Northwest Science Museum
| Error creating thumbnail: File missing | |
| Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 197: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | |
| Established | June 14, 2014 |
|---|---|
| Location | 1835 Wildwood St., Boise, Idaho, US |
| Coordinates | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| Type | Creationist museum |
| Founder | Douglas J. Bennett, Brent Carter, Rick Deighton, Stan G. Lutz[1] |
| Director | Douglas J. Bennett |
| Website | northwestsciencemuseum |
Northwest Science Museum is a creationist museum in Idaho. It opened on June 14, 2014.[2][3] The museum's directors plan to create a 350,000 square foot facility including a full-scale model of Noah's Ark near Boise, Idaho, replacing the museum's current "Vision Center" near the state capitol in Boise.[4] The museum's founders say that their collection of Ica stones offer proof that humans and dinosaurs coexisted,[5] that out-of-place artifacts constitute "damaging evidences [sic] against evolution",[6] and they can show with other evidence the Earth is 6,000 years old and it was physically possible for Noah to bring dinosaurs on board the Ark.[3][7]
Inspiration
[edit | edit source]Fundraising documents published by the founders cite the Creation Museum in Kentucky as establishing the viability of a similar concern in Idaho.[8]
Collection
[edit | edit source]The museum's collection includes petrified wood, fossil dinosaur eggs, the Ica stones mentioned above and a replica of the "Lone Star" mastodon skull.[9] They present the fossils as having been formed about 4,500 years ago in the Biblical Flood.[9]
Criticism
[edit | edit source]Almost three years before the museum opened, Hemant Mehta said "this place is going to be ripe for mockery...misnamed twice over — it's not science and it's hardly a museum".[10] The Raw Story called Northwest Science Museum's Ica stones "fraudulent" and "a favorite artifact of many conspiracy theorists".[11] London's The Independent newspaper filed the museum's opening under "weird news".[2] A Salon.com editorial called it "beyond frustrating [n]ot just because of the pseudo-science dribbling out, but the fact that young children are being fed nonsense under the guise of 'true science'".[7] Salon also found "much to take issue with — right down to the organization’s misleading use of the terms 'science' and 'museum.'"[7]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
- Stan Lutz gives tour of museum on YouTube (November 22, 2014)