$25 million creation museum being built

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As well all know the bible is your best friend when it comes to factual information. These idiots put aside all fact, reason, and PROOF and build this $25 million dollar building filled with lies that thousands of very impressionable children will be visiting. Praise the lord!

quote:“Americans just aren’t gullible enough to believe that they came from a fish,” he said.

No...they believe an invisible man in the sky made them out of mud and blew on them.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

What an interesting way to waste $25,000,000...

If they want to spend so much money to poison the minds of the young why don't they spend there money on lead and mercury and give it to preschools to play with in stead, its more cost effective and I believe it would have the same anti-science effect.

This is entirely too depressing. If ANY public school tries to get a field trip there I shall be raising Hell.

Well at least they aren't buying guns with it...

They could be using the money to feed the poor, help the homeless, educate the children of third world nations....

[truckfixr]

quote:Originally posted by Aft3r ImaGe:

They could be using the money to feed the poor, help the homeless, educate the children of third world nations....

Think of it as an investment. By providing an interactive environment (regardless that it isn't based on reality) for impressionable kids and misinformed young adults, they stand to expand the number of hard core believers. More believers = more donations.



[This message has been edited by truckfixr (edited 11-09-2006).]

Wow, that's pretty depressing.

*lets out a long sigh*

I wonder what's next.

25 million dollars worth of kindling I say....

A waste of money that could go to a worthier cause... like stem cell research!

quote:Originally posted by The_Big_Beef:

A waste of money that could go to a worthier cause... like stem cell research, or anything else besides the spreading of lies and the propagation of ignorance!

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What are they going to do? buy fossils and hang signs next to them that read "this isn't real"?

that is fucking bullshit and is a sign of what this world is coming to. Fucking bullshit. If I ever have kids then I will raise hell if a school goes on a field trip to one of those bullshit places. That is absouletly fucking ludacris. Christianity is a bunch of bullshit. Rastafarianism is the best religion and its not right that it doesnt get a building and this bullshit religion does

quote:Originally posted by ramoo:

that is fucking bullshit and is a sign of what this world is coming to. Fucking bullshit. If I ever have kids then I will raise hell if a school goes on a field trip to one of those bullshit places. That is absouletly fucking ludacris. Christianity is a bunch of bullshit. Rastafarianism is the best religion and its not right that it doesnt get a building and this bullshit religion does

I think christianity is a bit more believable than rastafarianism. Come on, ethiopia is the promise land??

True, but when's the last time you heard about Rastafarians wasting $25m on a bullshit factory?

quote:Originally posted by Circle-Takes-the-Square:

25 million dollars worth of kindling I say....

*hai5*

[HandOfZek]

Why are you so affronted by people (the money came from private organizations/people, can't they spend their money how they want?) making a museum based on their beliefs just because you disagree with those beliefs? I too disagree with those beliefs (creationism as a whole), but I don't feel threatened at the fact that other people disagree with me and want to prove me wrong.

What you people want is actually censorship.

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Nobody is saying they don't or shouldn't have the right to make the museum. They do, and should. But we also have the right to criticize an investment, and thus that's what we're doing.

Just like we'd criticize someone who'd pay 10 million dollars for dog shit. That isn't censorship, that's an opinion: the opinion that spending 25 million dollars on a creation museum is ridiculous and appalling, much like spending 10 millions dollars on dog shit would.

It's a fucking house of lies that'll be used to warp the minds of kids, who will then grow up thinking that ignorance of our world is an acceptable mindset; when that happens we *all* lose.

They certainly have the right to build their dumbass hut, but fuck... that doesn't mean it shouldn't fall victim to arson.

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quote:Originally posted by HandOfZek:

Why are you so affronted by people (the money came from private organizations/people, can't they spend their money how they want?) making a museum based on their beliefs just because you disagree with those beliefs? I too disagree with those beliefs (creationism as a whole), but I don't feel threatened at the fact that other people disagree with me and want to prove me wrong.

What you people want is actually censorship.

I don't disagree with creating a place that displays ones religious beliefs. What I do disagree with is calling it a museum as if they're presenting factual information that can be proven, which is the purpose of a real museum.

quote:Originally posted by Q777:

If they want to spend so much money to poison the minds of the young why don't they spend there money on lead and mercury and give it to preschools to play with in stead, its more cost effective and I believe it would have the same anti-science effect.

I lol'd.

I'm not really worried. If some stupid, impressionable 6 year old is going to be infected by Christianity, it's not like a museum will do it better than your average Christian parents (or school system).

I think I would rather have kids choose for themselves. If a kid would willingly take Christianity over buddhism/agnosticism/atheism that was forced on him, (however more intelligent choices they are)at least he made the decision himself. On the other hand, most kids aren't allowed to make that decision themselves, their parents do. And if their parents take them to this museum, they will either be smart and rebel or believe in something their parents have already brainwashed them with anyways.

(I'll probably be arrested in the parking lot of that place in a few years for causing a disturbance, either way. :P)

“It’s education"

How can they call that education? "All fossils came from the great floods described in Genesis?" Are you fucking kidding me?

[Duck]

Getting pissed here is the wrong response. it is getting built in rural kentucky, so it is getting built by southern babtists. Nothing at all to worry about.