Elitist Liberals Visit The Creation Museum

[Are_grits_groceries]

I am not particularly unusual in wanting to be there when history is unfolding. Last month I was excited about playing a tiny, tiny role in Obama's victory over John McCain. A few weeks ago, I went to the Creation Museum with my wife, two friends, and 3 of the friends' kids: one a junior in high school, another a seventh grader, the other ten years old. A bunch of smirky liberal-types making a trip to mock the Creation Museum was definitely not an historic event, but it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, we can look on the existence of such an embarassing abomination in our nation as a 'high water mark' for the fundies' efforts to take over the show. Yeah, high water mark, Noah, ha ha.
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We didn't have to walk far before encountering the first of many animatronic exhibits. A girl with a sly smirk fed a squirrel a carrot while a dinosaur who was clearly a carnivore hung out nearby, and across from them an Apatosaurus munched on some greens and made roaring noises. Here's a picture of the happy milieu:

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Near this area we got schooled as to the many ways Adam's sins messed up life for everybody, causing everything from a switch from a strict vegetarian diet to Meat-Lovers Mania to the sudden transformation of once-harmless frogs to poisonous frogs:




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Next we saw an exhibit about a fundie paleontologist and his Asian heathen friend. The Asian heathen is a recurring theme of the Creationists - a book in the gift shop tells the story of a young Christian girl whose Asian friend develops leukemia - caused, of course, by, yes, Adam's sin. The point here, such as it is, is the two 'scientists', who we're expected to believe work alongside one another, draw different conclusions because they have 'different starting points'. The Asian guy uses the scientific method, and the creationist basically says all the fossilized animals died in the flood because that's what it says in the Bible. Why he bothers getting dirty when he already knows all the answers is a question this exhibit doesn't answer.

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Later, we see a vision of what happens when the world 'turns its back on God'. Apparently, it looks like the alley of a big city, only, as my wife pointed out, 'without the urine smell'. She jokingly suggested I could fix that, I did not. This city featured a preacher's idea of what graffiti looked like, and instead of flyers for bands, articles about Terry Schiavo and 'Gay Teens' were plastered on the walls. Apparently the theory of Evolution makes teens gay. At the end of this section, there's a bit showing pictures of Asian(?!) soldiers, a woman screaming, and audio of a Hitler speech, so Evolution is responsible for Hitler, too. Apparently the creationists aren't too up on Godwin's Law, and several signs like this suggest technology in general vexes them:


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There's more, but you get the gist. BTW, I looked up the poison dart frog business. They aren't poisonous in captivity. However, the explanation I read said it was due to the lack of a certain ant in their diet,
No mention of Adam's sins or whatever.
Sounds like a way fun field trip. NOT.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I could never, ever set foot in that place. What a travesty of "science"!!

[semillama]

That exhibit with the raptors and the girl

talk about total cognitive dissonance - Jurassic Park has made sure everyone knows what happens when you mix raptors and humans...

[badgerpup]

18. Did the exhibit happen to mention ...

how/where the girl acquired her pristine white dress?

:wtf:

Seriously, that looks like something a child would wear to her First Communion (recovering Catholic here)...not in a woodsy foresty All-Nature-Is-Kind-Before-The-Fall environment...:shrug:

[Donnachaidh]

2. Bill Maher interviewed the *curator* in Religulous

I give Bill props for courage.

The guy is extreme. I personally thought he didn't have far to go if he snapped and started "a killing spree for Christ".

[The Doctor.]

3. Been meaning to take the family there too.

I don't think I'll make much of a secret about how amusing it all is.

[LibDemAlways]

4. The Duggars visited with their brood recently for an

episode of their tv show. Several of the kids and the mom pontificated for the camera that the "museum" "proves" that the earth is around 6000 years old.

What was amusing was that the camera crew knows it's all bs and snuck in a quick interview with one of their own basically calling bullshit. I suppose the Duggar's contract doesn't give them absolute control over content, which is a good thing. Anyhow, the place is a hoot.

[YOY]

5. I hate that fucking show.

Putting them on a pedestal as some semblance of a "normal American family"...

[LibDemAlways]

8. I've watched a few episodes and find that some of the

editing is really sort of subversive. The family members are filmed in "talking head" asides saying inane things that go on the air unedited as though the production company is saying, "We know these people are freaks. Here's the proof."

It's much like Jon and Kate Plus 8. If you've ever watched that, it's apparent that the crew members don't especially like or approve of the parents, simply by how the show is edited and what's shown and said. Reading between the lines while watching those pseudo "reality" shows is what makes them palatable.

[YOY]

9. Jon and Kate Plus 8 are fundies too?

Did not know this. Never watched it.

[LibDemAlways]

10. They claim to be Assembly of God church members and

have been shown attending sevices, but they don't come across as fundie nutcases like the Duggars. The Jon and Kate show is supposed to be about how a couple cope with two sets of multiples. Instead it's morphed into a show about two greedy slackers exploiting their kids for fun and profit. And at least some in the production company don't seem to like it one bit based on the talking head bits they include which cast a very unfavorable light on the parents.

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Which channel carries the Duggars' televangelinfomercial? TLC?

I guess instead of TLC being short for The Learning Channel, it's short for The Lord's Channel?

There goes TLC's credibility.

[LibDemAlways]

17. Yup, TLC, which clogs the airwaves with

the likes of the Duggars, "17 (wackos) and counting." Maybe TLC stands for The Looney Channel.

[NeedleCast]

19. Vagina: Not a Clown Car

Someone should let the Duggars know

[Historic NY]

6. So Adam's sins gave us the Repukes & Neocons & *...thats what I get from it.

[gratuitous]

7. "Please sir, this IS a museum"

"If you insist on rolling on the floor whilst laughing, would you please confine yourself to the Heathens Damned to Hell Hall in the South Wing? The management thanks you."

[Kalyke]

11. And, yet, "God's senators" are promoting

Asian-owned companies over American-owned companies! Shelby, Sessions, Corker, et al, need to be reschooled. :sarcasm:

Do they really not get their own hypocrisy?

[niyad]

12. is that the museum that had to sell a mastadon's bone (anyway, some really huge being)

that was over 25,000 years old, in order to stay in business?

[yella_dawg]

13. I think my monitor's screwed up.

In the photo of the carefully accurate museum exhibit, the stone age girl appears to be wearing modern clothing, possibly even polyester. She also looks like someone who's been goosed from behind so frequently that she has acquired a permanently goofy expression.

Is she really staring at the dinosaur's anal vent?

Stupid garage sale monitor.

[Seldona]

14. "Here pretty raptor. That's a good boy."

:rofl:

I would have to go see it as well, though the constant laughing would probably get me tossed out or at least some weird looks.

[Hissyspit]

16. To quote Bugs Bunny (as I often do):

"Yipes!"

[sakabatou]

20. There's a pic somewhere

Of a T-Rex that reads "T-Rex ate plants? This guy? You're shitting me."

[Chulanowa]

21. Unbeliever!

How could that NOT look like the smile of an herbivore?