The Creationist museum to open today

[Mr Bean]

THE CREATION MUSEUM, a $27-million tourist attraction promoting earth science theories that were popular when Columbus set sail, opens near Cincinnati on Memorial Day. So before the first visitor risks succumbing to the museum's animatronic balderdash — dinosaurs and humans actually coexisted! the Grand Canyon was carved by the great flood described in Genesis! — we'd like to clear up a few things: "The Flintstones" is a cartoon, not a documentary. Fred and Wilma? Those woolly mammoth vacuum cleaners? All make-believe.

La Times Story Link

This Memorial Day marks the opening of a new Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. I haven't visited it yet, but according to reports, its exhibits are highly engaging, even if their cumulative effect can be disorienting. Walk into this museum and you'll come upon a diorama of humans frolicking alongside dinosaurs, a video arguing that the Grand Canyon was carved out of the landscape in just a few days and fossils presented as the remainders of Noah's flood. Not one of these depictions is accurate, according to modern science.

Frisco Story Link

The creationist museum is actually close enough for me to vist in person, and I'm highly tempted to do so except for three good reasons.

One, it's over a two hour drive, at current gas prices in my car that's roughly 14$ worth of gas right there. Second it's 19.99$ for adult admission add in me buying something from the gift shop(Maybe ) and your talking about spending roughly 50$ on a museum trip, while I can see your typical air and space museum, or natural history museum for roughly 10$ counting a five dollar donation and a handy bus route. Since all normal museums are close to one company's bus route or another.

Still I plan on heading out there with my digital camera in the next week or so, putting aside the museum itself anyone want picy's of anything in particular?

Gotta get a picture of that display of humans and dino's playing togther.

Damn is so sad they spent 27-million dollars on this affront to reason and logic.

[Singular Intellect]

Yes, bring us pictures for sure.

[Jericho Kross]

It is bad when they butcher science but even worse when they make you pay more than the other fucking museums.

And yes give us some pics

[Yogi]

Personally, I'd rather thus 27 million be spent on a creationism museum than furthering political ventures.

[Laughing Mechanicus]

Pictures and descriptions of the various parts of the museum. Looks laughable compared to any real museum.

[Jack Bauer]

Religion and science can coexist. That the Earth is billions of years old is a fact. How the universe came into being and whether it operates by design are matters of faith.

Apparently even the "liberal" media isn't immune to psuedo-scientific strawman logic bullshit.

[Darth Wong]

Religion and science can coexist. That the Earth is billions of years old is a fact. How the universe came into being and whether it operates by design are matters of faith.

Apparently even the "liberal" media isn't immune to psuedo-scientific strawman logic bullshit.

The two sides of the political spectrum each have their own distinct pseudo-reasoning for religious apologist bullshit.

On the left, the problem is the Culture of Acceptance gone awry. They have the attitude that everyone has a valid point of view, and that it's "close-minded" to flatly deny anyone's beliefs, no matter how stupid they are. In other words, liberals believe that it's wrong to call anything "stupid", even if it is.

On the right, the problem is good old-fashioned Christian Supremacism. They have the attitude that Christianity is simply superior. Some of them think that way because they are rabid fundies, while others think that way because they have been raised to believe that the triumph of western europe was due to Christianity and not due to an accident of geography as Jared Diamond would argue.

The sad thing is that both attitudes lead to the same result: that science cannot be trusted when it leads to dismissal of religious belief.

[Darth Wong]

I wonder how popular this IdiotFest Museum is going to be.

[wolveraptor]

Man, if there were some way to get in without paying them. Even giving these bastards 20 bucks is repulsive to me. But I need to mock it. Man, I'm torn.

[Boyish-Tigerlilly]

There is one way to get in without paying them. In fact, you can get them to pay you to be there: work there. Go undercover and explore the wonder that is creationism.

I mean, you would have the insider scoop. What better way to scam the system?

[Spyder]

Working there would probably help produce more then $20 for them.

[Ritterin Sophia]

I heard they had Dinos with saddles, I'd like pics of that...

[DPDarkPrimus]

No, don't give them your money. (Audio of quoted text.)

The Creation Museum opens Monday in Petersburg, Ky. Its displays are predicated on a belief in creationism. Commentator and physicist Lawrence Krauss says don't go. You shouldn't pay to see bad science.

