The Guardian reports that the world's first Creationist museum - dedicated to the idea that the creation of the world, as told in Genesis, is factually correct - will soon open in Kentucky. Dinosaurs and all.
"Theological scholars may have noticed that there are, in fact, no dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible - and here lies the Creationists' first problem. Since there are undoubtedly dinosaur bones and since, according to the Creationists, the world is only 6,000 years old - a calculation devised by the 17th-century Bishop Ussher, counting back through the Bible to the Creation, a formula more or less accepted by the museum - dinosaurs must be shoehorned in somewhere, along with the Babylonians, Egyptians and the other ancient civilisations. As for the Grand Canyon - no problem: that was, of course, created in a few months by Noah's Flood."
The whole concept is amazing, and amazingly interesting. But people seem to want to support these ideas: the $25 million that the museum will cost will be collected from private donations. Only $3 million remain ...
1 kommentti
millikan
13.11.2006 15:34
Jotenkin mieleen tulivat jotkut Harryhausenin vanhat hirviöleffat tai Lassi&Leevi kun pohdin dinosauruksia, egyptiläisiä ja babylonilaisia...mitä väliä sillä on että siinä ei ole mitään järkeä, se on silti hillittömän cool.