[Crossposted from hiramhover.typepad.com]
There's no point in arguing with this--especially when laughing at it is so much more fun. I've bolded my favorite parts.
From the AP (via ABC News), Creation Museum Sparks Evolution Debate:
Ken Ham has spent 11 years working on a museum that poses the big question when and how did life begin? Ham hopes to soon offer an answer to that question in his still-unfinished Creation Museum in northern Kentucky.
The $25 million monument to creationism offers Ham's view that God created the world in six, 24-hour days on a planet just 6,000 years old. The largest museum of its kind in the world, it hopes to draw 600,000 people from the Midwest and beyond in its first year.
More on the flip.
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People will get saved here," Ham said of the museum. "It's going to fire people up. If nothing else, it's going to get them to
question their own position of what they believe."
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Among Ham's beliefs are that the Earth is about 6,000 years old, a figure arrived at by tracing the biblical genealogies, and not 4.5 billion years, as mainstream scientists say; the Grand Canyon was formed not by erosion over millions of years, but by floodwaters in a matter of days or weeks and that dinosaurs and man once coexisted, and dozens of the creatures including Tyrannosaurus Rex were passengers on the ark built by Noah, who was a real man, not a myth.
Don't even get me started on the part where someone named Ham righteously lectures us about Noah.
Now, I'll give Ham this: he can certainly expect to woo the 4-to-7 year-old set by depicting 2 T Rexes alongside Noah's elephants, giraffes, bunnies, etc.
He does, however, need to prepare for a question he's sure to get from those cheeky youngsters: after 150 (or more) days, how did Noah manage to walk off the Ark with a pair of every species, when 2 of his passengers were 5-ton carnivores?
Inquiring minds will want to know....