Genesis (pseudo-science) museum opens in Kentucky


A "creationist" museum opens today in Petersburg, Kentucky. It is based on the absurd premise that Genesis is literally true and the earth only 6,000 thousand years old. Scientists know for a fact that the earth is billions of years old.

The agricultural revolution began 10,000 years ago when humans domesticated wild grasses. The oldest known fossils of Homo sapiens (modern humans) are 160,000 years old. ["Oldest Human Fossils Found"] The common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived 5-7 million years ago. Dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago, long before humans of any sort appeared. Fossils of cyanobacteria have been found that are 3.45 billion years old. ["'Oldest ever' fossils found"] The oldest rocks on Earth (the Acasta Gneisses in northwestern Canada) are 4.03 billion years old. [Geologic Time: Age of the Earth] Scientists estimate the age of the earth at about 4.5 billion years. The oldest stars that we can readily observe, in the Milky Way's globular clusters, are 12 to 16 billion years old based on the theory of stellar evolution.

Posted: Monday - May 28, 2007 at 12:12 PM          

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