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The ‘Creation Museum’ Gets a Scientific Smack-Down

March 25, 2008 · 1 Comment

Right here. The only bit I have some discomfort with is this sentence:

Contemporary biblical scholarship has shown that the Hebrew Bible, at least (I’m less familiar with the New Testament), includes many historical elements, i.e., things that can be verified via outside sources such as covalent documents and archaeology.

Contemporary biblical scholarship has shown nothing of the kind unless by contemporary he means the 1950’s (during the heyday of the Albright, Wright, Bright school). If archaeological evidence and textual evidence show anything its that there’s precious little extra-biblical historical verification for events recorded in the Old Testament. But I’ll forgive him his mis-statement since he’s a science guy and biblical exegesis isn’t his thing. It’s still a right proper smack down of the Kentucky experiment in imagination.

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