DADvocate

Recently in Petersburg, KY, near Cincinnati, the Creation Museum opened. The museum reportedly tells the story of creation from a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible. Typically, I laugh/shrug off such things and I do with this.

But some people are quite upset. The BBC even sent a crew to cover the museum. What I love is a couple of the quotes from those offended by the museum. According to the article, Gene Kritsky, evolutionary biologist, says, "At the risk of sounding really mean, it's almost like intellectual molestation."

Intellectual molestation? Is that where you whisper dirty words and suggestive statements into the ear of an unwilling person? Sorry, Gene, you don't sound mean, just stupid. I find the use of "molestation" in this manner to be sign of shallowness in Mr. Kritsky's part. The psychological impact on a child taken through this museum unwillingly by his parents would amount to being mildly upset. Molestation scars one for life.

Kritsky also claims "...they're using dinosaurs as an eye candy." To lure kids into the museum and into the museums mode of thought. Surely, we need a government regulation against this.

Further on the article attributes Edwin Kagin, attorney, who is legal director of American Atheists, with these words. "What they are doing is no less an attack on the very way that science and enlightened thought works to produce the modern world. They want to substitute mythology for knowledge. Ignorance is a form of terrorism."

Terrorism!?!? Well, Kentucky must be full of terrorists because there's plenty of ignorance, such as attorneys who grossly overstate their case. Terrorists kill people, destroy buildings, blow up things, etc. The Creation Museum gives many of us a little chuckle or, again, a very boring tour for a child.

Why is it that atheists feel the need to push their religious point of view with the same fervor, or greater, than any Christian out to convert you?

Cincinnati sports a fine Museum of Natural History and Science. If the Creation Museum upsets you that much send some money to the Museum of Natural History and Science. But, beware, it has dinosaurs too! (And you might have to give up a latte or two.)

Sorry, Mr. Kritshy and Mr. Kagin, you scare me more than the museum. I can teach my children about evolution and science. I don't need City Beat, nor the two of you protecting me from fundamentalist Christians. Fundamentalist Muslims, maybe, but not fundamentalist Christians.