There were some inaccuracies in the Sept. 30 article (“Beyond Belief”) on the visit by atheists to our Creation Museum: Our date for the Earth’s age was given at 4,300 years old; my name was wrongly printed as “Ken”; and a “stir” was created at the museum, it was stated, by an atheist’s T-shirt when the real problem was the way he was verbally disrupting our other visitors’ experience. Most of all, we want to challenge a Minnesota science professor’s comment against our northern Kentucky museum: “If you talk to a real paleontologist, they’ll be able to explain to you why they think (a fossil) is 100 million years old …”
In reality, two professional paleontologists vetted the content in the museum’s exhibits that related to fossils, biology and the age of the Earth. One of them received his Ph.D. in paleontology from Harvard, under the tutelage of perhaps the world’s most-respected evolutionist of the day, Stephen J. Gould. This real scientist spent hundreds of hours as a consultant to the museum, and he rejects Darwinian evolution and a very old Earth. (By the way, we have two full-time biologists on staff who reject evolution as well, including Dr. David Menton, who also received a Ph.D. from an Ivy League school, Brown University.)
People can disagree all they want with our worldview, but they should at least get their facts right.
— Mark, Looy, CCO and co-founder Creation Museum, Petersburg, Ky.
Hooray for Health Care
I am a senior who just qualified for Medicare. Prior to now I was paying almost $1,000 per month for individual insurance. What a relief it was, financially and emotionally, to have Medicare.
I want this same sense of relief for all Americans. Let’s call on our representatives to support the public option so there can be reasonable health care reform for all.
— Barbara Schwam, Finneytown
Right now insurance companies are allowed to discriminate based on a preexisting condition or cancel your coverage when you get sick. They can charge you exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses and cap the amount of coverage you can receive in a year or over a lifetime.
Heath insurance reform will put an end to those unscrupulous practices. It’ll make sure that no one in America goes broke when they get sick. I support President Obama’s plan to reform our health system and hope Congress will act to pass reform this year.
— Mary L. Patton, Finneytown
