"Creation Museum" Opens In Kentucky

It’s one thing to be ignorant, but it’s another to build a museum to show that ignorance to the world. Apparently that’s the aim of the “Creation Museum” in Petersburg, Kentucky. Theologians and scientists alike will shake their heads at the just plain stupid displays in this monument to silly ideas.

Near the entrance is a diorama of children and dinosaurs playing near each other peacefully. Now this might work in the Flintstones Museum, but to anyone with a brain it’s just dumb. Theologically, a word for word literal interpretation of the Bible is destined to create a crisis of faith. It doesn’t work as a literal work; otherwise there would not be so many conflicts within it. Scientists will tell you that about a million years passed between the last of the dinosaurs and the emergence of humanity. Good thing too, because we would have been easy prey for the giant sauropods.

As a Christian, I find the whole thing insulting and defaming to both Jews and Christians of all stripes. To try to pin my entire faith down to a single book whose contents was codified by a bunch of politicians in the early church is just plain wrong. Add to that disputing both theoretical and empirical evidence of the amazing history of the earth and you really minimize God and God’s power. Fundamentalists who adhere to the literal interpretation of the Bible deceive both themselves and others. I don’t see these folks stoning people who eat shellfish, or killing their children who are disobedient. Neither do I see them making animal sacrifices and observing the Sabbath, so let’s get real. Biblical literalists are just lazy. They’d rather approach religion with a “Big Golden Book of Bible Stories” mentality than actually use the brains God gifted them with and think. The mysteries of creation are a whole lot bigger than this tacky theme park theology in Kentucky. Take a few minutes and scratch the surface of these beliefs and you will find nothing at all.
I guess it is no accident that this mess is in Kentucky. Of course it would probably work just as well here in Texas.