3 posts tagged “creationism”

"World's first creationist museum opens in Kentucky"

"Lawrence Krauss, an author and physicist at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, decided to view the museum first-hand.

"'It's really impressive, and it really gives the impression that they're talking about science at some point,' said Mr Krauss.

"Awarding marks out of five, 'I'd give it a four for technology, five for propaganda. As for content, I'd give it a negative five,' he said."

People whose weak faith is easily shaken by knowledge about to open museum:

"The $27 million project, which also includes a planetarium, a special-effects theater, nature trails and a small lake, is privately funded by people who believe the Bible's first book, Genesis, is literally true.

"For them, a museum showing Christian schoolchildren and skeptics alike how the earth, animals, dinosaurs and humans were created in a six-day period about 6,000 years ago -- not over millions of years, as evolutionary science says -- is long overdue."

"Superstition the product of evolution"

"Religion and other forms of magical thinking continue to thrive - despite the lack of evidence and advance of science - because people are naturally biased to accept a role for the irrational, said Bruce Hood, professor of experimental psychology at the University of Bristol.

"This evolved credulity suggests that it would be impossible to root out belief in ideas such as creationism and paranormal phenomena, even though they have been countered by evidence and are held as a matter of faith alone."