- When dinosaurs ruled the world…
Around two years ago a vast Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky.
By all accounts a quick wander around the grounds has more in common with a theme park than a traditional museum. Weighing in at almost twice the size of our Natural History Museum, the grounds boast animatronic dinosaurs, a special effects cinema, a planetarium and a petting zoo. All in all the museum cost no less than £17m to construct.
Founded by a Christian ministry, Answers in Genesis, the museum seeks to impart various nuggets of information, such as:
- Genesis is literally true
- The universe was created by direct acts of God over six days
- The universe is less than 10,000 years old
"Apparently some of them were even smart enough to open doors," said the dinosaur
But it’s interesting to note that this deliberately “non-scientific” museum makes use of a huge array of technologies that science has created in order to attempt to validate its points. Electricity, robotics, photography, telecommunications and many more all play a part in making this museum seem plausible.
It could be argued that they are not rejecting some scientific discoveries (like technology) – only evolutionary or historical discoveries. But all of this is really one package. For example, broadly speaking the same scientific knowledge that allows us to build nuclear reactors is also the basis for carbon-dating…
But then, the first result from a Google search for the age of the earth according to carbon-dating reveals…
This answer from Answers in Genesis. And with SEO like that, how could they be wrong?
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