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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
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- 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.
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- Tom Faller
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- 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:
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- ICR's New Museum
- by Dan Phelps
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- 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."
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- 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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