The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about a group of evangelical Christians in the US, the "Answers in Genesis" ministry, who are going to spend US$20 million to setup a "Creation Museum".
Notably, this will feature an exhibit that:
… will lay responsibility for AIDS on homosexuals. Disease and famine will be portrayed as the byproducts of mankind's fall from grace.
Is that LEGAL???
Additionally:
Animated figures will re-create Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with a Tyrannosaurus rex pursuing them after their fall from grace… Readers may ask how a modern museum could depict dinosaurs and humans cohabiting the Earth when the fossil and geological records show dinosaurs and humans missed each other by about 60 million years. In response to such yawning contradictions, Ham advises people (in one of the many video clips available on the Answers in Genesis website) to offer this omnibus retort: "Were you there?"
Right… While I'm all for different beliefs on how we all got here (creation, evolution, intelligent design, whatever), saying that humans were co-habiting the earth with dinosaurs is just plain wrong. There is lots and lots and lots of fossil evidence that supports the idea of humans (and primates) being a relatively recent inhabitant of our planet. Ken Ham wasn't around when the humans (or Adam and Eve) were allegedly being chased around by a T-Rex, so why is he more correct than the supporters of evolution?
Another scary fact:
In a Gallup poll in 2003, 46 per cent of Americans described themselves as evangelical or born-again Christians. Opinion polls have shown that more Americans believe in creationism than evolution.
People never cease to amaze me…
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