A Creationist Tour Through The Denver Museum of Nature and Science
ABC Nightline News Series ‘Faith Matters’ Reports A Creationist Tour Through the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Upon publishing this article, we realized this video actually tours the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and not the Creation Museum in Kentucky. We readily admit our fault and apologize. The video below features two young-earth creationists leading a tour group of home-schooled Christians through the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Creationists claim that science and research have it wrong. Two young earth creationists educate their tour group from the biblical point of view, a view that doesn’t need to be explained by science. The museum does contain dinosaur fossils, but tour guides present them as either remnants of the Great Flood or pure decoration.
ABC Nightline films portions of a creationist tour through the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and sits down with two of the tour guides as well as the museum’s curator. Brian Rooney reports.
ABC Nightline News Series ‘Faith Matters’ - 9min 21sec
According To The Creationist tour guides in the video above…
- About 7 generations of people lived for about 800 years, but they ‘could be wrong’. If they’re not, that’s 5,600 years of 800-year old life spans. According to creationists, the earth is only 6,000 to 10,000 years old. Doesn’t leave much time for recorded history, does it?
- There is an exhibit explaining the process of radio and carbon dating, but it’s not part of the tour. “We can’t cover everything” claims one tour guide. He goes on to claim that all dating methods are based on assumptions.
- Science that doesn’t support their faith is not good science
- Many people on the tour seek reinforcement for what they already believe. Ok, that one’s obvious.
The museum’s curator believes in evolution and studies fossils for a living (understandably). He doesn’t agree with the creationist tours, but he tolerates them.
Thanks to Skeptical Eye for finding the video.
My understanding of the video is that it takes place at an actual natural history museum in Denver, but the tour guides are not affiliated with the museum. They bring kids through and warp the science to fit their biblical world view. The actual creation museum in KY would never allow anyone to work there that didn’t believe or at least espouse a belief.
Written by Joe on April 13th, 2008Thank you for the comment, Joe; you are correct. Apologies to anyone who has been misled by the title, as we’ve slightly updated this post to better reflect the video featured in it.
Written by Ted Goas on April 13th, 2008Yes, sir, there are some problems with the Creationist view!
This is an extremely sad video to watch. I think it would make for a very interesting study to follow children raised in that kind of environment and see if they retain the same mindset when they become adults. I bet many of them do.
Nice website, by the way
Written by James Tracy on May 9th, 2008This video is proof that children should not be allowed to be home schooled. They do not know how to socialize, they do not get a well rounded education and the narrow minded views of their parents limits their understanding of everything. If you read the Bible Exodus 35:2 God demands we kill everyone who works on the Sabbath day. Deuteronomy 21:18 God demands that we kill disobedient teenagers. Exodus 21:20 It is ok to sell your daughter into slavery. Deuteronomy 22:13 God demands we kill girls who are not virgins when they marry. It is plain to see you can not take the Bible as fact, it is a story book. I could go on but obviously the Creationists have not read the entire Bible!
Written by David Sutton on June 29th, 2008It’s no wonder that intelligent people will never know the joys of Christianity. It’s these idiot fundamentalists who ruin it for everyone. The scientists are RIGHT about the way things progressed throughout history. The Bible only really tells us WHY the world was created, it is up to science to tell us HOW. There are many passages in the Bible that are not meant to be taken literally. This museum is the largest most expensive monument to human stupidity I have ever seen. I can’t believe they can call this garbage “science”. I doubt any of these morons have one respectable college degree to their name. They probably didn’t even graduate high school. This is an insult to anyone God gave a functioning brain to. Damn fundie hicks!
Written by Heather Yin on October 7th, 2008