Visit to the Creation Museum

Chucker recently convinced me to go to the Creation Museum with him to see the insanity up close and personal. Disturbing as the trip was there were a few glimmers of hope.

There's not much I can say about this place that hasn't already been said on numerous other blogs and articles. As Chucker put it, "They're diabolical." That really sums it up. The Answers in Genesis (AIG) people do a very good job of providing very simple answers to people who don't want to hear the truth or possess any critical thinking skills. They start off the tour at a reconstructed dinosaur dig site. A couple of 'paleontologists' are talking about what they like to call, 'Starting Points.' This becomes the Creation Museum mantra. "Same facts, different starting points." The idea is that if you can start with the belief that the bible is absolutely 100% literally true, then you can bend and twist the existing facts to fit your starting point. And they make it appear as though one starting point can be as valid as any other. The problem with this approach is that this isn't how science works. You don't come up with the answer first and then bend the observable facts to fit your views.

The people at AIG already believe they know the answer so real science goes out the window as they try to make sense of observable evidence that runs contrary to their 'truth.' So they create new guesses or stories about how these events could have happened. Note that I don't say they create theories. This would imply that they actually took facts, observed them, hypothesized, tested, measured, and then either proved or failed to disprove their hypothesis.

The day we went there was a church group there with lots of small children. Ah, to be young and lied to. The only silver lining in all of this was that while in line we over heard a few different people poking holes in the creationist pseudo-logic. It made me feel better to know that we weren't the only people there not swallowing this fiction.