Genesis Expo
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The Genesis Expo is a permanent exhibition and shop dedicated to the creationist belief that life on earth originated by design, not by Darwinian natural selection. It is located in the former National Provincial Bank in Portsmouth, UK. It is financed by the Creation Science Movement.
The exhibition itself consists of twelve dioramas containing artifacts such as fossils and model animals. The accompanying text centres on raising objections to aspects of the theory of evolution and promoting the role of a deliberate designer in creating life. There are also some large model dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs. As usual in these sorts of places, scientists are quoted deliberately and misleadingly out of context - Darwin's famous quote on the human eye (the absurd idea of the eye developing with his following explanation of how it actually does, excised) from 'On the Origin of Species', one of many well known and respected books on evolution conspicuously absent from the gift shop. The theory of evolution itself is falsely presented as a theory of random chance and all its arguments against evolution long since refuted. One example mocking the idea of abiogenesis out of the primordial 'soup' shows an actual soup can with a human hand emerging from the top. This straw man kind of attack on evolutionary theory only shows the juvenile level of scientific criticism the museum represents.
From the association with the Creation Science Movement, the implied designer in question may be the Judeo-Christian god, although this is not stated overtly anywhere in the exhibition.
[edit] External links
- http://www.csm.org.uk/index.php - Creation Science Movement
- http://bcseweb.org.uk/index.php/Main/CreationScienceMovement
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