The themes of the [Creation Museum] exhibits resound in the theater presentations: Men in White, Six Days of Creation, The Last Adam, and Dinosaurs and Dragons. Our Special Effects Theater, complete with rumbling seats and rising mists, takes visitors on a fantastic quest to find the real purpose and meaning of life.
Each seat is a rocket launching pad in our Stargazers Planetarium. Prepare for lift-off. The digital projector showcases a spectacular gravity-defying spaceflight, a thrilling 22-minute ride billions of light years away to the vast outer regions of our universe. Breathtaking images and inconceivable distances make this cosmic journey under the dome a fully engaging experience.
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Billions of light years? What’s up with that? I thought we were dealing with about 6,000 years since the Biblical creation.
Idea from Jesus’ General.
Oh, and as long as I’m borrowing, I have a take on a cartoon in the current New Yorker caption contest.
The cartoon depicts Noah’s ark with pairs of animals — including a human pair. There are three potential winning captions (all of them good).
But my version would be the ark with pairs of animals including a pair of dinosaurs. And the dinosaur male says to the female dinosaur, “Don’t tell Noah about the vasectomy.”
(Here’s that particular Cartoon Caption Contest.)
“How was I supposed to know the unicorns were both gay?”
Far be it from me to defend the Creation Museum, or impugn the humorous motives of Cletus or Jesus’ General, but the light year is a measure of distance, not of time. God could have put something billions of light years away with a 6,000 year creation.
God, do I sound like a prick.
things get dicey when distance or time is measured in terms of other things. it’s hard to get the mind around light years. it is much easier to understand lite beers. as in, it is seven lite beers from the time i get home till the time my head hits the pillow. well, when it’s not five. or eight.
Great line oneken, though frankly I can’t understand the concept of lite beers at all. But different strokes …
Ok, so God can make stars that are billions of light years away. Then He can also speed up the speed of light so that it only takes that light 6000 years to travel billions of light years?
If we can see stars that are billions of light years away then they are billions of years old. That’s how long it takes their light to reach us.
There’s one thing I would like to ask the creationists; did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
“If we can see stars that are billions of light years away then they are billions of years old. That’s how long it takes their light to reach us.”
Maybe that tricky God set them up with their light already most of the way here. Such a prankster.