The trouble with the $27 million Creation Museum, which replaces the scientific method with word for word Christian Biblical literalist theology, is that it makes all Christians who don't accept evolution look stupid. In doing so in such a publicly visible way it undermines the credibility of all Christians, especially those who are researching alternatives to Darwinian evolution using the tools of the scientific method. It also gives the growing movement of militant atheism, as exemplified by Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett, an easy opportunity to misrepresent all Christians as "irrational." The mainstream media, including the Los Angeles Times in its recent editorial "Yabba-dabba science," are only too happy to lend assistance to this misrepresentation.
No matter which side you may be on, one thing is certain: the world will never be short of extreme wackos.
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