Media Fear

From the Answers in Genesis website:

A "national embarrassment"

by Ken Ham and Dr. Jonathan Sarfati , AiG, excerpts

February 12, 2005

In one of several recent salvos lobbed by the secular media at AiG–USA and its future Creation Museum, a commentary on the online news service of USA Today (an American national newspaper) declared last week (February 4) that the museum near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA is a "national embarrassment."

Here is Kantor's alarmist scaremongering in his own words:

If we still had an Aristotelian view of the world -- four elements: air, earth, fire, water -- we’d never accept chemistry. Without chemistry, materials science disappears, and with it an untold number of better cars, safer packaging, more-fuel-efficient airplanes and who knows what else.

If we didn’t accept quantum mechanics, we never would have realized how electron orbits worked, or how those electrons give off photons as they 'drop' from one energy level to another. So we wouldn't have lasers. No lasers, no CDs. No DVDs. No laser surgery. No fiber optics. Thomas Edison couldn’t have made a light bulb without understanding oxidation.

It's a shame that Kantor couldn’t mention the incredible MRI technology, since that was pioneered by the creationist Dr. Raymond Damadian.

It was actually the creationist Robert Boyle who fathered modern chemistry and demolished the Aristotelian four-elements theory. He also funded lectures to defend Christianity and sponsored missionaries and Bible translation work.

Lasers depend on electromagnetic radiation theory, which was pioneered by creationist James Clerk Maxwell. More specifically, Einstein, who first proposed the stimulated emission of radiation that's the basis of lasers, frequently acknowledged his debt to Maxwell.

The creationist Wright brothers invented the airplane after studying God’s design of birds.

Oxidation was discovered by Antoine Lavoisier, who was beheaded under the rabidly anti-Christian French "reign of terror" on the grounds that "the Republic has no need of scientists." This is an unambiguous example of persecution of science by an atheistic/deistic régime.

And of course, we had better scratch Newton, Pascal, Joule, Pasteur and the other creationist founders of modern science!

It is true that the Creation Museum is going to be one of those "national embarrassments." It will be an embarrassment to the secular education system (and secular media) that have not taught students to think critically and have indoctrinated them in a false understanding of science and origins. Kantor is a product of such a system. In fact, we fear for the future of technology when generations with people like Kantor become the leaders in this culture. By his "reasoning," he would have suppressed Newton because he wrote more about the Bible than about science!

The Creation Museum will do what the education system should have been doing all along -- teaching people how to think, explaining science correctly and presenting the truth about who we are and how the universe came into being!