From: slinke@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Steven Linke)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
Subject: I visited the ICR in person (4 of 4)
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:40:33 GMT
Followup-To: sci.skeptic

EXHIBIT #9: ORIGIN OF RELIGION
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The origins of various religions in Europe, Asia, Africa, the
Americas, Greece, etc. were described with a creationist slant,
including:
 
Evolutionary Pantheism
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"Evolutionism--that is, the denial of a transcendent personal God
as Creator of all things--can be traced back to ancient Sumeria,
which probably means to Nimrod...This system of pantheism ("all-
god") became equivalent to polytheism ("many gods"), involving
astrology, spiritism, and idolatry.  Atheistic evolution soon
followed, and dominates much of American academia today..."
 
EXHIBIT #10: FAMOUS CREATIONISTS AND EVOLUTIONISTS
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This final exhibit was a hallway consisting of many pictures of
famous people who, at some point in their lives, supposedly made
comments about evolution and/or Christianity.  For example, some
of the famous scientists and philosophers in the creationist hall
of fame are: Boyle, Newton, Pascal, DesCartes, Linnaeus, Faraday,
Babbage, Morse, Rawlinson, Pasteur, Kelvin, Maxwell, and (not a
person but) the Declaration of Independence.
 
Evolutionists in the hall of shame included: Hitler, Lenin,
Stalin, Freud, and these (with museum quotes):
 
William Sumner: "His Darwinist views contradicted many basic
American ideals."
 
John Rockefeller: "A ruthless developer of one of America's
largest oil empires, Rockefeller was a staunch theistic
evolutionist."
 
Andrew Carnegie: "Carnegie is honored today for philanthropies
and devotion to culture, but he was cruel and heartless in his
own day to competitors and laborers alike.  Regarding evolution
he said: `I remember that light came in as a flood and all was
clear.  Not only had I got rid of theology and the supernatural
but I had found the truth of evolution.'"
 
Friedrich Nietzche: "He was strongly influenced by Darwin's
theory, especially its racist implications."
 
Karl Marx: "...he wanted to dedicate his book DAS KAPITAL to
Charles Darwin, who had given him what he thought was the
scientific foundation for Communism."
 
At this point, one of the museum patrons commented on the picture
of Karl Marx, "Evolutionism is practically synonymous with
Communism."  To which his wife responded, "This museum is a good
place to send school children to get good information."
 
Alfred Wallace: "According to his own testimony, he was given the
whole theory of natural selection in two hours of a malarial
`fit' in the jungle--the same theory, in detail, that Darwin had
been trying to develop for 20 years in the world's chief center
of scientific learning."
 
There were also the names of about ten other scientists from whom
Darwin purportedly "stole" his theory of evolution.
 
Near the end of the hall of pictures were two plaques titled:
  Nazism and Communism--Fruits of Evolution
    and
  Racism--The Fruit of Evolution
 
The hall included a picture of an astronaut (I forget his name)
who proclaims his faith in God and Creation.  One woman walking
by commented, "He's a creationist, and he's a rocket scientist.
He's a good guy.  Why do they put him in with the bad guys?"
[referring to the pictures of Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Marx, etc.]
Another guy remarked, "Most of the astronauts that I've heard of
believe in God when they come back down."  To which his friend
replied, "It would be hard not to."  Suddenly, another person
said, "Ooooh, that evolutionist looks like Woody Allen!"
 
The final exhibit in the creationism vs. evolution hallway is
pictures of two trees (a Creationist Tree and an Evolutionary
Tree).  The Creationist tree has "long roots" and "good fruits."
The Evolutionary tree has "short roots" and "evil fruits."
 
Branches of the Creationist Tree
--------------------------------
Genuine Christianity:    Correct Practice:
  True Christology         True Science
  True Evangelism          True History
  True Missions            True Government
  True Fellowship          True Americanism
  True Gospel              True Family Life
  True Faith               True Education
  True Morality
  True Hope
 
Branches of the Evolutionary Tree
---------------------------------
Harmful Philosophies:     Evil Practices:
  Communism                 Abortion
  Nazism                    Promiscuity
  Imperialism               Pornography
  Monopolism                Genocide
  Humanism                  Euthanasia
  Atheism                   Infanticide
  Amoralism                 Chauvinism
  Scientism                 Bestiality
  Racism                    Homosexuality
  Pantheism                 Drug Culture
  Behaviorism               Child Abuse
  Materialism               Slavery
 
The museum exhibits end with these words:
 
"To those who are not yet believing Christians or whose faith has
been weakened by attacks of skeptics, ICR personnel would be
happy to assist you in settling these vital and eternal issues.
Just ask..."

-- 
Steve Linke
Salk Institute (Gene Expression Lab)
La Jolla, CA
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