Saturday, October 11, 2008
The Creation Museum packs in the crowds
PostGazette: "The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pure Hollywood: a state-of-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah's Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint."
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It's amazing to me the magnitude of display this is and the expenditures that occur in this "realm" of the entertainment industry. The more I read about big companies the more I realize how big this market really is and how much they're willing to spend to do it right.
For people who don't believe in science, they sure do use a lot of technology.
I don't think I could ever bring myself to work on a project like this, no matter how much bank someone threw at me.
This reminds me of a theatre company in nowhere, PA which I learned of once on a plane going home from CMU. they were a cristian company which used extreme high technology to portray stories like Noah;s Ark. THey used live animals as well as digital projections which were so good that you couldnt tell the difference. they also used infusions of smell etc to embodythe whole audience, or so I heard.
I think that while its great to have this kind of technology, i wish it could be put out to a greater audience. I also agree with rmclausand in that they use a lot of technology for not believing in science...
Regardless of the technology involved, these museums disgust me. They spend a lot of money to disguise the fact that they have no actual evidence for anything that they propose. You can spend as much money on animatronic dioramas that show that humans and dinosaurs live together, it doesn't make it true.
I guess I support the inclusion of alternate views in museums. I mean, people have access to many museums that preach the scientific approach to evolution and it does seem fair to have a museum that displays a different way of thinking. However, I personally don't agree with the creation theory, and I think that the display might confuse some children.
Let me start of by saying I'm a devote atheist. That being said, I can agree with Megan here in one sense: That they should be allowed to portray their own beliefs in an appropriate forum. However, a museum, which is a venue that has been historically be considered a place that holds science and historical fact in the highest regard we know possible, should remain that way. Calling this a "museum" is a misnomer -- its more like a story book come to life.
I'm not quite sure what this trend is towards high technology in Christianity recently. We have these MEGA churches in the midwest with millions of dollars of AV gear that have turned Sunday service into more of a rock concert and a spectacle than anything else. We've got a "fake" museum that cost $27 million to build -- I'm a little confused. Forgetting filling kids minds with incorrect and fantastic notions of the scientific world, does anyone else get the feeling the Christian faith can't sustain a membership on its own anymore?
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