I had the wonderful privilege of attending the grand opening of the Creation Museum yesterday and it was truly spectacular. Designed by a former Universal Studios exhibit director, the museum does a wonderful job of clearly defining the literal view of Genesis, defining what special creation is, why there is suffering on the earth today, and also presents the clear and Biblical plan of salvation. A great point is made throughout as well that there is no such thing as "brute facts", but rather, all facts are interpreted. Since Creationists have a different starting point (God created) than Evolutionists (Atheism/Agnosticism), the same scientific facts are therefore interpreted differently.
On a rather humorous note, we were met at the Museum's entrance by about 100 protester's (see pictures below) "warning" us about going in to the museum. Secular society seems to possess and preach one single virtue, tolerance, and from the looks of things yesterday they aren't doing a very good job of upholding their single virtue. Amidst the hate messages, put downs and profanity that was being spewed by this (in)tolerant group (Note that some signs below equate teaching Creation to children as child abuse, and one calls home schooling child abuse) I decided to pull over to take a few pictures. I planned on saying nothing, but one man called out to me and asked me if I was going to the museum. When I answered in the affirmative he told me to be very critical when I go in there. I asked the man if he'd heard of the Scientific Dissent From Darwinism. He replied that there was no such thing. I kindly told him to Google that phrase and be enlightened. He was speechless. I have since learned that there is also an organization called "Doctors doubting Darwin."
It's amazing, but judging from the signs upheld and some of the ignorant comments, many of these folks have evidently blindly followed the lemmings off of the cliff on this issue. They literally have no idea that there is a mountain of science behind Creationism, nor do they realize that there are many scientists behind Creationism as well. I truly felt sorry for these spiritually blind souls. By the looks of some of their faces they really felt they were doing a service of some sort. Romans 1:21-22 speaks about such people:
"Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead."
On one final humorous note, as we got out of our van we were noticing the airplane flying overhead (pictured below) with banner in tow that said: "DEFCON Says: Thou shalt not lie!" I looked at my wife and said, "What's DECON?" She informed me that DECON was rat poison and the word was "DEFCON". How oddly appropriate.
I'll bet that was a blast! I am looking forward to packing up those procreated in my own image and heading down there soon.
ReplyDeletethe signs being held up in the last photo are very telling.
ReplyDeleteIt displays the mindset of Atheistic Evolutionists and also shows the methods they will use in the future to try and silence Christians:
1. By making laws forbidding the teaching of Creationism and Christianity to Children because they will consider it "Child Abuse"
2. By making laws forbidding homeschooling also making that a form of "Child Abuse"
Sound crazy? It is already happening in Germany, where a teenage girl was taken from her Christian parents by the government and placed in a mental facility, the reason? The government said homeschoooing her was child abuse and had cuased the girl to become mentally unbalanced because she did not want to attend a public High School.
This is the same way that Christians were percieved during the Christian persecutions in ancient Rome.
Stand Fast in the faith that was first delivered unto you!
You’re exactly right bro - it will all come under the guise of 'hate crimes' and 'child abuse'. These are truly the days prophesied in Scripture when men would call what is good - evil, and call what is evil - good.
ReplyDeleteFYI - I wondered what DefCon was after seeing the photo with the aerial message. A search engine brings up this group: "DefCon is an online grassroots movement combating the growing power of the religious right. We will fight for the separation of church and state..." www.defconamerica.org/
ReplyDeleteHey E,
ReplyDeleteDEFCON is a military term for defense condition. This is what you saw in the movie War Games. The defcon level got down to the point that it almost started WWIII.
Yeah - this "defcon" supposedly stands for "defenders of the Constitution", but more accurately, "delirious constituency" ;^)
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you're still going strong with your blanket judgments Myself, I'm now a very happy Catholic. And still a firm believer in evolution (probably another reason Protestants hate us and call us the whore of Babylon I'm sure), and the world makes sense once again. Our past emails actually helped me weed out what I don't believe, so it was a good thing. Call me misled if you so choose, but I've begun to finally figure out God. And differentiate between God and human's made up crap.
ReplyDeleteNote, though, that I am not contesting the opening of this museum. I do believe in tolerance, of all kinds. I may not like it, but heck, open up all the bogus museums you want. As long as religion stays out of public schools, I'm happy. There's nothing wrong with separating church and state. If you want religious education you can homeschool or private school them, nothing wrong with that. I don't like picketing unless there's actual injustice.
Hello again Miss Emily - the problem, as I recall, was that you don't accept the authority of the Bible, aka, God's Word. As long as that's the case I don't suppose you and I will see eye to eye on very many things.
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