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Old 02-21-2014, 02:19 PM
 
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Setting up a "debate" over whether science or religion is "right or wrong" about something is nonsensical. Science exists to ascertain how things happen, religion exists to at least try to answer the questions of why, or to what purpose things happen. You really can't reason with people who try to make the Bible--in all its deep wisdom--into a science textbook.
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Old 02-21-2014, 02:50 PM
 
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Setting up a "debate" over whether science or religion is "right or wrong" about something is nonsensical. Science exists to ascertain how things happen, religion exists to at least try to answer the questions of why, or to what purpose things happen. You really can't reason with people who try to make the Bible--in all its deep wisdom--into a science textbook.
I have to aqree. When we are told this rock we live on has been here for millions, perhaps billions of years, and we objects called humans are just a small fraction of that time, I admittedly go WOW! But when they tell me we evolved out of some primeval ooze in the ocean I am ready to rebel. So I am a descendant of some spot of slime?

Don't agree with either the creationists or the evolutionists, but I have to admit the creationists approach is much more appealing. The thought I came from some spot of slime in the ocean doesn't really appeal all that much to me.
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Old 02-24-2014, 04:10 AM
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As the thread continues I feel I have to point out that it's about the museum, not about evolution vs creationism. We have other forums for that (religion, great debates etc).
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Old 02-24-2014, 05:21 AM
 
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Old 02-24-2014, 08:03 AM
 
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I guess that video had a message behind it, but I failed to get it.
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Old 02-24-2014, 08:09 AM
 
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As the thread continues I feel I have to point out that it's about the museum, not about evolution vs creationism. We have other forums for that (religion, great debates etc).
Yac.
Take another look at that muesum Yac, it is all about creationism versus evolution with no room to respect the other side's views. If you ask too many questions about what they are expounding they feel is opposite to their views they will ask you to leave. That is not a museum, that is a church.
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Old 02-24-2014, 08:12 AM
 
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I guess that video had a message behind it, but I failed to get it.
It highlights the tremendous hypocrisy and religiously sanctioned materialism endemic in the modern day American phenomena of Evangelical (fundamentalist) Christianity.

It is important in the terms of this discussion because the Creation Museum is a manifestation of that line of thinking and the ethos of discrimination it enshrines, as a native born cincinnatian who sees tremendous potential in the "new cincinnati" having this museum near our city is nothing short of a black eye. This museum belongs in Mississippi or Alabama.
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Old 02-24-2014, 08:19 AM
 
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No, I doubt if it was an error. Those people believe they can draw an audience from anywhere. You are traveling between Michigan and Florida? That is fine, stop off here in NKY and let us give you the biblical facts you have been missing. Will admit I have resisted actually going there. Have read several articles on the operation, probably why I have resisted going there. From what I have read would likely end up in a shouting match with someone and being asked to leave. Once I get my dander up the parting would likely be less than peaceful.
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Take another look at that muesum Yac, it is all about creationism versus evolution with no room to respect the other side's views. If you ask too many questions about what they are expounding they feel is opposite to their views they will ask you to leave. That is not a museum, that is a church.
How can you state this if you have never been there? See my previous post. #30.
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Old 02-24-2014, 08:33 AM
 
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Don't agree with either the creationists or the evolutionists, but I have to admit the creationists approach is much more appealing. The thought I came from some spot of slime in the ocean doesn't really appeal all that much to me.
It probably isn't very appealing to you that another one of those spots of slime (bacteria, virus, fungus, etc.) can literally destroy you. Nevertheless, it is the truth.

The mere notion that the Earth is only 6,000 years old is patently absurd and easily disproved. Clearly, there are many, many unanswered questions and a lot of them will never be answered. However, answers to questions which have been answered long ago are STILL being denied by these hard-lined creationists. Any "museum" supporting idiotic notions like dinosaurs walking the Earth with man 5,000 years ago or the Earth being the center of the universe is simply an embarrassment.
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Old 02-24-2014, 08:58 AM
 
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as a native born cincinnatian who sees tremendous potential in the "new cincinnati" having this museum near our city is nothing short of a black eye. This museum belongs in Mississippi or Alabama.
So much for the freedom of religion guaranteed in the Constitution ...

I may or may not agree with the motivation behind the establishment of such a museum, but its owners have every right to locate it wherever they choose.
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