Tipped off by today’s CIDOMLB cartoon I went and checked-out http://answersingenesis.org/museum/:
[answersingenesis.org]We’re not talking about so-called reality TV,’ which places real people in unrealistic situations and throws in a bizarre twist at the end. At the Creation Museum special effects theater, you’ll see true stories from the Bible, not embellished with unrealistic subplots. And the unusual twist (compared to many other biblically based’ movies) is accuracy-both biblical and scientific!
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[answersingenesis.org]The special effects theater will take you on a riveting journey back in time. The five screens will come alive with the convincing power of true stories such as Noah’s Ark and the Flood, the fate of the dinosaurs, the unfinished building of the Tower of Babel, and the death and resurrection of Christ.
But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Many exotic animals will fill the garden and the rooms of the Ark, and we can’t create them in two days like God. To make it even more challenging, we have never even seen animals quite like them before. Sure, we’ve seen modern cats and elephants, but they are the descendants of the original cat and elephant kinds, which no longer exist (see Representing the “world that then was” ‘).
Here’s another challenge: wow’ a general audience with an exhibit on radiocarbon dating. Many people want a young-earth explanation of the dating methods that supposedly prove millions of years, but not many people would read a 1,000 word sign in a museum. So we have to make the exhibit fun, short and easy, even for young people to grasp.
What about the Ice Age, so-called ape men and the geologic column? We have ideas, but we’re always looking for more effective, dramatic ways to present the much-needed answers to the questions of the day.
We pray that one day thousands will walk out of the museum and not just say wow, that’s a great museum,’ but wow, the Bible really can be trusted, and now I’m better equipped to defend it.’
Mmmm… I wonder if representing God’s creation that never existed should be classified as some form of heresy; after all, they must be gone for a reason…
Now what was that line from Good Omens? “Earth… scythed clean of all its higher life forms. Nothing left but dust, and fundamentalists…”
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