Creationist Museum: Believe It or Not

“T. Rex Meets Biblical Text at Museum” (Dec. 9), on the Answers in Genesis museum opening in Kentucky, glosses over some of the problems a purely creationist view of reality encounters. A good example is “Creationists . . . remind their children that they believe all animals were vegetarians . . . before man’s sins brought violence into the world.”

One might wonder why man’s sin affected animals in the first place. Why are carnivores so different inside, relative to herbivores? Could today’s lion subsist on asparagus instead of antelope? Why the lack of vegetation-processing teeth?

Did the physical changes between carnivorous living and vegetarian existence occur overnight, the night Adam and Eve were tossed from the garden? Or did the differences, dare I bring it up, “evolve” over a long period of time? Longer, even, than six days. It’s in the details that the “science” in creation science becomes willful ignorance.

A correction: Evolution is a fact. The mechanism by which it works is the theory--a testable theory that grows stronger with each examination. Creation can’t be tested. It can only be believed, which is not a reasonable approach to reality.

Paul J. Burke

Palmdale

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How sad and shocking to learn that so many people believe the biblical account of creation. When these people go to the doctor would they accept Ancient Roman medicine? Would they live and work in buildings designed over 2,000 years ago? Why do they accept scientific theory from people who thought the Earth was flat?

Alex Magdaleno

Camarillo

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The Cincinnati area just got a new museum. Why not capitalize on this momentum for enlightenment and build another: the Museum of the Excesses of Religious Fundamentalism. Right next to the exhibit about the Taliban, they can place a sign offering directions to another outlying exhibit down the road in Kentucky, the Creation Museum & Family Discovery Center.

David Crain

Reseda