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Related: About this forumSan Diego Creation Museum denied membership to Museum Council and Ken Ham isn't happy
September 23, 2015 by Dan Arel
For the second time in two years, the Santee-based Creation Museum (right outside San Diego, CA) was denied membership to the San Diego Museum Council.
Membership includes perks like marketing support, exposure along with other museums in the city and unspecified training.
In 2013, the Creation Museum was denied membership because of the condition of the live animal exhibits. We jumped through all their hoops, Creation Museum president Tom Cantor said of the changes they worked to make.
After re-applying, the new application was again denied.
Of course, Cantor believes this is religious persecution.
We didnt get the majority of votes, which to me confirms the underlying cause which we suspected all along, which is prejudice against creation as an explanation for origins, Cantor said.
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Whatever the case may be with the San Diego creationist museum, we often see prejudice against creationists in academic circles simply because we promote a different view of origins than what is commonly believedand even back it up with solid scientific research. Most evolutionists simply dont want other views being expressed because they dont want people being exposed to the truth about origins, wrote Ken Ham, CEO of the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
Ham, of course, believes this is based on fear. Ham has created this idea in his head that scientists are afraid of people being exposed to creationism.
He is right, though, we do fear people being exposed to creationism because we fear the ultimate dumbing down of society. We fear kids being indoctrinated with such nonsense and screwing up their hopes of a future in which they understand science and instead view the world through the ignorant lenses of young earth creationists.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/09/san-diego-creation-museum-denied-membership-to-museum-council-and-ken-ham-isnt-happy/
STOP PERSECUTING KEN HAM!!!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Uh.... I think I found the problem....
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Like "intelligent design" and "creation science".
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)"prejudice"
Who needs stoopid secular dictionaries when you can make up shit and redefine words to "prove" your theories?
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)over in Religion all the time. Regular buncha Noah Websters, they are..
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)They probably use one of these dictionaries:
http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)They're open to other beliefs, why are we so bigoted against theirs? We may never know.
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)If they want to tar me with the label "bigot" over that, I guess I shouldn't mind.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Just words, it doesn't mean anything coming from them.
progressoid
(50,747 posts)do we get perseciutto ham?
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,583 posts)Basically.....
Creationism is essentially holding on to the idea that every single major university biology, chemistry, paleontology, microbiology, genetics, cosmology, geology and archeology departments are wrong, that tens of thousands of scientists and researchers the world over are wrong, but one small band of desert dwellers from 2500 years ago got it exactly correct.