Ethics

Nightline on Creationist Museum Tours

By Ed Brayton

Nightline did a story on a couple of young earth creationists who take homeschooled kids on museum tours and feed them nonsense like this:

They said the T-Rex was vegetarian because at the time of the Creation, there was no such thing as death, so a T-Rex could not have eaten meat. There was no death until Adam and Eve ate forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, they continued, and God's revenge was to curse the world with death.

Jack asked, "If this creature was designed to eat meat from the very start, what would he have to do until Adam and Eve sinned and death entered the world? What would he have to do?" The children replied in chorus, "Starve."

"Fast and pray for The Fall. Is that likely?" Jack asked. "The answer is, everyone look at me and say, 'No.' Try that with me.'"

"No!" the children replied.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).