More War on Science fun with a field trip to Crazytown, where the current Mayor is creationist paleontologist Kurt Wise, currently working as a consultant for the Creation Museum in Florence, KY.Baptist Press:
In Kurt Wise's office at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary you can find fossils that secular scientists claim are billions of years old and are part of the long process of man's evolution.
But this Harvard-trained paleontology expert is out to show a better explanation for fossils -- and why neither science nor the Bible allow for evolution. That's why Wise, director of the Center for Theology and Science and professor of theology and science at Southern, also has agreed to serve as a consultant for the Creation Museum in Florence, Ky., near Cincinnati.
The museum, scheduled to open in April 2007, will feature 50,000 square feet and more than 250 exhibits countering the errors of evolutionary science and demonstrating the reliability of the first 11 chapters in Genesis.
I've always wondered why young earth creationists mention fossils at all. If the Earth is only 6,000 years old (which is what young earthers claim), where did they come from? They use the fossil record to criticize evolution, but they have no fossils of modern creatures -- where's the pig fossil, the chicken fossil, the dog fossil? If all these organisms have been here since the gitgo, where are their fossils? And there are no fossils showing carved bone -- primitive fish hooks and sewing needles we find in an unfossilized state. If it only takes 6,000 years for things to fossilized, where are they? Why is it that very few animals that aren't extinct have been fossilized?
These questions are better off ignored, which is what Wise basically advises...
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