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Wednesday, August 5th, 2020

At the evangelical Creation Museum, dinosaurs lived alongside humans and the world is 6,000 years old

Author:     William Trollinger and Susan L Trollinger
Source:     Alter Net
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Link: At the evangelical Creation Museum, dinosaurs lived alongside humans and the world is 6,000 years old
Stephan:   I don't think it is possible to really understand Trumpers without understanding that a large number of them do not live in a fact-based world, and you cannot reason with them. They don't believe in evolution, but they do believe the world is only 6,000 years old, and that dinosaurs and humans once co-existed together on the earth, and that the Bible is inerrant. That, I think, is why they believe Trump and not the world's entire scientific establishment. It makes no sense, but good sense is not the operative factor.

Summer travel in the United States has slowed but not stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Among those destinations that have recently reopened is, as of June 8, is the Creation Museum, a museum dedicated to promoting the Biblical story of Genesis as historic and scientific fact.

More than this, the Creation Museum offers a window into the ideas and workings of the American religious right.

Adam, Eve and the dinosaurs

Evangelical Christians make up approximately 25% of the U.S. population. A majority of them think the Bible should be read literally and that evolution is false.

The Creation Museum, about which we wrote a book in 2016, promotes a very specific version of this belief, which holds that God made the universe in six 24-hour days about 6,000 years ago.

The first four chapters of the book of Genesis tell the story of Adam and Eve, who were created on the sixth day and given two jobs: to obey God and populate the Earth. When they […]

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2 Comments

  1. Beth Alexander on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 7:56 am

    The link to the full article has been corrected.

  2. Rev. Dean on Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:16 am

    History is always changing when archeologists and anthropologists make new discoveries which overturn what is known by new information. I have seen many studies which suggest that humans have been here for millions or maybe billions of years.