TEXT OF COMMENTARY

KAI RYSSDAL: The Creation Museum opens on Memorial Day in Petersburg, Ky. It might resemble other natural history museums you've seen, but there's a significant difference. Financed by private donations, the displays are predicated on a belief in creationism. Admission's about 20 bucks for adults, 15 for seniors, 10 for kids. But commentator and physicist Lawrence Krauss says it doesn't make sense to pay to see bad science.

LAWRENCE KRAUSS: How much money and glitz does it take to institutionalize a scientific lie? In the case of the Creation Museum, about $27 million worth.

The reason for this museum is quite simple: The historical record in Genesis must literally be true. Since this is incompatible with essentially all of modern scientific knowledge, therefore modern scientific knowledge must be incorrect.

But if you want to renounce modern science as flawed, then an intellectually honest approach would be to also renounce technologies such as airplanes, cars and even radios that work using precisely the same scientific principles that tell us the earth is well over 6,000 years old.

But that's not the approach the Creation Museum takes. It renounces knowledge, but has spent lavishly on creating the illusion of science.

So, they've created a museum that appears scientific, but that simply lies about the science instead.

The Creation Museum uses dazzling and expensive animatronic displays made possible by hard-won advances in science to suggest the viability of a literal interpretation of Genesis.

That includes a six-day creation of the Earth, a 6,000-year-old universe, and a world where dinosaurs and humans happily roamed together. All of these are inconsistent with everything science tells us about the natural world.

Alas, such scientific fraud is not subject to legal intervention unless there is a financially injured party.

But what of the intellectual injury to thousands of young children who might visit the museum — built to be within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population — and who come out confused about science, the very thing that can give them a competitive edge in the modern world.

Religion doesn't have to be bad science. And, similarly, bad science shouldn't be defended simply because it might have a religious basis.

While religious tolerance is important, there should be little tolerance for promoting or consuming such religiously motivated scientific fraud.

RYSSDAL: Lawrence Krauss is a professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University.

[K. A. Pital]

http://studentweb.eku.edu/zachary_lynn/ ... am_eve.jpg
HA-HA-HA!

[DPDarkPrimus]

http://studentweb.eku.edu/zachary_lynn/ ... am_eve.jpg
HA-HA-HA!

Well, we can't have people looking at their NAUGHTY PARTS, can we?

[PeZook]

http://studentweb.eku.edu/zachary_lynn/ ... am_eve.jpg
HA-HA-HA!

Well, we can't have people looking at their NAUGHTY PARTS, can we?

Heh, this reminds me of those children's "Illustrated Bible" books, where the "naughty parts" were always covered by something in the pictures. Because we all know - sex is bad, Adam and Eve did not evah have sex, and the Bible does not contain explicit adult content.

You know, if I was chilling out in the Garden Of Eden, with plenty of food, permanently nice weather and a hot chick at my side, I don't think I could get rid of an erection Besides, what else did they have to do there? Look at each other lovingly all day?

[Nephtys]

http://studentweb.eku.edu/zachary_lynn/ ... am_eve.jpg
HA-HA-HA!

Well, we can't have people looking at their NAUGHTY PARTS, can we?

This just goes to show you can't trust snakes. Poor Adam and Eve, ruining God's Garden of Eden, and their blissful natures as cyborgs.

[Civil War Man]

Someone at YTMND got the right idea when they took the cyborg Adam and Eve picture and played the Terminator 2 theme with it.

[Lonestar]

RYSSDAL: Lawrence Krauss is a professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University.

The "Physics of Star Trek" guy?


Cool.

[Feil]

Holy shit, it's actually accurate!

[K. A. Pital]

I have a new slogan:
Feel the bigotry!

Bible Authority Room
The Bible is true. No doubt about it! Paul explains God’s authoritative Word, and everyone who rejects His history—including six-day creation and Noah’s Flood—is ‘willfully’ ignorant.

This and other gems here:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/walkthrough/

[CJvR]

Pictures and descriptions of the various parts of the museum. Looks laughable compared to any real museum.

Showed it to a friend, he thought it was satire...

[Patrick Degan]

Just to save any of you the trip to Petersburg and the cost of admission and gas, herewith the Creation Museum presented to you in its essence:

[Ritterin Sophia]

I thought Dino was smaller than that...

[Shroom Man 777]

They fed him steroids.