{"id":78,"date":"2005-05-23T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/creationist-museum-part-3\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T14:05:34","slug":"creationist-museum-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/creationist-museum-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationist museum part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/recline.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Reclining with dinosaur\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve posted before (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/10\/creationist-museum-to-open\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/10\/more-on-creationist-museum-follow-up\/\">2<\/a>) about the $25 million Creation Museum set to open near Cincinnati, Ohio. Yesterday&#8217;s Cincinnati Enquirer has a long profile of founder Ken Ham. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.enquirer.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050522\/NEWS01\/505220367\">article<\/a>, Jerry Falwell says that Ham is &#8220;the most informed creationist in America&#8221; and that the museum is &#8220;going to be a mini-Disney World.&#8221; From the Enquirer article, here are a few of Ham&#8217;s beliefs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Earth is about 6,000 years old, a figure arrived at by tracing the biblical genealogies, and not 4.5 billion years, as mainstream scientists say.<\/li>\n<li>The Grand Canyon was formed not by erosion over millions of years, but by floodwaters in a matter of days or weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Dinosaurs and man once co-existed (see above photo), and dozens of the creatures &#8211; including T-rex &#8211; were passengers on the ark built by Noah, who was a real man, not a myth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted before (1, 2) about the $25 million Creation Museum set to open near Cincinnati, Ohio. Yesterday&#8217;s Cincinnati Enquirer has a long profile of founder Ken Ham. In the article, Jerry Falwell says that Ham is &#8220;the most informed creationist in America&#8221; and that the museum is &#8220;going to be a mini-Disney World.&#8221; From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}