A Walk Thru of the Creationist Museum

[Linkster]

http://crazytalk.typepad.com/bluegrassroots/2007/06/fun_at_the_crea.html

A fun filled day in Kentucky - I sure am glad the Northern Kentucky Convention & Visitors Bureau is promoting it with tax dollars:
http://defconblog.org/2007/09/more-on-creation-museum/

[Jennifer]

Not saying Christianity is right or wrong, but you have to look at some amazing shit in the Bible.

A) Perfect dimensions for an ocean going ship hauling major cargo.
B) Correct placement of the sun long before Rome or Catholics or modern "scientists" existed.
C) Correct descriptions of ocean currents
D) Regular bathing and healthy eating staving off things like plague.


Now, maybe it's just a collection of intelligent men writing a morality story. I don't know. Obviously there were intelligent men way back when, otherwise the Hanging Gardens of Geisa, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Pyramids, Mummification, etc would never have been built/performed/made.

Why is it science is so reluctant to use the knowledge of our ancestors just because it has some links to a religion? You'd attribute all kinds of intelligence to Pagans, Wiccans and other religions found in Gaul, Rome, Greece, the Celts, etc.

[Linkster]

The problem with all of those things in the bible is that they all existed way before it was ever written - there are over 170 different tribal stories (before the bible) of a great flood - that is probably based on fact 4800 years ago - most scientists are working to prove it was a comet impacting the indian ocean south of Madascar - the comet was large enough to have left chevron marks on the land in africa, australia, india and asia from the initial water wave - and its size is estimated to have been large enough to cause a tsunami and following torrential rains that would have covered most of the earth - killing about 50% of all living beings - and causing most of the human migration that we know occurred around that time

The Egyptians were in their first dynasty when the flood would have occured so they would have had the skills to come up with ships of the right size with no problem, knew sailing, currents and planetary science well enough to predict sun cycles and knew the ravages of plagues extremely well.

I would say that science actually has the right idea when they take all of the written evidence including religious works, and then go backwards to find the real story - seems they have been right so far

[Jennifer]

Doesn't negate the fact all that stuff was in the Tora before your scientists figured it out.

If they would just read what our elder ancestors wrote, instead of trying to disprove what was written, we might have colonies in Alpha-Centari now, instead of lamenting the fact that all the fiber from my vegetarian diet is producing methane gas which is released and melts the polar ice caps!

[Linkster]

well - polar ice caps are gonna melt whether we have gas or not - thats just the cycle thats been going on for millions of years - when you come out of an ice age things warm up

the ancestors - before the established religions and the Torah - did transmit many old stories - and thats exactly what the scientists are using to figure out what really happened - relying on myths that include a few of these real stories is probably not a real good way to go since you get bogged down in all of the incest and murder

[disrupter]

There are implicit structures in social codes of behavior,
they shouldn't be instantly trashed,
but they should be carefully sifted for their useful behaviors & for their superstitious non-sense rationales.

As for all science being explicitly, clearly available from religious text?

me thinks you have been smoking too much religious ceremonial crack.