I took the kids to OMSI yesterday. They enjoyed all the science hands-on activities, but we had a bad experience with the planetarium. We went in to view a show called "Cosmic Collisions" which was described as a demonstration of space collisions. Sounds good, right? Wrong.
For us it was a "Cosmic Collision" of worldviews. We were informed that billions of years ago the earth in its molten form collided with an asteroid that sent debris swirling into orbit around the earth and, amazingly, in only one month's time, the moon was formed.
(Putting aside the complete rejection of God as creator, how ridiculous is it to speak in terms of events billions of years ago and then to say with absolute authority, an event (formation of the moon) took 30 days.)
We also learned that the dinosaurs which roamed the earth for millions of years were destroyed by an asteroid whose impact threw the earth into chaos, but, fortunately for us, set up just the right environment for mankind to evolve.
We learned that should the earth in in the near future be threatened by an asteroid, it could definitely be diverted by sending up a space craft to fly by it to slightly alter the gravitational pull and change its path.
Also, in the future (billions of years again) the Milky Way will definitely collide with another galaxy, but we are not to worry. It will not effect the planets in our solar system.
I cannot believe any self-respecting scientist would defend these as "facts" but yet they are spewed to school children daily. The word theory was not even used that I recall. I heard a family leaving the planetarium saying "Wow, that was really neat." Ar!
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