The Creation Museum

[Kitsa]

http://creationmuseum.org/

It's about an hour from me, just across the Kentucky border. I really want to go, I've been campaigning for it. I've seen glimpses of it in Religulous and I think one of those travel shows with the family with 18 kids, and I want to see if it's all it's hyped to be. I hear they have a stegosaurus with a saddle on it. And a petting zoo full of zebra crossbreeds.

They also say they have a non-evolutionary explanation for drug resistant bacteria. I'd like to see that.

Their wikipedia page says a "Cincinnati area family" donated $1M toward the $25M total for construction. I bet it was these people (http://www.solidrockchurch.org/). (The Big Butter Jesus people)

My family and significant other seem afraid to go on the grounds that religion is contagious.

Well, and the ticket prices are a little insane.

[darkvare]

the dinosaur den looks awesome

[Colonel Flagg]

These idiots must have LOVED "Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs". And they probably also think "The Flintstones" is a documentary.

:rolleyes

[Kitsa]

I feel sorry for the zebra that had to do a bunch of horses and donkeys just so some tourists could gawp at the stripes.

[Colonel Flagg]

I was recently reading a magazine (don't ask, I can't remember :() where a leading evolutionary biologist is campagning against calling evolution a theory, arguing it gives these wingnuts space to advance their "theories" of creation and intelligent design (please!). Evolution, she argues is a demonstratable scientific principle, and any "modifications" to it are in fact refinements on the principle, and not wholesale changes in a "theory".

Unfortunately, I believe she's beating a dead horse. Most evangelicals are morons who have to be hit over the head with a lead brick to be convinced that it hurts when you do that. :\

[Kitsa]

Normally I'm inclined to leave well enough alone. Lots of the avenues don't matter because we're here now and just have to get through it. If God gets you through it, great. If being a militant atheist gets you through it, great. Do your thing as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

So I'm ok enough with the creation museum existing, if that's what people who are so inclined want to do with their money and time. I have a science background myself and I'm not inclined, but it's always interesting to see what other people come up with.

I guess if I was a little meaner I could say it's like watching "Kids Say the Darnedest Things", but I hate to be that disrespectful about religion.

[Colonel Flagg]

I admit that its existence will not affect me in the slightest, nor most likely the future of mankind, but it sticks in my craw. Hearing the foolishness makes me extremely upset, as I have aspirations after retirement to go into science education. I guess I'll just have to learn to live with it. :(

[Evil Robot]

We all know life started when a meteor hit the previous empire of Mars and sent contaminated debris flying into Earth.

[DevilWearsPrada]

That wouldn't have started life, it would've transferred it to a different planet

[Fathom Zero]

I don't believe that biological material couldn't be warped in some way when travelling through space. Cause that's dumb.

[DevilWearsPrada]

I suppose the burning of oxygen or hydrogen would keep any extremeophile bacterial life deep in a crater or something in the meteor sustained, but that is a little too crazy to work

[RaNkeri]

I hear they have a stegosaurus with a saddle on it.

Seriously? :x

EDIT:

And with this do you mean

a) a stegosaur that kids can ride so parents can take pictures

b) The museum theorizing that people used dinosaurs as mounts?

[DevilWearsPrada]

probably the second answer, creationists are fucking retarded

[Kitsa]

I believe it was probably all of the above.

[DevilWearsPrada]

case in point,

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/everytales/jesus_dinosaur.jpg

[Colonel Flagg]

http://sorabji.com/2002/road_trip/south_dakota/custer/flintstones_intro.jpg

It's a place right out of history!

[Kitsa]

My bad, it's a triceratops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Creation_museum_triceratops_saddle.jpg

[Wiffle Bat]

I wanna go there so bad o.o

[Colonel Flagg]

Who could forget those early American pioneers, throwing all worldly goods in a covered wagon and heading west, hitched to their Diplodocus.\

PS - @Kitsa: love the goober going "Yeee Haw!" in the pic.

[Kitsa]

Well, there is that part in the Old Testament where Joseph's brothers dipped his coat in gryposaurus blood in order to fool Jacob.

EDIT:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/1999/11/05/dinosaurs-and-the-bible

"The story we have all heard from movies, television, newspapers, and most magazines and textbooks is that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. According to evolutionists, the dinosaurs “ruled the Earth” for 140 million years, dying out about 65 million years ago. However, scientists do not dig up anything labeled with those ages. They only uncover dead dinosaurs (i.e., their bones), and their bones do not have labels attached telling how old they are. The idea of millions of years of evolution is just the evolutionists’ story about the past. No scientist was there to see the dinosaurs live through this supposed dinosaur age. In fact, there is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old. No scientist observed dinosaurs die. Scientists only find the bones in the here and now, and because many of them are evolutionists, they try to fit the story of the dinosaurs into their view."

[Colonel Flagg]

Oh, well, that settles it then. :dunce

[captain516]

lol creationists
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/3810223752_89e543aef7_o.gif

[Colonel Flagg]

Aaaaah, I guess I can let them have their fun. They can waste their money building that shit, as long as my tax dollars don't support it.

[Kitsa]

apparently the Cincinnati Zoo tried to partner with them for a promotion and the public outcry was so great they dropped it after 2 days.

[Fathom Zero]

It's strange to me that they would even consider such a thing. I mean, Cincinnati even has superheroes.

[Kitsa]

There were tons more places that would make more sense. How about, oh, the Newport Aquarium (http://www.newportaquarium.com/)?

[Dimnos]

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/

[Colonel Flagg]

Now isn't that special!

[Dimnos]

Atheists just want to help out. There not bad guys.

[AnouskaMaeve]

hai friends,

The state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life, casting its characters and animals in dynamic form and placing them in familiar settings. Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden. Children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden’s Rivers. The serpent coils cunningly in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Majestic murals, great masterpieces brimming with pulsating colors and details, provide a backdrop for many of the settings.

[Tadao]

fag

[Pentegarn]

Here are some other fags


This bundle of burning sticks

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q1/Pentegarn/images3.jpg

These cigarettes

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q1/Pentegarn/images2-1.jpg

This FAG brand [tm] bearings

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q1/Pentegarn/images-13.jpg

[Tadao]

That bearing is so sweet looking that I'm questioning my sexuality :(

[Evil Robot]

EVIL ROBOT RULES

[Supafly345]

There are several good specials of richard dawkins going to these creation tours and museums, and whenever he talks to them they accuse him of being arrogant and tell him to be humble. I can't think of anyone more humble than a scientist, they admit to being wrong more than any other human being on the planet, thats how we know the stuff they say is absolutely right is in fact absolutely right. Which they say a lot less often than people think.

[Colonel Flagg]

This FAG brand [tm] bearings

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q1/Pentegarn/images-13.jpg

Not that I would know, but is that a cock ring?

[Pentegarn]

No it is bearings, for machines

[Tadao]

So yeah, a cock ring for a love machine.

[Pentegarn]

Man, imagine how uncomfortable that would be used as a cock ring

[Tadao]

especially if you have pubes

[Pentegarn]

Ouch!

[Babs]

That's a lot of brass fittings right there.