The Creation Museum

[Speedwell]

the fact that observations "in nature" of over 50,000 generations still show that bacteria do not turn into horses over time?

That observation is not a "disproof" of evolution. In fact, if anything it tends to confirm it. There was nothing in the bacteria's environment that would select for evolutionary change. Given stable selection criteria, the species would be expected by the theory to remain unchanged. The bacteria were being cultured in a medium designed to be ideal for that particular species. Why should they then evolve into something for which that environment was less suitable?

 

[driewerf]

BobRyan said: ↑
the fact that observations "in nature" of over 50,000 generations still show that bacteria do not turn into horses over time?

That observation is not a "disproof" of evolution. In fact, if anything it tends to confirm it. There was nothing in the bacteria's environment that would select for evolutionary change. Given stable selection criteria, the species would be expected by the theory to remain unchanged. The bacteria were being cultured in a medium designed to be ideal for that particular species. Why should they then evolve into something for which that environment was less suitable?

BobRyan's claim was that the Creation Museum had scientific evidence for creation. So he has to deliver evidence for the creation. Arguments about why evolution is false need to be labelled as a fail.

 

[pitabread]

That observation is not a "disproof" of evolution. In fact, if anything it tends to confirm it. There was nothing in the bacteria's environment that would select for evolutionary change. Given stable selection criteria, the species would be expected by the theory to remain unchanged. The bacteria were being cultured in a medium designed to be ideal for that particular species. Why should they then evolve into something for which that environment was less suitable?

It's worth noting that bacteria in the long-running E.coli experiment *did* evolve and change. It's just that creationists refuse to accept such changes as an example of biological evolution and instead concoct strawman about bacteria turning into horses and what-not.

 

[TLK Valentine]

What do you like or dislike about the Creation Museum in Kentucky?

I like the fact that it's in Kentucky. I'd be upset if it were local.

 

[MIDutch]

I've never been to the creation museum in Kentucky, but (and I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before) I did go to one when I was quite young on on a trip to the Grand Canyon in Arizona:

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