Bible Guides Tour Museums to Counter Science
At a large, colorful panel along a wall, Carter reads aloud from a passage describing the disappearance of dinosaurs from the earth about 65 million years ago. He and some of the older students exchange knowing smiles at the timeline, which contradicts their interpretation the Bible suggesting a 6,000-year-old planet.
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He and the other guides counter secular interpretations of history, nature and the origin of life with their own literal reading of the Bible. And they do so right at the point where they feel they feel science indoctrinates young people — museums.
“Museums are the secular temples of our day,” founder Bill Jack says.
I guess maybe this is better than creating their own “museums”? It seems like you can’t accidentally wind up in nutty religious tour, not realising what it is: you have to plan to go there. And a few of the kids there might be convinced by the actual science.
via Canadian Cynic
February 19th, 2006 at 10:59 am
That’s spooks me out. I’m glad it’s voluntary, but it still creeps me out that there are people who can so blatantly refute science based on a myth.
Grrr.
February 19th, 2006 at 11:02 am
I always tell the dupes they don’t have to read any real science — just read what the creationist loonies write with a little intelligence and you’ll see the lunacy fall apart of its own internal inconsistencies. There’s a lot of entertainment in it. Watch them try to deny the validity of all radioisotope dating without denying that something happened over Hiroshima! Watch them argue the Bible does not say the Earth is flat and square! The most fun is reading the different creationist schools’ contemptuous refutations of the other schools’ beliefs. They can all see through each other….
February 19th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
People are crazy, really. But come on, some of the kids have to read the actual content and think “I wonder . . . ” right?
Cougar, I like to avoid wading into creationism, except when other people have handily found for me the interesting things they say. I am a little curious about the isoptopes, though.
August 26th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
It amazes me that not one person can say that the Bible is untrue…no one can point out any errors. Yet there are still people like the ones on this page who follow “science” who tends to not be able to prove their theories….like that we came from apes. If that were true…woouldn’t we have some form of evidence?????
September 28th, 2006 at 8:21 am
a reply to “Interesting”.
have you never seen discovery-chanel, or bullshit?
Thear you will find tons of evidens that the earth is mutch older then the bible say it is.
(sorry for any misspelling)