Nick Hodge (aka Uncle Nick from episode ##) sent me this link (edit 2014: link removed due to malware on the linked site) to a story about a couple of rapscallions who infiltrated Ken Ham’s “intellectually depravity: The Creation Museum.”
Ken Ham, for those of you who don’t know, grew up in my home state of Queensland (there’s something I don’t often admit) and who is one of the main forces behind the creationist movement in the USA. In May 2007 he opened his $27 million “museum” which depicts humans living alongside dinosaurs. It’s a theme park for fundamentalists to further warp the minds of their children.
The question I am left with though is whether or not this guy is the real deal or a fabulous charlatan? I have to admit that quite a few times over the years I’ve thought about how easy it would be to fleece the gullible. Whenever I see a Benny Hinn or a Ken Ham I have to wonder… are they deliberately preying on the weak-minded and the gullible? Ever see that Steve Martin film “Leap Of Faith“? Something like that. It would be so easy to do. Much easier than trying to convince the world to prefer rational thinking over mythology.
You obviously will delete this before it is posted but here goes anyway.
If you believe the bible, then you will agree with what this man says. Dinosaurs and ‘million years’ are just another religion that is Anti-God. God is missing from our lives. Sorry for imposing morality on you but this is what is wrong with the world today.
ps. I’m proud he has the guts to do what he has done. Proud to call him a fellow Aussie.
Jo
Jo,
Well you’re wrong on a number of counts. And right about one.
WRONG:
1) I didn’t delete your comment.
2) Dinosaurs aren’t religion. They are supported by evidence and have nothing to do with anti-God.
RIGHT:
God is missing from our lives. Why? He/she/it doesn’t exist.
27 million dollars wasted, twenty million dollars on promoting idiocy, even when I was christian I wasn’t as mentally backward as these guys.