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New museum says dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark

 
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AmirN



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PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2007 1:02 pm    Post subject: New museum says dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark Reply with quote

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070526/us_nm/usa_museum_dc


New museum says dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark



By Andrea Hopkins





PETERSBURG, Ky (Reuters) - Like many modern museums, the newest U.S. tourist attraction includes some awesome exhibits -- roaring dinosaurs and a life-sized ship.


But only at the Creation Museum in Kentucky do the dinosaurs sail on the ship -- Noah's Ark, to be precise.

The Christian creators of the sprawling museum, unveiled on Saturday, hope to draw as many as half a million people each year to their state-of-the-art project, which depicts the Bible's first book, Genesis, as literal truth.

While the $27 million museum near Cincinnati has drawn snickers from media and condemnation from U.S. scientists, those who believe God created the heavens and the Earth in six days about 6,000 years ago say their views are finally being represented.

"What we've done here is to give people an opportunity to hear information that is not readily available ... to challenge them that really you can believe the Bible's history," said Ken Ham, president of the group Answers in Genesis that founded the museum.

Here exhibits show the Grand Canyon took just days to form during Noah's flood, dinosaurs coexisted with humans and had a place on Noah's Ark, and Cain married his sister to people the earth, among other Biblical wonders.

Scientists, secularists and moderate Christians have pledged to protest the museum's public opening on Monday. An airplane trailing a "Thou Shalt Not Lie" banner buzzed overhead during the museum's opening news conference.

Opponents argue that children who see the exhibits will be confused when they learn in school that the universe is 14 billion years old rather than 6,000.

"Teachers don't deserve a student coming into class saying 'Gee Mrs. Brown, I went to this fancy museum and it said you're teaching me a lie,"' Dr. Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, told reporters before the museum opened.

A Gallup poll last year showed almost half of Americans believe that humans did not evolve but were created by God in their present form within the last 10,000 years.

Three of 10 Republican presidential candidates said in a recent debate that they did not believe in evolution.



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I am not sure whether I should laugh or cry. Laugh at the stupidity of such people, or cry that such stupidity is contagious and is bound to be passed to the nation’s children.

One question emerges from the whole “dinosaurs being present on Noah’s Ark” theory. That is, just how big was this ark, in order to accommodate all of these humungous animals? Imagine two of all the different species of dinosaurs, all in one Ark! The Titanic must have looked like a lifeboat next to this Ark. Such is the ship-building power of God. Praise the Lord!

Poor Noah. The guy was shoveling dinosaur poop for what must have seemed an eternity on this boat. Can you imagine?

What they don’t mention is that there were also two dragons, two unicorns, two minotaurs, two big-feet, and two griffins on this “love boat.”


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PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2007 2:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AmirN, you never do seem to miss an opportunity to mock Christians for all their worth. I suppose you take some sick pleasure in flaunting your "highly evolved" mind over those you deem as lesser evolved beings. As the polls show, half of Americans disbelieve what I would call the silliest theory in the history of science: evolution. My point being that there are just as many of us as there are of you. Indeed, according to that same poll, 51% of the USA disbelieves in evolution, making us a majority. Uh OH! That might come as a shock to you but ponder on this: Throughout the entire history of the world, there has always been a majority that believed in a higher power. People like you have always been a minority. Always.

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That is, just how big was this ark, in order to accommodate all of these humungous animals? Imagine two of all the different species of dinosaurs, all in one Ark! The Titanic must have looked like a lifeboat next to this Ark.


Well, I'll give you credit, you do have some semblance of a brain (apparently the theory of evolution hasn't yet completely de-evolved you). You are correct that dinosaurs are very large... but as many a creationist will tell you, "The big ones were big, but the small ones were small." In other words, Noah didn't have to take full grown dinosaurs on board the ark. In fact, Noah didn't have to take full grown animals of any kind on board the ark. His only instructions were to take two of every kind and 7 of each clean (edible) animal for a period of over 6 months.

I personally am glad that another creationist museum is opening. It reminds people that evolution is not science. And that Science and the Bible are entirely harmonious. It also reminds people that evolution is still (as it always has been) a theory. In real science, when a theory doesn't work, you get a new theory. But these crazy evolutionists simply refuse to change their theory! Anytime they find something wrong with their (precious) theory, they modify it. Do you know how many times in the last 30 years evolutionists have "modified" the theory of evolution? Look it up, it is sure to be an eye opening experience! But the most eye opening of all is how many "missing links" (the rest of the world calls this "religion") there are and continue to be exponentially added whenever the theory of evolution is "modified." Good luck filling in all the billions of gaps you guys keep creating!

But personally I take MY religion gap-free.

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PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2007 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


Dr. Brian Alters is an international
leader in education and author of the best-selling book Defending Evolution in the Classroom.


Source: http://www.nih.gov/nihrecord/07_28_2006/story03.htm
Dr. Brian Alters is an international leader in education and the author of the best-selling book Defending Evolution in the Classroom. He holds dual appointments with McGill University in Montreal and Harvard University. He is also founder and director of the Evolution Education Research Center at McGill.

“Overall, the nation has a big problem,” said Alters. “Approximately half of the U.S. population thinks evolution does (or did) not occur. While 99.9 percent of scientists accept evolution, 40 to 50 percent of college students do not accept evolution and believe it to be ‘just’ a theory,” he reported.



Dr. Robin Bush, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of California at Irvine, collaborates with scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using computational techniques and phylogenetic methods to study the evolution of influenza viruses.

Evolution and Infectious Diseases

Dr. Robin Bush, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of California at Irvine, collaborates with scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using computational techniques and phylogenetic methods to study the evolution of influenza viruses.
Bush said the simplest type of phylogenetic tree has three taxa (divergent groups) that evolved from a common ancestor. “Think of it as a parent with three children,” she explained. The length of the branches indicates genetic distance or the number of nucleotide changes that have occurred. A phylogenetic tree of the Orthomyxoviridae family of influenza viruses shows that strains A, B and C have all come from a common ancestor. All three infect humans. Strain A also infects pigs, horses and birds.

Her research focuses on the genes that code for surface proteins of the viral coat and how they evolve in response to the host’s immune system. Hemagglutinin (HA) is needed for host receptor binding and host cell membrane fusion. Neuraminidase is needed for viral release from the host cell. There are a number of genetic variants for each of these proteins (H and N lead to such designations as H5N1). In humans, these proteins are constantly under attack by the immune system; in response, they have evolved very rapidly within humans, said Bush.

Bush uses phylogenetic trees to study changes in HA and to look for patterns between strains. She hopes to predict which strains may be responsible for the next year’s flu and design more effective and better-targeted vaccines.

Videocasts of the lecture series can be found at http://videocast.nih.gov/ and at http://www.nigms.nih.gov/News/Meetings/EvolutionSeries/.
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