Re: God's Theme Park - Kentucky Creation Museum

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On Monday, April 2, 2012 9:15:48 PM UTC-5, Santim Vah wrote:
> America’s Protestant pastors overwhelmingly reject the theory of
> evolution and are evenly split on whether the earth is 6,000 years
> old, according to a survey released Monday by the Southern Baptist
> Convention.
> When asked if “God used evolution to create people,” 73% of pastors
> disagreed – 64% said they strongly disagreed – compared to 12% who
> said they agree. Asked whether the earth is approximately 6,000 years
> old, 46% agreed, compared to 43% who disagreed. A movement called
> Young Earth creationism promotes the 6,000-year-old figure, arguing
> that it is rooted in the Bible. Scientists say the earth is about 4.5
> billion years old.
> http://kozmedia.com/survey-says-u-s-pastors-reject-evolution-theory/227489/
>
>
> Young Earth Creationism, sometimes abbreviated YEC,[1] is a form of
> creationism which holds that the earth and the universe are
> approximately 6,000 years old.
> http://www.conservapedia.com/Young_Earth_Creationism
>
> Although the book of Genesis does not mention any specific creation
> date, the 4004 BCE date of creation upheld by young Earth creationists
> was calculated by the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher,[2]
> in 1658 and John Lightfoot in 1644.[3] These chronologies involve
> meticulously tracing the lineages recounted in the Bible (including
> Noah's supposed 900 years) back to known time, and compared Middle
> Eastern, biblical and Mediterranean sources to come up with the
> surprisingly exact date of October 23, 4004 BCE. At 9:00 in the
> morning, EST.
> http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
>
> Young Earth creationism (YEC) is the religious belief[1] that the
> Universe, Earth, and all life on Earth were created by direct acts of
> the Abrahamic God during a relatively short period, sometime between
> 5,700 and 10,000 years ago.[2] Its primary adherents are Christians
> and Jews[3] who believe that God created the Earth in six 24-hour
> days, taking what they regard to be a literal interpretation of the
> Genesis creation narrative as a basis for their beliefs.[4][5]
> The scientific consensus, supported by a 2006 statement by 68 national
> and international science academies, is that it is evidence-based fact
> derived from observations and experiments in multiple scientific
> disciplines that the universe has existed for around 13 billion years,
> that the Earth was formed about 4.5 billion years ago with life first
> appearing at least 2.5 billion years ago.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
>
> The young earth creationism perspective is the result of a plain, or
> historical-grammatical reading of the description of the early earth
> in the Bible, or the Islamic Qur'an, which both contain nearly
> parallel accounts of a six-day creation, Adam and Eve in the garden of
> Eden, and Noah's flood. For purposes that are clear, the Christian
> interpretation will be built upon and described.
> Integral aspects of the Young Earth Creationist position include
> creation in six days (encompassing everything from the beginning of
> the universe to the appearance of man), and the global flood of Noah's
> time (as the fossil-bearing sediments laid down by the flood account
> for most of the geological column). Young earth creation scientists
> also believe that the first law of thermodynamics and second law of
> thermodynamics argue against an eternal universe and they also claim
> that these laws point to the universe being supernaturally created.
> http://www.nwcreation.net/ageyoung.html
>
>
> The Creation Museum is a museum near Petersburg, Kentucky that
> presents an account of the origins of the universe, life, mankind, and
> man's early history according to a literal, young earth creationist
> perspective of the Book of Genesis. The museum has been criticized by
> scientific and academic communities as promoting "fallacy over fact"
> and attempting to advance the tenets of a particular religious view
> while rejecting, overlooking and misconstruing scientific knowledge.
> Its exhibits reject universal common descent and biological evolution,
> and assert that the Earth and all of its life forms were created 6,000
> years ago over a six-day period.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum
>
>
> An Australian and his $17 million Creation Museum are creating
> controversy in the United States.
>
> Ken Ham, a former science teacher from Queensland, has devoted his
> life to preaching the ‘creation story’… that God created the world
> 6,000 years ago.
>
> Now tens of thousands of true believers flock to his high-tech
> Hollywood-style museum in Kentucky each year. The animatronic displays
> bring alive everything from the Garden of Eden to the history of
> dinosaurs.
