Creation Museum
This week it was announced that a museum supporting the proponents of the theory of Universe Creation as depicted in the chapter of Genesis in the Jewish - Christian Bible has opened. It is located in Petersburg Kentucky and called Creation Museum.
When I heard about this I was appalled. In my attempts to be more socially supportive I’ve been examining these emotions. Why, did this upset me so much?
Ok, please hear me out.
My knee jerk reaction, and this is going to upset some people, is well it is not true. Creation as depicted in the bible is not true. It was an idea made up by people with limited understanding of their world and the universe. It is some beautiful images rhetorically speaking but contradicts itself within paragraphs as if written by two different authors. It was very hip with the time period it was created in and with the religions in play of the same period. Personally I wouldn’t take the retranslated works of over 4,000 years ago as a first person account.
So OK, I don’t believe in Creationism, fine why do I care if there is museum out there for the people who do.
That is a great question. I guess my personal understanding of what a museum is, is at fault here. I’ve always seen museums as places to learn true things. Such as well if you mix vinegar and baking soda it will fiz. Here are a couple theories behind why this works. Henry the eighth had several wives; how this happened is documented in writings from the time but, those documents can be biased by the writers.
At least in the Science museum they call things theories and are opened up for change. LOL, there is no temple mount saying this is how it is and can’t be altered. They also announce right on the door where the ideas are coming from. It is the Scientific Natural History Museum. Where as a Hindu or Buddhist walking into the Creation museum won’t find their Creation stories.
Fine, if the Christians want their Euro-centric Adam and Eve with disregard for carbon-dating dinosaurs fine it is America. But the next doctor operating on my daughter better know we all related to the pig and their heart valves can be handy in a pinch.
--Mom
Comments
If someone wants to open something like this - so what! If you don't believe it then don't go there.
No one knows for sure how things came to be. Those that think they know change their mind from time to time. Me? I think this week I believe life was planted here by aliens since evolution THEORY has many big holes and creation THEORY has some gaps itself.
They are all theories, absolutely no facts (definable scientifically) that would take either from the "theory" classification.
Posted by: JustaDog | June 1, 2007 09:53 AM