Re: [asa] Museum wldly successful at isleading the naive

OTOH, see this report on a visit to the "museum" -
http://scalzi.com:80/whatever/?p=121 .

Some will be "offended" by the scatological term used repeatedly there but
IMNHO if we can't use that word to describe something like this, we're in
trouble. & lest anybody think the word is being applied to Christianity,
the blogger says that what "I've been speaking of is not Christianity, it's
creationism, which to my mind is a teleological quirk substantially
unrelated to the grace one can achieve through Jesus Christ." (I think he
meant "theological" rather than "teleological.")

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Burgeson (Burgy)" <burgytwo@juno.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: [asa] Museum wldly successful at isleading the naive

A 60,000 square-foot museum that teaches about the literal six days of
Creation has proven to be more popular than expected, surpassing its
projected first-year attendance in less than six months since its opening.

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People enter and exit the new Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., Thursday,
May 24, 2007, during a tour for charter members.
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The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. welcomed its 250,000th visitor on
Friday, reported Ken Ham, founder of Answers of Genesis, the evangelical
group behind the $27 million facility.

"We praise the Lord for this," said Ham in his Nov. 3 blog entry on the
organization's website. "I still remember the mocking of certain people in
the secular world that the Museum would fail as people would not be
interested - and some in the Christian world who said it would be a white
elephant!"

Officials now expect nearly 400,000 people to come to the Cincinnati-area
museum by the year's end, reported The Courier-Journal. The museum averages
1,500 to 4,000 visitors per day.

Museum spokeswoman Melany Ethridge credited the positive response to the
dramatic exhibits and ongoing media interest from Europe and elsewhere.

Around 10,000 people have paid for year-round access but the museum still
relies partly on donations.

The facility opened on Memorial Day earlier this year amid protests and
petitions.

Museum visionaries had designed the anti-evolution exhibits to reflect their
belief in Young Earth creationism - a literal interpretation of Genesis that
claims the world is only 6,000 years old, dinosaurs appeared on the same day
God created other land animals, and geologic features such as the Grand
Canyon and fossils were created in a global flood during the time of Noah.

Non-Christians and Christians alike have criticized the way museum
organizers framed scientific evidence to support views attributed to the
Bible.

Others have praised the museum for representing their worldview of creation.

burgy

www.burgy.50megs.com

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