Faith Infiltration: Creation Museum Pt.9
For those of you just joining us, Flimsy and I made a trip out to the Creation Museum awhile back to document some of the interesting things they are teaching people. The people of the Creation Museum use a series of posters to explain that respective "starting points" (Human reason or the Bible) matter in our personal lives, and we should start with the Bible because it's true. Here, posters show that "According to human reason, present processes operating over 14 billion years explain the world we see today. Humans are only the latest ripple in the endless stream of evolution".
Actually, that's not really true. This may be a minor point, but characterizing us as the latest ripple ignores the countless populations of organisms that have adapted and changed (evolved…) since the beginning of written history.
I also take issue with classifying the change of galaxies, solar systems, earth, continents, etc as "evolution". If this is evolution, then any time any system undergoes any type of change at all, one can classify it as evolution. The nuclear reaction occurring on the sun as a result of the fusion of hydrogen and helium - that's evolution. The wearing down of rocks due to wind erosion – that's also evolution. The gravitational pull of planetary bodies – that's also evolution. Continental drift – that's evolution too. What AiG is doing here is taking the respective scientific fields of astrology, cosmology, geology, paleontology, physics, biology and nearly any other –ology (well, except for a tiny portion of theology) and lumping it all together under the heading "evolution" which, according to them, is a giant steaming pile of arbitrary guesses. Ignore them all. All of those –ologies are examples of people rejecting god and the reason we're not all hanging out in Eden with the dinosaurs and the happy fishies.
Snark aside, here is what the second poster says:
Gods perfect creation: in six, 24-hour days, god made a perfect creation. (Genesis 1:1).
The first man, Adam, disobeyed the creator, bringing death and corruption into the creation (Romans 5:12).
Adam's race became so wicked that god sent a catastrophic, global flood (Genesis 6:17).
When mankind refused to spread out over the earth, god confused their language (Genesis 11:9).
The creator became a man, Jesus Christ, who obeyed god in everything, unlike Adam. (Galatians 4:4).
Jesus Christ died on a cross to pay the penalty for mankind's disobedience (1 Peter 3:18).
One day the creator will remake creation, cast out the disobedient, and dwell with believers. (Revelation 20:34-21:1).
At the bottom, the poster reads, "Creation – 4004 BC: In six days the lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, including the earth, plants, the sun, the moon, trilobites, dinosaurs and humans." And "Global flood – 2348 BC: Most rocks and fossils are the result of the global flood and its aftermath. Humans left the ark, spread out, and filled the earth, bringing culture with them." The very bottom reads, "God's word reveals that, from the beginning, god created man and woman to dwell with him. God's intervention at key periods of history explains most of the world we see today.
I guess quoting Bible verses is their version of "evidence". You know, we also use "human reason" to conclude that the universe was not created 200 years ago. It's a good thing the Bible does not claim that, because we can't prove the universe wasn't created 200 years ago when a creator who can do whatever he wants is running the show.
I don't think it is possible to exemplify the "goddidit" mentality more so than with these posters.
Actually, that's not really true. This may be a minor point, but characterizing us as the latest ripple ignores the countless populations of organisms that have adapted and changed (evolved…) since the beginning of written history.
I also take issue with classifying the change of galaxies, solar systems, earth, continents, etc as "evolution". If this is evolution, then any time any system undergoes any type of change at all, one can classify it as evolution. The nuclear reaction occurring on the sun as a result of the fusion of hydrogen and helium - that's evolution. The wearing down of rocks due to wind erosion – that's also evolution. The gravitational pull of planetary bodies – that's also evolution. Continental drift – that's evolution too. What AiG is doing here is taking the respective scientific fields of astrology, cosmology, geology, paleontology, physics, biology and nearly any other –ology (well, except for a tiny portion of theology) and lumping it all together under the heading "evolution" which, according to them, is a giant steaming pile of arbitrary guesses. Ignore them all. All of those –ologies are examples of people rejecting god and the reason we're not all hanging out in Eden with the dinosaurs and the happy fishies.
Snark aside, here is what the second poster says:
Gods perfect creation: in six, 24-hour days, god made a perfect creation. (Genesis 1:1).
The first man, Adam, disobeyed the creator, bringing death and corruption into the creation (Romans 5:12).
Adam's race became so wicked that god sent a catastrophic, global flood (Genesis 6:17).
When mankind refused to spread out over the earth, god confused their language (Genesis 11:9).
The creator became a man, Jesus Christ, who obeyed god in everything, unlike Adam. (Galatians 4:4).
Jesus Christ died on a cross to pay the penalty for mankind's disobedience (1 Peter 3:18).
One day the creator will remake creation, cast out the disobedient, and dwell with believers. (Revelation 20:34-21:1).
At the bottom, the poster reads, "Creation – 4004 BC: In six days the lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, including the earth, plants, the sun, the moon, trilobites, dinosaurs and humans." And "Global flood – 2348 BC: Most rocks and fossils are the result of the global flood and its aftermath. Humans left the ark, spread out, and filled the earth, bringing culture with them." The very bottom reads, "God's word reveals that, from the beginning, god created man and woman to dwell with him. God's intervention at key periods of history explains most of the world we see today.
I guess quoting Bible verses is their version of "evidence". You know, we also use "human reason" to conclude that the universe was not created 200 years ago. It's a good thing the Bible does not claim that, because we can't prove the universe wasn't created 200 years ago when a creator who can do whatever he wants is running the show.
I don't think it is possible to exemplify the "goddidit" mentality more so than with these posters.
Labels: atheism, faith infiltration, Intelligent Design
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