Any thoughts on the Creation Museum?

[Copper Scroll]

"Waste of $27 mil" is what I think about it.

Couldn't that money have been used to feed the hungry or shelter the homeless?

This is kind of a good point although really not one we can dwell on. It's too easy to say "Well you may be serving God this way, but you should be doing it that way". If I give money to my church, others could say it should be going to the hungry instead and vice versa. Every Christian serves however they feel called to.

About the museum itself, I would love to see it!

The questionable presentation of biblical stories as scientific facts aside.... Look at how much controversy this has caused and how much disdain and mistrust and ill will it has inspired among the public. If the money had been used for charitable acts instead it would saved the world this measure of trouble... and actually contributed to making the world better at the same time... and perhaps earned the respect of the very people who are so fiercely opposed to this museum. All this has done is given many educated and intelligent people a reason to mistrust Christians and to think that Christians are lunatics and fanatics.

[KeilanS]

The questionable presentation of biblical stories as scientific facts aside.... Look at how much controversy this has caused and how much disdain and mistrust and ill will it has inspired among the public. If the money had been used for charitable acts instead it would saved the world this measure of trouble... and actually contributed to making the world better at the same time... and perhaps earned the respect of the very people who are so fiercely opposed to this museum. All this has done is given many educated and intelligent people a reason to mistrust Christians and to think that Christians are lunatics and fanatics.

Well, that is a good point, but the fanatic thing is something we will have to deal with. The secular ideals are slowly moving away from the Christian ones, and over time we are going to come across as fanatics unless we abandon the Bible completely. In Canada right now, I come across as a fanatic because I disagree with gay marriage and that will only get worse. I like to focus on winning respect by being consistent, rather than by appealing to the ideals the rest of the world has begun to create.

[AndrewA]

The questionable presentation of biblical stories as scientific facts aside.... Look at how much controversy this has caused and how much disdain and mistrust and ill will it has inspired among the public. If the money had been used for charitable acts instead it would saved the world this measure of trouble... and actually contributed to making the world better at the same time... and perhaps earned the respect of the very people who are so fiercely opposed to this museum. All this has done is given many educated and intelligent people a reason to mistrust Christians and to think that Christians are lunatics and fanatics.

Evolutionists would have loved the money to go to “charitable” causes as the creationist museum breaks the monopoly which evolution atheist scientists have on the media and education, so of course evolutionists want to portray Christians as money wasting, hypocritical lunatics and fanatics as this is the only come back they can find, Evolutionists and scientific community are used to playing the discrediting , mud slinging and name calling card, to any scientist or historian who dares to stray from the narrow path by publishing findings and reports that even hint at upsetting the evolution model and theory.

If you are so concerned about the poor and starving, have you petitioned all other museums and the top 100 wealthiest business and people for money? I doubt it. Way atheists etc are carrying on about money, anyone would think that it was a whole years collection and fund raising takings from every church in the US, which of course is not true. contrary to what these anti-Christians would like you to believe, the museum is not taking money away from the countless charitable and good causes that just about every church contributes to every week.

However this will continue as any mud that sticks is going to help sway a few peoples views about evolution, after all "respectable and moral" scientists are better than crazy money wasting Christians who don't care about the world.

It is about time the flaws and errors of evolution were made public and the truth about creation and dinosaurs are presented without being covered up, ignored, twisted or distorted by evolutionists who have been controlling everything far too long.

[agiopolem]

Amen to that!

This museum is the first of its kind (on this much of a scale), and besides, look how much publicity it has gotten! The main problem AiG is having is parking spaces! They are being flooded with visitors, and I think that the protests are helping more than hindering, same thing with The Da Vinci Code, although that was worth being protested.

[KeilanS]

So, would somebody like to come over to Canada and build one? Please!!!!

[Copper Scroll]

The questionable presentation of biblical stories as scientific facts aside.... Look at how much controversy this has caused and how much disdain and mistrust and ill will it has inspired among the public. If the money had been used for charitable acts instead it would saved the world this measure of trouble... and actually contributed to making the world better at the same time... and perhaps earned the respect of the very people who are so fiercely opposed to this museum. All this has done is given many educated and intelligent people a reason to mistrust Christians and to think that Christians are lunatics and fanatics.

Well, that is a good point, but the fanatic thing is something we will have to deal with. The secular ideals are slowly moving away from the Christian ones, and over time we are going to come across as fanatics unless we abandon the Bible completely. In Canada right now, I come across as a fanatic because I disagree with gay marriage and that will only get worse. I like to focus on winning respect by being consistent, rather than by appealing to the ideals the rest of the world has begun to create.

Charity is not an appeal to the "ideals of the rest of the world". It is Christian, and the rest of the world (at least most of it) finds it admirable and respectable. It does not divide us. It unites us... and no one has to compromise his ideals.

[Copper Scroll]

Look at how much controversy this has caused

look how much controversy Jesus Christ caused! the Truth always divides, and God wants it that way

I hear this silly strawman argument all the time: "oh the money should have been used for x purpose"...wrong! there is a DESPERATE need in this conutry to counteract the Lie of Darwinism, and the effect it is having on society

I don't think it is very effectively counteracting anything. Putting up a museum that reinforces your beliefs is not an effective way to sway scientists, and most educated people will follow the scientists' lead on issues like this--issues pertaining to natural phenomena. So ultimately all I see it doing is pushing educated people away from Christ.

[Guest]

BEGINNINGS THE TRUTH

"For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:11

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." John 1:1-3

So ultimately all I see it doing is pushing educated people away from Christ.

Educated Or Not, Truth Is Curiously Attractive To Some Folk

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 14:6

Must Be Gifted Folk, Huh

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9

WHO'S CHRIST

Christ The Creator

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Revelation 4:11

Christ God The Son

Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

Isaiah 38:16

Christ The Resurrected And The Ascended And, Soon, The Descending LORD OF LORDS

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:7-8

The Christ Of The Bible Or The Christ Of The Mocker?

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:4

Still Got Breath?

Still Got Hope.

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 3:16

May You Drop Your Pride And See Jesus And Believe And Be Blessed Beyond Measure

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Matthew 5:3-12

Love, Joe

[ollkiller]

If i go outside i see light from millions of years ago

really? just like that, huh?

Yes, i take six steps to my door, open it and Hey Presto, Space The Final Frontier.

when God created the heavens and supernaturally inflated the cosmos in a moment of time, you, my friend, were *not* there

I know i wasn't there, but i know the speed of light and the universe is so vast that light from certain stars takes millions of years to reach us.

[kari21]

I know i wasn't there, but i know the speed of light and the universe is so vast that light from certain stars takes millions of years to reach us.

It goes without saying, (but I'm gonna say it anyway), if God could speak an entire universe into existence from scratch, he certainly could create light already here with one word from his mouth. And as the creator of the laws of physics, he sure isn't subjected to them...