Creation Museum is a balm for believers
My friend Raj sent me this review from the NY Times of the new Creation Museum outside Cincinnati. Gag. The reviewer is far too gentle, IMO - they should have sent someone willing to be more assertive. This, from the review, sums up the whole undertaking:
For the believer, it seems, this museum provides a kind of relief: Finally the world is being shown as it really is, without the distortions of secularism and natural selection.
And this, the only statement in the review that approaches criticism:
But given the museum’s unwavering insistence on belief in the literal truth of biblical accounts, it is strange that so much energy is put into demonstrating their scientific coherence with discussions of erosion or interstellar space. Are such justifications required to convince the skeptical or reassure the believer?
For the full review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html
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