Theological Ramblings

On memorial day, Answers in Genesis is opening its museum in Kentucky (sweet!) and the subject of Mike McConnell’s radio show has been about the fact that there’s a lot of evolutionists protesting the opening of this museum, for reasons you can guess, and McConnell has been coming down on the side of the museum saying that no matter what it’s their constitutional right to have it, no matter what.

So I wrote the following e-mail to McConnell to rebut his callers:

I am writing regarding the Creation Museum. I think this is the greatest thing in the world. I studied at Cedarville University, which is located about 45 minutes to an hour north of Cincinnati, and took Geology under one Dr. John Whitmore, who has worked closely with Dr. Ken Ham on these issues. I have to respond to the people who keep saying that this museum is not science. That is patently false. The basis of their claim is that, to paraphrase one of your callers yesterday, they are taking the evidence and warping it to support their claim. This is true to a degree, I’ll admit, but the way the caller states it puts an unfair negative spin on it. He acts as though evolutionists never do this, which is absolutely false. No matter who the scientist is - I don’t care if he’s an atheist, a Christian or a Buddhist - whenever he or she performs experiments and does this thing called science, there is always a step in which they interpret what they are seeing. Whoever it is must interpret based on their own suppositions, and not matter who it is, even the most objective person will have some sort of bias involved. These are simply called presuppositions, which are inherent beliefs that a person accepts as true without any proof (because they can’t be proven) and upon which all other conclusions are based. Everyone has them, creationists, evolutionists alike.

What the Creationists in the Answers in Genesis movement (which is not new by the way, they are just now building their museum) are doing is 1) Presenting clearly and concisely their position and interpretation of the issues based on their presupposition that the Bible is true and God did indeed create the world and 2) They often take the evolutionists presuppositions and build their arguments and try to point out inconsistencies within their own argument (and they do a very good job on this in many ways (I can’t think of any examples off the top of my head).

I think it’s absolutely ridiculous for anyone to protest this museum, for the very reasons you stated. As for the ‘teaching it in public schools’ issue. I say if Creation can’t be taught in public schools, evolution shouldn’t be either, because it takes exactly the same amount of faith in exactly the same amount of presuppositions to believe evolution, and there is no more scientific proof for evolution than creationism, and that’s all this museum is trying to show (and of course if God uses this museum to save some people, they’ll rejoice over that too), but they’re not out to force anyone into anything, or dupe anyone in any way. The way evolutionists act is very much brainwashing. They want kids to think that their religion (and evolutionism is really a religion with self as the deity) is the only one that’s even an option, and if you believe differently then you’re a heretic, so they try to stifle any opposing voice.

I happen to be very favorable to this museum. Of course… I am a Christian…. oops… I guess my voice doesn’t count.

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