3. My guess is, that they will be trying to reach the young impressionable minds. Since "evolution" is the doctrine taught in schools that's impressing those same minds, maybe this will bring a balance and give them something to think about.
... 5. If the evidence for "evolution" is so strong, then it can speak for itself without worry about the pillar of science crumbling.
Suppose I built an anti-relativist museum. I start with some obscure philosophical reason to say that Christianity is opposed to relativity, but the real feature of the museum would be that I would include plenty of anti-relativist exhibits.
For example, I might make a booth where kids can make videos of various objects being thrown across a room. Relativity predicts that as these objects are thrown, they should contract in the direction of their motion - and yet, kids, the baseball stays round all the way through! Or I could make a small replica of the twin paradox: have a slide which kids can slide down, and tell them that relativity predicts that the kid who slid down the slide is now a little older than his/her friend who stood at the base of the stairs all this while - and yet Charlie here hasn't had a birthday in the chute, has he?
And when anybody asks, I'll just say that I'm trying to give them a balanced perspective on science. Since children will be taught in schools that relativity is right, maybe this will give them a balance and give them something to think about.
Wouldn't people all over protest? Think about it for a moment and you'll realize why arguments about "balance" don't make sense in science pedagogy.
4. Since it was funded by donated funds, why should anybody else worry about what it was spent on?
Creationists should be concerned that AiG didn't get bang for its buck. I wonder if auditors have put up any estimates of the financial income the museum will bring, or the amount of upkeep it will take. For the cost of buying land and building a big boring fixed building, they could probably have outfitted a fleet of "Creation Science Trucks" which would function as mobile museum displays, or fund real research that would actually convince the scientists.
Shouldn't creationists be concerned that AiG is missing out on a huge opportunity? Convince the scientists that creationism is right and they will do all your publicity for you. "Darwin Wrong After All!" would be on the headlines in all the newspapers and they wouldn't have to pay a cent in advertising.
6. Why are some so worried about people convincing others that Biblical Creation is true? Why are they even worried about it? Are creationists an embarrassment to TE'st and are they worried about the association due to a common belief in God?
Biblical Creation is the belief that God created the heavens and the earth. That is not what the museum is promoting, which is creationism. Creation
ism is the belief that the Bible can only be true and authoritative if the creationist set of scientific theories about the Earth and life are true. And any museum which teaches kids "if scientific theory A is true, then the Bible is as well" will also teach them that "if scientific theory A is false, then the Bible is as well". And they will be answerable for that.
