Dinosaurs in Eden? Reality and fantasy obscenely blurred by new Kentucky museum; $27M spent to mislead children

Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs: A new Kentucky museum created by the Answers in Genesis Ministry looks more like Jurassic Park: The Ride than Natural History.

From the NY Times: "Two prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus munches on leaves a few yards away.

What is this, then?

A reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which dinosaurs are friends of inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years? No, this really is meant to be more like one of those literal dioramas of the traditional natural history museum, an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail.

For here at the $27 million Creation Museum, which opens on May 28, this pastoral scene is a glimpse of the world just after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in which dinosaurs are still apparently as herbivorous as humans, and all are enjoying a little calm in the days after the fall. It also serves as a vivid introduction to the sheer weirdness and daring of this museum created by the Answers in Genesis ministry that combines displays of extraordinary nautilus shell fossils and biblical tableaus, celebrations of natural wonders and allusions to human sin. Evolution gets its continual comeuppance, while biblical revelations are treated as gospel.

Outside the museum scientists may assert that the universe is billions of years old, that fossils are the remains of animals living hundreds of millions of years ago, and that life’s diversity is the result of evolution by natural selection. But inside the museum the Earth is barely 6,000 years old, dinosaurs were created on the sixth day, and Jesus is the savior who will one day repair the trauma of man’s fall. It is a measure of the museum’s daring that dinosaurs and fossils — once considered major challenges to belief in the Bible’s creation story — are here so central, appearing not as tests of faith, as one religious authority once surmised, but as creatures no different from the giraffes and cats that still walk the earth.

Fossils, the museum teaches, are no older than Noah’s flood; in fact dinosaurs were on the ark."

Where do I even start with this and how wrong it is to mislead children about the history of the fucking world!

Secular is such a dirty word to these people. Our government should be secular; our public schools should be secular; the teaching and learning of the history of our world should be based on SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE and not based on ANY ONE VERSION of creation!

Shouldn't history be OBJECTIVE?! Shouldn't we learn about EVERYTHING as kids unbiased and make our own decisions from there as we grow up?