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I agree with you about pigeonholing people based on their faith, and I do often see anti-religionists making bigoted, illogical statements.
Of course, anything in science is subject to question. When I say that what that museum is teaching is scientifically questionable, what I mean is that it's not based on any available evidence, unless you count the Bible as scientific evidence.
I guess you're right, their website seeks only to get you in there. It doesn't really tell the story about what they're teaching.
The Wikipedia page tells more about it. The museum and its founders are promoting the idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old. As Tina Fey once put it on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, "They think Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to Sunday School." Dinosaurs are depicted alongside human beings in the many realistic displays. One display actually has a triceratops with a saddle on it.
Evolution is simply not accepted in any form. These people believe that God created every living thing directly, and all the diversity of life is His doing.
en.wikipedia.org
Personally, I think the well-funded efforts of the Discovery Institute, Answers In Genesis, and other such institutions, are not a major threat to science, since they seem to lose every time they try to get Intelligent Design injected into school curricula. But it is a threat of a kind, and through private "educational" programs, they continue to spread ignorance and a distrust of science among a large segment of our population.
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