I happened upon the website for Answers in Genesis this morning and found, under Ken Ham's blog, a lovely post where he has put up the account of a young girl who visited the Creation Museum.
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2011/01/18/a-day-at-the-creation-museum/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+KenHam+(Around+the+World+with+Ken+Ham)
Isn't it great to know that, right now, even as I write this, children are being encouraged to believe that which never was, that which science has continually shown to be untrue? Instead of giving the future of America a first-rate education in the sciences, and the reality of what science is telling us, we get a definite subculture in promoting a delusion, that of a literal, six-day creation.
This child writes of seeing representations of Adam and Eve, of Methuselah, and Noah building the Ark (just how exactly did he fit all of those animals on board...and if the waters covered all the world, does that include Mt. Everest, which means they would all have needed oxygen masks?), of watching videos about the days of creation (and, perhaps, being told that the Grand Canyon is the product of Noah's flood rather than millions of years of natural processes). Her father wrote an addition to the note, saying how wonderful it was that she remembered all of these details months later.
Wonderful, another child potentially "vaccinated" against the reality of evolution. Thank you, Ken Ham. If a person wishes to believe in a six-day creation and Noah's flood (and there are many Christians who believe in neither, literally), then by all means go ahead and accept it as a matter of "faith." But don't pretend that such a belief has any grounding in reality or is supported by any facts. It isn't.
The funny thing about all this is that this nine-year old child was a more coherent writer than Ken Ham!
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2011/01/18/a-day-at-the-creation-museum/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+KenHam+(Around+the+World+with+Ken+Ham)
Isn't it great to know that, right now, even as I write this, children are being encouraged to believe that which never was, that which science has continually shown to be untrue? Instead of giving the future of America a first-rate education in the sciences, and the reality of what science is telling us, we get a definite subculture in promoting a delusion, that of a literal, six-day creation.
This child writes of seeing representations of Adam and Eve, of Methuselah, and Noah building the Ark (just how exactly did he fit all of those animals on board...and if the waters covered all the world, does that include Mt. Everest, which means they would all have needed oxygen masks?), of watching videos about the days of creation (and, perhaps, being told that the Grand Canyon is the product of Noah's flood rather than millions of years of natural processes). Her father wrote an addition to the note, saying how wonderful it was that she remembered all of these details months later.
Wonderful, another child potentially "vaccinated" against the reality of evolution. Thank you, Ken Ham. If a person wishes to believe in a six-day creation and Noah's flood (and there are many Christians who believe in neither, literally), then by all means go ahead and accept it as a matter of "faith." But don't pretend that such a belief has any grounding in reality or is supported by any facts. It isn't.
The funny thing about all this is that this nine-year old child was a more coherent writer than Ken Ham!
Perhaps this child will be one of the fortunate ones who do finally come to their senses and see the mythology for what it is...a total fabrication.
ReplyDeleteWhat's really disturbing about this is the long term effects.
ReplyDeleteIf some one is willfully ignorant, and intelligent (the two can exist together), then all of their intelligence goes to waste. How many great scientists never existed because of places like this? How many advances were lost?
What's frightening is that there is a whole slew of organizations like Ham's that are spreading this junk on a tax free basis with loads of people in the wings working night and day towards the end of destroying science.
ReplyDeleteThose trying to teach actual science have their work cut out for them.