O.K., THIS is a sure sign of the Apocalypse: CANADA's first museum of creation opens in Alberta

[Up2Late]

O.K., now it's starting to get scary when CANADA gets a "Creation Museum" too! But the funny thing is, look at how much less the Canadian museum is compared to the one in Kentucky, $27 Million dollars v. C$300,000 (or $322,005 U.S.)! Hummm, I wonder why that is?

Canada's first museum of creation opens in Alberta

Tue May 29, 2007 2:27AM BST

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Compared with the $27 million (13.6 million pounds) Creation Museum that just opened its doors in Kentucky, Canada's first museum dedicated to explaining geology, evolution and paleontology in biblical terms is a decidedly more modest affair. The Big Valley Creation Science Museum, which opens next week, was built for C$300,000 in the village Big Valley, Alberta, population 308, a two-hour drive northeast of Calgary.

The Canadian museum features displays on how men once walked among dinosaurs, a giant model of Noah's Ark, a set of English scrolls tracing the family of King Henry VI back to the Garden of Eden, and an interactive bacterial flagellum.

The aim is to contest the widely accepted view that the Earth is billions of years old and its flora and fauna, including humans, evolve. The museum, like its peers in the United States, relies on Genesis, the biblical explanation of creation, to explain fossils, geology and humanity's origins.

"We believe the Bible to be true," said Harry Nibourg, the owner of the museum. "We believe evolution fails the facts."

(more at link) <http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKN2547663920070529>

[Swamp Rat]

1. Man, I think I am gonna start my OWN 'Creationist Museum'!

A few Flintstones posters, some glow-in-the-dark dinosaur bones, some cut-out figures of Charlton Heston and Jeebus, some bibles and crosses (can be found for free), and I'm in business!

$$ Here comes the money! $$ Here comes the money! $$ :woohoo:

[melody]

2. Go for it, Swamp

They'll probably make you a local hero. lol

I keep saying I'm going to write a rapture movie and call it "the First Cut". :)

[Up2Late]

9. Hey Swamp Rat, Good to see ya here!

How your rebuilding coming?

You know, I was thinking about this concept of a "Creation Museum" this weekend and you know, it sort of makes sense.

Because, don't most museums mostly contain old, obsolete and/or antique concepts and objects?:think:

[Neshanic]

3. Well it was only 300 grand...paltry compared to our museum of idiocy.

[Dark]

7. Hell Yeah! America's Number 1! Whoo hoo!

nt

[Up2Late]

4. Update: Ky. Creation Museum opens to thousands (AP)

(I just loved that headline so much, I had to use it, eventhough it is the AP, which I despise, so I included a better, un-edited artical from the Louisville Courier-Journal below.)

Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Ky. Creation Museum opens to thousands

The Associated Press

PETERSBURG, Ky. --
A museum that tells the Bible's version of Earth's history - that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago - attracted thousands to its opening as protesters rallied outside.

The dozens of demonstrators argued Monday that the Creation Museum's central tenets conflict with scientific evidence that the Earth is several billion years old. Overhead, an airplane pulled a banner with the message: "Thou Shalt Not Lie."

The privately funded museum had more than 4,000 guests on opening day, said Mark Looy, a co-founder of the $27 million facility 20 miles southwest of Cincinnati. The parking lot was filled with license plates from dozens of states.

"The guests were very happy with the museum experience," Looy said. "Of course, we had some naysayers come through and engage us in conversation, and that's fine - we want them."

(more at link above)

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Creation Museum opens to cheers, jeers

Thousands pay visit, including protesters

By Chris Kenning
[email protected]
The Courier-Journal

PETERSBURG, Ky. -- Amid protesters and television cameras, several thousand visitors lined up yesterday for the opening of the Creation Museum, a $27 million attraction purporting that the Bible's creation story is literal fact supported by science. Visitors watched high-tech animatronic dinosaurs wag their tails next to playing children in a diorama. They examined fossils and skulls, walked through a lush Garden of Eden and watched robotic men hammer on Noah's Ark in advance of God's retribution.

Through a mix of exhibits and displays, they were told that the Grand Canyon was created in the biblical flood; that Noah's animals repopulated continents by floating across oceans on uprooted trees; that the earth is 6,000 years old, not billions; and that poison dart frogs were harmless before Adam's sin.

Some visitors said the 60,000-square-foot museum -- a cross between a natural history museum and a biblical theme park -- reinforced their views that evolution and the Big Bang -- the theory that the universe was created in a giant explosion -- are wrong, despite scientific consensus to the contrary. "If you want to believe you came from animals, that's you," said Paul Aduba, who came from Toledo, Ohio. "But it's a lie."

