Book Review| September 01 2016 Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. By Lynda Walsh. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013; pp. xii + 264. $105.00 cloth; $36.95 paper. John Lynch John Lynch University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (3): 514–518. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.3.0514 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Lynch; Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2016; 19 (3): 514–518. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.3.0514 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

AbstractThe Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, offers a “spatial sermon” to convince visitors to reject the theory of evolution in favor of Young Earth Creationism, a literal reading of the biblical creation story. The museum combines strategies from the journalistic discussion of the debate with the form of a conversion narrative. The goal of this embodied conversion narrative is to convince visitors that the evidence for creationism and evolution is equivalent and insufficient for deciding the issue, and the only way to adjudicate the issue is to accept what the museum's creators believe to be the transparent wisdom of the Bible.