dinosaur species recorded by the US Geological Survey, which according to Creationists were also aboard the Ark.
This museum brings to mind one Buckner Payne, who in 1867 wrote a pamphlet arguing that African Americans were subhuman, and validated his thesis by quoting the Bible and spattering it with scientific fact, creating a controversy known as the Ariel War.
What does all this mean? I'll leave it up to you to debate with whomever you want, but to me several things come to mind. Delusion, ignorance, arrogance, closed-mindedness, and as Voltaire once said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. "
On a parting note, what did Moses call his dinosaur that he rode during the rodeo? A bronco-saurus.
Adam Jones is a junior at IUPUI majoring in religious and international studies.
The Creation Museum presents a "walk through history." Designed by a former Universal Studios exhibit director, this state-of-the-art 60,000 square foot museum brings the Bible to life.
No, it's not a theme park or entertainment complex, but a "true" scientific/biblical museum, devoted to the same topics as any other natural history museum.
Inside this building are themes concerning biblical stories such as the Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, and Jonah, Jesus' Second Coming, apostasy, and Martin Luther. Also inside: a huge dinosaur, a replica of part of Noah's ark (life-sized), and a timeline presentation of how the world was made 6,000 years ago. Yes, indeed, fact "meets" fiction as when one gazes at the giant dinosaur eating leaves while two young children play underneath its bulk.
Yes, citizens, the people who created this museum want you to believe, despite such evidence as the fossil record and carbon dating, common sense and intellect, that our world used to be a scene out of the Flintstones. The $27 million Creation Museum, which opened in May near Cincinnati, created by Answers in Genesis ministry, follows the logic (or illogic) of Creation science.
Creation science is the attempt to find scientific evidence that would justify the literal interpretation of the Biblical account of creation. By the way, for those of you who are curious, Creation science is not science at all; science is actually is a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method and an organized body of knowledge gained through research, unlike the methods used to infer Creationism.
This means, by the way, that Noah really did make an ark that held every single species of creature and plant now on the earth, since creationists do not believe in evolution either. Oh, and one other thing, 1.7 million species now exist on Earth according to National Wildlife Magazine. This does not include the approximately 700 dinosaur species recorded by the US Geological Survey, which according to Creationists were also aboard the Ark.
This museum brings to mind one Buckner Payne, who in 1867 wrote a pamphlet arguing that African Americans were subhuman, and validated his thesis by quoting the Bible and spattering it with scientific fact, creating a controversy known as the Ariel War.
What does all this mean? I'll leave it up to you to debate with whomever you want, but to me several things come to mind. Delusion, ignorance, arrogance, closed-mindedness, and as Voltaire once said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. "
On a parting note, what did Moses call his dinosaur that he rode during the rodeo? A bronco-saurus.
Adam Jones is a junior at IUPUI majoring in religious and international studies.
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