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From: Thomas Faller <tomfal@TR6.WES.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Re: New ICR museum
Message-ID: <9211060314.AA16861@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:14:05 CST
Actually, any museum will do, if you're a creationist. I saw a great exhibit
in Cincinnati a couple of years ago which had many of the "new" views of
the dinosaurs and artwork by famous illustrators depicting dinosaur daily
life.
At the end, there was an upright, featherless biped, clearly sauran in
features and origin, representing what might have been if the dinosaurs had
evolved a humanoid species.
One young lad of about 12 was watching it with me, and as his mother caught
up, he rushed over a little anxiously and asked, "Mom, that's not.. that's
not really real, is it?"
Mom said, "Of course not, son. We believe in Creation."
Hope you enjoyed the tour, ma'm.
Tom Faller
From: BLANTON@VAX2.DSEG.TI.COM
Subject: New ICR museum
Message-ID: <9211052121.AA01247@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:47:57 -0600
Things are slow on the forum today. Here's something to liven
it up a bit:
ICR's New Museum
by Dan Phelps
Readers of The Skeptic who enjoy museums of pseudoscience, such as
Carl Baugh's Creation Evidences Museum, may wish to visit The
Institute for Creation Research's (ICR) Museum of Creation and
Earth History in El Cajon, California. According to ICR's August
'92 Acts & Facts and Impact newsletters, a 4000 square foot
creation museum is now open at ICR headquarters. From the pictures
in their newsletter, the museum appears to be a big-budget
operation. Unlike Reverend Carl Baugh and his crude exhibits, the
ICR seems to have spared no expense in its lavish displays. The
displays include live animals "illustrating the fifth and sixth
days of Creation Week", "exhibits centered around the Fall and the
Curse", a room representing the inside of Noah's Ark during the
Flood Year (presumably sans animal poop), a model of the Grand
Canyon, a realistic cave and a large model of the Tower of Babel.
The creationists title their museum "A Walk Through History" and
describe the tour thus -- "... with visitors taking a tour through
the newly created universe, then the Garden of Eden, followed by
entrance into the regime of sin and death. Then they enter Noah's
Ark, emerging from the Ark into the greatly changed post-diluvian
world, with great fossil beds, volcanoes, and river canyons."
"Soon they experience a world affected by the great Ice Age, after
which they enter the domain of pagan pantheistic evolutionism,
centered in the Tower of Babel and its confusion of tongues, with
tribes scattering thence all over the world with their false
religion, as learned in Babylon. Artifacts recording these ancient
cultures and migrations are seen as viewers pass, along with
fossils of early men and animals of the so-called Pleistocene
Epoch." The museum then turns to New Testament themes and the
creationist's odd view of Medieval to recent world history and the
history of science. The tour ends with "A closing gospel message
urges any unsaved visitors to accept Christ and look forward to His
soon return to complete all His purpose in creation and
redemption."
Most of us had hoped that redemption could be reached without
embracing pseudoscience in this fashion. Anyhow, the tour is free,
but there is a bookstore at the exit at which visitors are
encouraged to purchase books and tapes. Further information can
be had by calling the museum office (619-448-0900, ext. 44) or by
writing the ICR at P.O. Box 2667, El Cajon, California 92021
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| John Blanton |
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