{"id":40068,"date":"2017-06-01T06:06:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=40068"},"modified":"2017-05-30T05:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:14:25","slug":"creation-museum-vs-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/06\/creation-museum-vs-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"The Creation &#8220;Museum&#8221; vs. the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/03\/img_0492.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40067\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/03\/img_0492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"481\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Stanhope drew the above photo of a display\u00a0at the Creation Museum to my attention. It is truly illustrative of the character of young-earth creationism. They claim to be all about the Bible, and yet they\u00a0can\u2019t be bothered to get the Biblical text correct in a display like this one, and don\u2019t know enough about the Bible \u2013 and the language that\u00a0not only Exodus\u00a0and Deuteronomy but\u00a0<em>Genesis<\/em> was written in \u2013 to get it right. How many errors can you spot?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stanhope drew the above photo of a display\u00a0at the Creation Museum to my attention. It is truly illustrative of the character of young-earth creationism. 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