A curiosity I noted over my cereal flakes this morning: Michael Spencer (the Internet Monk) linked this week to a year-old article by the New Yorker’s George Packer about the Creation Museum. In his summary of the article, Spencer says of the Creation Museum,
Friends who have been there tell me it is less a presentation of science than a presentation of Genesis. The point is evangelism more than education.
But this is exactly the opposite of the main claim Packer makes in his article:
It hardly matters that the Creation Museum is bound to appall secular visitors. They are not its audience. It exists to tell Christianist families that they are right and the future is theirs.
For Packer, the fundamentalist museum is “bound to appall” non-Christians. For Spencer, the museum is clearly meant to appeal to non-believers, and persuade them of the Truth.
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