From: Thomas Faller Subject: Re: New ICR museum Message-ID: <9211060314.AA16861@lll-winken.llnl.gov> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:14:05 CST Actually, any museum will do, if you're a creationist. I saw a great exhibit in Cincinnati a couple of years ago which had many of the "new" views of the dinosaurs and artwork by famous illustrators depicting dinosaur daily life. At the end, there was an upright, featherless biped, clearly sauran in features and origin, representing what might have been if the dinosaurs had evolved a humanoid species. One young lad of about 12 was watching it with me, and as his mother caught up, he rushed over a little anxiously and asked, "Mom, that's not.. that's not really real, is it?" Mom said, "Of course not, son. We believe in Creation." Hope you enjoyed the tour, ma'm. Tom Faller From: BLANTON@VAX2.DSEG.TI.COM Subject: New ICR museum Message-ID: <9211052121.AA01247@lll-winken.llnl.gov> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:47:57 -0600 Things are slow on the forum today. Here's something to liven it up a bit: ICR's New Museum by Dan Phelps Readers of The Skeptic who enjoy museums of pseudoscience, such as Carl Baugh's Creation Evidences Museum, may wish to visit The Institute for Creation Research's (ICR) Museum of Creation and Earth History in El Cajon, California. According to ICR's August '92 Acts & Facts and Impact newsletters, a 4000 square foot creation museum is now open at ICR headquarters. From the pictures in their newsletter, the museum appears to be a big-budget operation. Unlike Reverend Carl Baugh and his crude exhibits, the ICR seems to have spared no expense in its lavish displays. The displays include live animals "illustrating the fifth and sixth days of Creation Week", "exhibits centered around the Fall and the Curse", a room representing the inside of Noah's Ark during the Flood Year (presumably sans animal poop), a model of the Grand Canyon, a realistic cave and a large model of the Tower of Babel. The creationists title their museum "A Walk Through History" and describe the tour thus -- "... with visitors taking a tour through the newly created universe, then the Garden of Eden, followed by entrance into the regime of sin and death. Then they enter Noah's Ark, emerging from the Ark into the greatly changed post-diluvian world, with great fossil beds, volcanoes, and river canyons." "Soon they experience a world affected by the great Ice Age, after which they enter the domain of pagan pantheistic evolutionism, centered in the Tower of Babel and its confusion of tongues, with tribes scattering thence all over the world with their false religion, as learned in Babylon. Artifacts recording these ancient cultures and migrations are seen as viewers pass, along with fossils of early men and animals of the so-called Pleistocene Epoch." The museum then turns to New Testament themes and the creationist's odd view of Medieval to recent world history and the history of science. The tour ends with "A closing gospel message urges any unsaved visitors to accept Christ and look forward to His soon return to complete all His purpose in creation and redemption." Most of us had hoped that redemption could be reached without embracing pseudoscience in this fashion. Anyhow, the tour is free, but there is a bookstore at the exit at which visitors are encouraged to purchase books and tapes. Further information can be had by calling the museum office (619-448-0900, ext. 44) or by writing the ICR at P.O. Box 2667, El Cajon, California 92021 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | John Blanton | | Secretary, North Texas Skeptics | | blanton@mcopn1.dseg.ti.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+