At 10:12 AM 4/28/2010, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote:
Speaking of OT stories and other enduring mythologies, I suggest the
following blog entry from the Science Fiction author John Scalzi:
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/12/your-creation-museum-report/
Cool. Let me quote this from his assessment of the pile of horseshit:
There have to be people who believe this
horseshit unreservedly, but I suspect that
perhaps the majority of the visitors I saw were
Christians who may not buy into the whole six
days thing, but are curious to see how its
being presented. To be clear, the horseshit
Ive been speaking of is not Christianity, its
creationism, which to my mind is a teleological
quirk substantially unrelated to the grace one
can achieve through Jesus Christ.
Now, the Creation Museum rather emphatically
argues that a literal reading of the Bible is
essential for true Christianity its got a
whole red-lit section that suggests the ills of
society are directly related to folks deciding
that maybe some parts of the Bible are, you
know, metaphorical but thats just more
horseshit, of a slightly different flavor. There
are lots of Christians who clearly dont need to
twist their brain like a pretzel to get around
the idea that the universe is billions of years
old and that weve evolved from earlier forms.
For those folks, the Creation Museum is probably
about culture, to the extent any installation
largely created by someone who previously worked
for Universal Studios can be about culture.
In other words, these are religious fanatics,
pulling and tugging on the thinking of people
(who often don't really understand their own
religion), for politicasl or sectarian purpose.