Outside the gates of the museum, more than 100 protesters, including scientists and humanist groups, held signs that read "Science Not Superstition" and "Don't Brainwash Our Children." One group rented a plane that buzzed the parking lot trailing a sign that read in part, "Thou Shalt Not Lie."

(more at link) <http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070529/NEWS01/705290405>

Btw, here's the link to the post about the $27 Million Dollar Kentucky Creation "museum":

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2859354&mesg_id=2859354>

[Neshanic]

5. It is not a real opening until Jesus on a boat trailer is there.

[Up2Late]

15. It that still traveling the country?

I still like that "Sinking in Quicksand Jesus" Jesus better. (I wish I could find the picture shot from the right profile, but this one make him look like he drowning in the water)



<http://www.solidrockchurch.org/king_ofkings.php>

I'm going to see if they have a good shot of it on Google Maps!

[NoPasaran]

25. Coming.... to a trailer park near you!

[charlie]

11. Those are cineplex numbers

4000 is a terrible start for an attraction that's had the amount of free national publicity it's gotten. Ham will have to rely on his sugar daddies and chartered church bus tours instead of ordinary tourists too keep that thing open.

[kimmylavin]

12. Love the airline banner!

"If you want to believe you came from animals" - Well, I do, sir. I can look at myself and look at animals and see MANY similarities. As for god, since we were created in his image, I've got to know - does the guy pass gas?

And as long as each ticket to this nonsense went for $6700, they're golden! :)

[Dark]

6. Canada?! WTF? This is asinine. That's another C$300,000 that could've done some good.

Isn't there something about giving to the poor in the New Testament?

[Bozita]

8. Personal service for late model BMW owners heading for the Rapture

I will personally hand-carry all of your personal effects/papers from your pampered vehicle to the sinners in your family remaining behind.

Only $99.99.

Or, for an additional $49.95, we can incinerate your personal stuff. Your sinful kin will never know.

Visa/Mastercard/Amex

[Bozita]

14. Always keep your fuel tank topped off.

Jesus views that as a virtue.

[Archae]

10. Way ahead of you...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6557651

[gobblechops]

13. I am leaving my

State because of this museum its gonna brainwash tens of thousands of Kentucky's kids into becoming puppets against there own best interest,Education will suffer funding will suffer this state is gonna suffer.

I mean what future employer is gonna want to come here when there workers are so limited in intellect.
I will not raise my future children in schools that teach this trash,and you can bet they will cause in a few years the fundy parents will lobby for it and get it all because of this brainwash reinforcement.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

16. one word: A-L-B-E-R-T-A

A large portion of Albertans are either first generation immigrants from the United States, or not many generations removed from the United States.
There are more Americans here than there were in the community in California I was raised in!

[AspenRose]

26. Exactly

Calgary = Houston North

[ComerPerro]

17. I could open a Creation Evidence museum for $100,000 US

Purchase a 5x5 foot shed, throw in a copy of the Bible, and pocket the rest.

[gobblechops]

18. lol

You should do some crayon drawings of kids riding dinosaurs while your at it.

[ComerPerro]

19. nah, I'll get a "doctor" from a RW Theocrat diploma mill to draw a sketch

[Kiouni]

20. Thought this would have been in Ave Maria, n/t

[Up2Late]

21. Hey! I was just looking for Ave Maria on Google Maps! I don't see it.

Maybe it's an old picture, but it just looks like a bunch of nothing there right now, and the pictures on the website look fake (or sorry, look like "Artist Renderings" to me.)

Here are the link, if you want to take a look: <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Ave+Maria+Church&sll=26.425262,-81.420901&sspn=0.006505,0.010042&ie=UTF8&ll=26.338961,-81.425514&spn=0.10415,0.160675&t=h&z=13&om=1>

<http://www.avemaria.com/const_updates/default.asp?pgId=1>

[Kiouni]

23. Ha!

I'm sending my deposit for my 200K-500K house right now!

:sarcasm:

[Up2Late]

24. Oh wait, now that the Sun has circled around to the Florida side of the Earth...

...you can see stuff on the "Live Web Cam!" I see buildings!

It still looks like a tiny version of DisneyLand, plopped down in the middle of the everglades though.

Gosh, where do I sign? :sarcasm:

[Up2Late]

28. kick n/t

:kick:

[opihimoimoi]

22. She better be not working on the Sabbath lest she be stoned to death

she might also be stoned for being raped....how is that?

these and other inconsistencies exist in the KJV

[applegrove]

27. :eyes:

:eyes:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

29. God didn't ask human beings to check their brains in at any church door!!!!

Only STUPID human beings make that request.

Good grief!!!!