Say What???

Listening to the AM news as I had my morning coffee, I almost spilled the hot java in my lap. CNN was reporting that there is a themepark in northern Kentucky that is "Creationist". The report stated that the park is built around the belief that the earth, and the universe, were created 6000 years ago, and that there were dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden.

I had heard creationists posit that dinosaurs never existed. The proponents of this theory alleged that scientists made plaster casts of the mythical dinosaurs in an attempt to debunk creation and the existence of God.

The new creationist theory is that dinosaurs lived peacefully with Adam and Eve until the pair committed original sin. The dinosaurs' extinction is based on the idea that they were too large to fit on Noah's ark, hence they all died in the deluge.

Science and religion will never advance to their full potentials until they cease being mutually exclusive. The big bang can be viewed as an act of creation by a power unimaginable to modern man. The delicate sophistication and beauty of the double helix of DNA could very well be evidence of a "God".

Theologians know well that the Bible in its present form was the creation of very fallible men. The idea that our Bible is the unadulterated word of God is patently ridiculous. When the first Christian Roman Emperor asked for a sacred text, it had to be produced under a severe deadline. A myriad of texts, gospels, epistles etc. could have been included. To assert that the "editors" were divinely inspired is naive. The "editors" were more inspired by what might happen to them if the requested text was not produced in a timely fashion.

I have not decided if I will visit the Creationist Park in Kentucky. It might be fun to experience the "Cain feeds Abel to the dinosaurs" ride. Maybe I'll wait until the religious right has the Ten Commandments carved into the walls of the Grand Canyon- which is one of the most spectacular monuments left behind by Noah's Flood.