>
> But Ham’s increasing popularity and his unequivocal preaching rile an
> increasingly vocal band of atheists, who believe more in Charles
> Darwin than Adam and Eve.
>
> WATCH - See their heated clash in David Brill’s colourful story.
>
> REPLAY - As well as speaking to Professor PZ Myers at the Texas
> Freethought Convention
> video/text - mini doco
> http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/601409/n/God-s-Theme-Park
>
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>
>
> According to a Newsweek poll done in march of 2007: Only 13% of
> Americans believe in naturalistic evolution (that is that God had no
> part in evolution)
>
> However, 48% of Americans believe that God created "humans pretty much
> in the present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so"
>
> Why would a politician criticise or attack someones view when it
> lines up with about 78% of Americans?
> http://collegepolitico.hubpages.com/hub/Poll-Most-Americans-Dont-Believe-Evolution
>
>
> Overview: The Conflict Between Religion and Evolution
> ANALYSIS February 4, 2009
> http://www.pewforum.org/Science-and-Bioethics/Overview-The-Conflict-Between-Religion-and-Evolution.aspx
>
>
> For more than two decades, the National Center for Science Education
> has been opposing efforts by creationists to weaken or block the
> teaching of evolution. This section of our website offers articles
> about anti-evolution creationist movements, critiques of creationist
> writings, and collections of materials on the leading lawsuits over
> efforts to teach creationism or to undermine the teaching of evolution
> in public schools.
> http://ncse.com/creationism
>
> The Latest Polls on Creationism and Evolution
> http://ncse.com/rncse/24/5/latest-polls-creationism-evolution
>
> Science and Nature - multiple poll results
> http://www.pollingreport.com/science.htm
>
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>
>
>
> There is this strange and troubling creature called an authoritarian—
> usually conservative, usually a religious fundamentalist, and very
> closed minded.
>
> The U.S. is full of authoritarians — people with this psychological
> profile are driving the political polarization, the political
> dialogue, as well as the divide over factual reality in the U.S
>
> There are however, distinguishing features between authoritarian
> followers and authoritarian leaders.
>
> It is the authoritarian followers who seek simple answers to complex
> questions and who put too much faith in their leaders.
>
> These *follower* people are often led by persons with quite different
> personalities, the authoritarian leaders, who are the opportunistic
> and manipulative types we now see so prominently on the right (and
> increasingly in power around the world), such as most of the 2012
> Republican presidential candidates.
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.eckankar/browse_frm/thread/fecc1c71ba37266a#
>
>
> Fundamentalism is a tendency exhibited by significant minorities
> within most major religions. Fundamentalists seek to recapture a
> supposed ideological "purity," often by reasserting the primacy of
> their own idiosyncratic interpretation of religious texts over
> centuries of acquired knowledge and practice. This puts them at odds
> not only with the secular world and members of other religions, but
> also with their less zealous brethren.
>
> There is an actual movement among English speaking, especially
> American, protestant Christians whose leaders describe themselves as
> "fundamentalists." Founded at approximately the same historical moment
> as the First World War, the movement reflected the cultural
> disorientation of poorer, more rural, less well-educated Americans in
> a rapidly urbanizing America.
>
> Religious fundamentalism and education
> One of the tenets of religious fundamentalism is how easy it is for
> the "pure" to be spoiled, which leads to a desire for as much of life
> as possible to be lived outside of mainstream society. Obviously the
> unrestrained contact with others of different opinions/beliefs is
> dangerous to the young fundamentalist, and avoiding such opportunities
> may be achieved by homeschooling, or in whole institutions dedicated
> to maintaining the purity of the schooled, with the added advantage of
> captive audiences who are more easily indoctrinated. See Pensacola
> Christian College for a prime example.
> http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fundamentalism
>
>
> Christian fundamentalism, also known as Fundamentalist Christianity,
> or Fundamentalism,[1] arose out of British and American Protestantism
> in the late 19th century and early 20th century among evangelical
> Christians.[2] The founders reacted against liberal theology and
> militantly asserted that the inerrancy of the Bible was essential for
> true Christianity and was being violated by the modernists. As an
> organized movement, it began in the 1920s within Protestant churches —
> especially Baptist and Presbyterian — in the United States in the
> early 20th century. Fundamentalist Christianity is often intertwined
> with Biblical literalism.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism

I heard that "Tornado Alley" runs right through the Bible Belt.