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

I larfed til I was horse!

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "John Burgeson (Burgy)" <burgytwo@juno.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:36 PM
Subject: 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.
>
> Enlarge this Image
> (Photo: AP Images / Ed Reinke, File)
> People enter and exit the new Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky.,
> Thursday, May 24, 2007, during a tour for charter members.
> Related
> Creation Museum Reports Strong First Month Attendance
> Interview: Creation Museum Founder on Evolution Clash
> 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
>
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> www.burgy.50megs.com
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