[[ This was originally written back in August 2011 and somehow never got posted. While the Toyota North American HQ has downsized and work shifted to other parts of the country included Georgetown, KY, the northern Kentucky area continues to grow. No new mountains have formed in Northern Kentucky and the Creation Museum has grown employing over 300 people during the peak summer holiday season! ]]
It lately seems that detractors of the Creation Museum have taken to telling lies for Darwin.
Recently, Ken Ham blogged about a new book, Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, in which the author Brook Wilensky-Lanford, included a chapter about her visit to the Creation Museum. Her book is about the search for the location of the Garden of Eden in ancient and modern history–similar to books about the search for Noah’s Ark. Ken was critical of the author for making up several “facts” about Kentucky and the museum. Brook claimed that northern Kentucky had mountains, the Creation Museum was hidden behind a jagged mountain peak, and the area has abandoned factory smokestacks and blown-out ghost towns. Apparently she mistook the nearby Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America corporate headquarter buildings as “abandoned factory smokestacks.” (That facility employs 1,055 with an annual payroll of $113 million.) Ken discusses other interesting “facts” the author cited about the museum. As Ken says: “…did she deliberately distort her text just to be more colorful in her writing to help her polemic against the biblical creation position.”
And we have to ask…what was she smoking?!?
Earlier this month, the so-called “Friendly Atheist” posted a guest blog by Matt Cowan about a trip to the Creation Museum. Matt is a junior at Indiana University and member of the Secular Alliance of Indiana University. Matt and his fellow Secular Alliance friends regular post guest blogs expressing their annoyance with Christians and the Bible. What’s so amazing about this posting are his comments about dinosaurs at the Creation Museum:
When you come up to the gates of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, one of the first things you notice is a pair of dinosaur statues positioned on each side of the main gate. When you walk into the Creation Museum, one of the first things you see is a giant model of a flying dinosaur, perhaps a pterodactyl, hanging in the air, posing as if in mid-flight. [Pterodactyls, or “pterosaurs”, are apparently not dinosaurs, but my inner child rejects this new scientific fact. Ed.] As you begin to walk through the exhibits, something sticks out: these people like dinosaurs. They really like dinosaurs.
Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist blogger, injected a comment about Matt’s confusion about what’s a dinosaur. Somehow Matt got the idea that the pterandon above the Dragon Hall Bookstore entrance and over the Foto FX area is a dinosaur. Poor Matt. If he could read the signs accompanying the exhibits and displays, he’d know the difference!
Or, perhaps all this misinformation is due to the increasing legalization of medical and recreational marijuana use in the United States?
CP
