Creationism museum opening in Kentucky

This week the Creation Museum opened in Kentucky, you can read about it here. As a geoscientist this news may have affected me more than others, and I believe this is an abhorrent event. Of course, I had heard about the museum before it opened, knew it was going to open, and knew that people would go. The worst thing about the museum is that it uses continuous faulty evidence in trying to explain it's case, and if the teachings at the museum are correct, my entire educational background would be completely wrong. Obviously, I wouldn't have studied for many years if I felt it was a waste of time and therefore think that this museum is an enormous step backwards for American society. There is room in society for religion & science to coexist and I don't believe, in this case, that science is trying to undermine Christianity.

The museum's premise is taken from a mostly Christian fundamentalist literal translation of the Bible (specifically the book of Genesis) where God created the world in seven days and humans were created in their current form at that time and that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old. There are several variations of this and all are grouped under some form of creationism. The museum's main objective is to undermine the theory of evolution. Creationism's central tenet is that all living things were created at the same time and in their current form and the classic example is that humans were living at the same time as the dinosaurs. Apparently one of the exhibits even shows that during that time the dinosaurs were vegetarians and therefore did not eat humans.....A truly amazing (and ridiculous) idea!

Creationists have a response for every example I could give but they are ignoring many scientific aspects of how rocks have been and are being deposited. If you wanted you could go sit on a riverbank (of a river that has not been dammed by humans) and see how sand, and gravel, and dead organisms are deposited. It takes a long time....and even if you brought a cooler full of food you'd die there waiting for things to significantly change because it happens so slowly and in spurts (of course, if you were there for a flood you may see a large change, but then you might become a deposit as well). Using observation of the deposition of modern materials (sand, gravel, dirt, etc.) and several radiometric dating techniques geoscientists have determined the earth to be several billion years old and it is rather obvious that not all living organisms were living together at the same time, because of an intensely studied fossil record. Fossils from all over the world show that different organisms lived at different times. It's not a conspiracy.

I don't subscribe to a literal translation of the Bible and I do believe in the theory of evolution. And please, don't say "It's just a theory"......so is the "theory" of gravity....and I don't think too many people question gravity. The "evidence" used in the Creation Museum does not adhere to the scientific method. Science is always revising its results as new evidence is discovered and creationism is always revising any of this newly discovered evidence to fit one result. I encourage you to think about these things, ask questions, and don't just believe what anyone tells you.....creationist, scientist, or worse a creationist who calls them self a scientist.