The Creation Museum has just announced that, in response to the so-called "falsehoods" perpetuated by Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, they would like "equal time" on the hit show currently airing on Fox.

The Wire is reporting that Answers in Genesis, the religious organization behind the Creation Museum, is stating that the reboot of the classic Carl Sagan show that's executive produced by renowned atheist/social commentator Seth MacFarlane (so we can expect a rant from Brian the dog about this on an upcoming episode of Family Guy, if the comedy gods are just) needs to have their religious view shared on a show that's all about SCIENCE. They feel that Cosmos is perpetuating lies and falsehoods without the inclusion of said religious views, and they feel they have the right to be "fairly represented" on the show.

deGrasse Tyson, for his part, has made it clear that there is "no chance" that the Creationists will have any type of air time on the show. (And it should be noted that The Wire, despite scientific evidence to the contrary, still believes that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.)

From a more sensible standpoint, The Huffington Post offers that the reason this is all going on is because Bill Nye (The Science Guy) invited a well-known creationist, Ken Ham (who, incidentally, is the founder of the Creation Museum) to debate the issue of evolution versus creationism.

This has given the platform for creationism to get some credibility. And this is a scary proposition.

Creationism is the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, such as in a literal reading of Genesis, rather than by natural processes such as evolution. As science developed during the 18th century and forward, various views aimed at reconciling the Abrahamic and Genesis creation narratives with science developed in Western societies. Those holding that species had been created separately (such as Philip Gosse in 1857) were generally called "advocates of creation" but were also called "creationists", as in private correspondence between Charles Darwin and his friends. As the creation-evolution controversy developed over time, the term "anti-evolutionists" became common.

In 1929 in the United States, the term "creationism" first became associated with Christian fundamentalists, specifically with their rejection of human evolution and belief in a young Earth-although this usage was contested by other groups, such as old Earth creationists and evolutionary creationists, who hold different concepts of creation.