Far-Left DefCon America has launched a campaign against a northern Kentucky museum dedicated to a biblical presentation of science and world history. The Creation Museum, a project of Answers in Genesis, will open its 76,000-square-foot facility May 28.
DefCon is telling people the project would "undermine" science and "confuse" children. On its Web site, DefCon is described as "an online grassroots movement combating the growing power of the religious right" and fighting for "the separation of church and state … while respecting people of faith and their right to express their beliefs."
According to Ken Ham, president and co-founder of Answers in Genesis (AiG), DefCon is demanding tolerance of all beliefs, but will not tolerate anyone who believes the Bible.
"What is incredible about all this is that this group called DefCon is supposed to be defending the Constitution," he told CitizenLink. "They say that you can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion – but you're not allowed to say that science supports the Bible."
"Our campaign is focused on exposing AiG’s attempt to institutionalize a lie," Clark Stevens, co-director of DefCon, told CitizenLink. "Our opposition to the museum has nothing to do with religion – it’s about bad science.
"We want Ken Ham as well as the rest of America to know that (we) are opposed to his war on science education, and we call on him to stop promoting this falsehood at the expense of our children."
Ham said it's preposterous to claim the museum has no basis in science.
"We are opening up a major facility to tell the world that the Bible is true and we use good research in biology, geology, astronomy, anthropology and so on – to help people understand you can trust God's word. And they don't like it," he said.
DefCon is calling on educators to "oppose this nefarious campaign to institutionalize a lie" by signing an online petition, an apparent attempt to add names to its list of supporters.
"What's our lie?" Ham asked. "We're saying the Bible's true."
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Learn more about the Creation Museum, with its walk through biblical history, life-sized dinosaur animatronics, special-effects theater and planetarium.
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