"Museum" of Ignorance

On May 28, the "Creation Museum" in Petersburg, Kentucky, is scheduled to open. This $27 million project, built by an organization of the religious right called "Answers in Genesis," is dedicated to "proving" the fairytale that the Earth - and the Universe - is only 6000 years old. This is just the latest in a string of attempts to make fundamentalist Christianity the official religion of the United States, going against the principles of our constitution, not to mention the truth.

But when has science mattered to people like those in Answers in Genesis? They claim to have the only version of truth; they apparently have a direct line to God so that they can be absolutely certain that their interpretation of the bible is the only correct one. Any group, Christian, Muslim, or otherwise, who claims to have a monopoly on God and truth scares me. There are many interpretations of the bible, and I wouldn't presume to tell anyone that their religious beliefs are wrong - unless they are using those beliefs as a weapon, or claiming them as science.

Dr. Lawrence Krauss, a professor of physics with a Ph.D. that didn't come from the back of a magazine has written a guide for parents to use to help explain to their children that this Creation Museum is very, very wrong. (Please note that I am not saying that God had nothing to do with the creation of the Universe; but that is a matter of faith, NOT science or fact. Faith requires no proof, and it is unable to produce any.) He provides the a list of the Top 10 reasons, in easily understood language, that show that the earth is in fact much, much older than 6000 years (visit www.defconamerica.org for the full text).