Op-Ed in Courier Journal criticizes Creation Museum

Titled: "Is creationism museum good for kids?", James Willmot does a great job slamming Answers in Genesis and their ignorant pseudo-science bologna. His real concern is what it's doing to the children. More and more conservative christians are resorting to homeschooling their children. And that's dangerous in this state.

The Kentucky home-school statutes are terribly vague. In fact, science education is not even mentioned in the regulations.

He's right and he doesn't pull many punches. This is a dangerous institution that lures children and parents into a place that does nothing more than serve to dumb down our population. In this day and age we should be moving forward and improving science education. We're going to need it. But AIG would prefer that we regress to biblical times and beliefs. If we allow them to take children on this little journey it hurts us all in the long run.

Some more fun quotes from the editorial.

There is a great educational injustice being inflicted upon thousands of children in this country, a large percentage of whom come from the Kentucky, Ohio and, Indiana areas. The source of this injustice is a sophisticated Christian ministry that uses the hook of dinosaurs, the guarantee of an afterlife, and the horrors of hell to convince children and their families to believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible. The tax-exempt ministry, Answers in Genesis, and its new $28 million creation museum in Boone County has become the de facto source of science information to thousands of Christians who are throwing away reason and 500 years of scientific inquiry and replacing it with ignorant dogma.

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We do not need citizens who are closed-minded, anti-knowledge fundamentalists who want to see the world move closer to the Biblical prophecies of an Armageddon. (AIG also believes in a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation.) Unfortunately, the creation museum in Northern Kentucky has been very successful at encouraging their non-thinking, anti-reasoning philosophy, especially among young, dinosaur-loving children. Inaction in this matter may come back to haunt us in the future.

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