There is a place in Petersburg, KY that defies all logic. I mean, I had heard of it, but didn’t think much about it. My friend Dave sent me a link to review of this place, and after reading it, I am left to ponder the sanity of those involved. I wonder what our country is coming to.
The place in question is the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY.
There is a wonderful review at Truthdig that is well worth reading. Here is a quote from the review, which relates the museums explanation of T-Rex dietary habits pre and post original sin.
Before Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise, museum visitors are told, all of the dinosaurs were peaceable plant-eaters. The evidence is found in Genesis 1:30, where God gives “green herb” to every creature to eat. There were no predators. T-Rex had such big teeth, the museum explains, so it could open coconuts. Only after Adam and Eve sinned and were cast out of paradise did the dinosaurs start to eat flesh. And Adam’s sin is a key component of the belief system, for in the eyes of many creationists, in order for Jesus’ death to be meaningful it had to atone for Adam’s first sin.
But exploring the Museum website is even more fun. There are many interesting articles to read that really “educate”. I love this article which concerns the problems with the age of the universe. Remember, according to creation “science” the universe is quite young, approximately 6,000 years young. This means things like the light from distant stars presents a real problem. After all, according to science as I learned, the light from some distant galaxies has been travelling billions of years. There is a conflict. There are five possible explanations, according to creation “science”
That the language of Genesis is phenomenological language (describing appearance). In this case, stars were made millions and billions of years before Day 4, but in such a manner that the light from all stars, no matter how far away, all arrived at the Earth on Day 4 and so would have been seen first at that moment. This is then a reference frame time-stamping events from that moment they are seen on Earth.
Or….
That clocks in the cosmos in the past have run at much higher rates than clocks on Earth. Especially during Creation Week, clocks of the exact same type on the edge of the universe ran something like 1013 times faster than clocks on Earth and therefore light from such regions had plenty of time to get to Earth in a matter of days, not millions or billions of years.
Or
That clocks on Earth in the past have run at much slower rates than clocks in the cosmos. Especially during Creation Week clocks of the exact same type on Earth ran about 1013 times slower than clocks at the edge of the universe and therefore light from the edge of the universe had plenty of time to get to Earth in a matter of days as recorded by Earth clocks, not millions or billions of years.
Or
That the speed of light was enormously faster in the past, of the order 1011c to 1012c. This may have been the case during Creation Week and then the light slowed enormously to the present value.
Or
Mystery and miracles! This last option I have to include because the Creator God revealed in the Bible is a God of miracles. It is probably true that if we were looking a miracle in the face we might try to reason a naturalistic mechanism for it. God does intervene in the physical world and during those times the laws of physics are obviously ‘put on hold’ (or rather, added to).
The site is filled with an enormous amount of fun science to explain everything! Now, if only it could explain why I feel the need to go vomit.
