An article in the Orlando Sentinel talks about a theme park designer who made rides for Universal and had also made displays at the new Kentucky Creation “Museum.” Sad, sad stuff, but some good quotes from professor Lawrence Krauss. And the headline is funny: Inherit the spin.
“We don’t find dinosaur footprints and human footprints together,” Marsh says. “They weren’t necessarily at the same place at the same time. But because you don’t find them together that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist at the same time.”
That kind of presentation outrages scientists such as Lawrence Krauss, professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.
“For the Flintstones or Alley Oop, that’s fine,” he says. “Everything we know about science, not just evolution — namely geology, chemistry, physics, chemistry, astronomy — everything tells us that the Earth is far older than 6,000 years old.”
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“If it was called the ‘Creation Theme Park,’ or ‘Creation Amusement Park,’ it wouldn’t be as bad,” he says. “Instead, it’s pretending to be an educational institution. In particular, it has the look and feel of a natural-history museum, but it’s fraudulent. It’s a supernatural history museum. It systematically distorts and essentially lies about science.”
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“There are many people of faith who accept the fact that science tells us the Earth is billions of years old,” he says. “And to suggest that, if you believe that, you’re an atheist is certainly bad theology and harmful to people of faith. My major concern is that kids will go to this museum and come out confused about what science is and what it isn’t.”
One can scrub the creationist nonesense out of the brain with a visit to the Miami Science Museum, though.
Rare fossils and some big, toothy skeletons are coming to the Miami Science Museum on Saturday for a year-long exhibit..
The Dinosaurs of China, developed by the Miami Science Museum using fossils borrowed from the Beijing Museum of Natural History, includes feathered dinosaur fossils unearthed in the 1990s and believed by some paleontologists to provide a missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and the earliest birds.
