"The Creationist Museum" in Kentucky With Exhibits On Dinosaurs In The Garden of Eden - Not Joking

[TomCADem]

Interesting museum to check out when you are in Senator Mitch McConnell's home state.

http://creationmuseum.org/

About the museum

Be prepared to experience history in a completely unprecedented way.

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.

The area within the museum has been divided into unusually configured spaces that allow for personal interaction with each of the 160 exhibits. Several parts of the museum, including the stunning forty-foot high portico with its cliff wall and floor-to-ceiling glass windows, flaunt open spaces and remarkable designs.

Walk through the Garden of Eden. See the scaffolding, smell the freshly-cut timbers in the busy work site of Noah’s Ark. Dig up dinosaur bones—or come face to face with T. Rex.

Edit: To add that this is not a joke post. This is an actual museum that was mentioned in a recent USA Today article.

[Goldstein1984]

1. Yes, we are as scientifically advanced nation

Or, we could be, as Richard Dawkins once said, "a nation full of scientific hillbillies and backwoodsmen."

[drdtroit]

2. Yaba daba doo! n/t

[MurrayDelph]

3. Roy Zimmerman frequently references them

when introducing his song "Creation Science 101"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwiPsgRrOs

[johnaries]

4. I prefer this one:

http://www.unicornmuseum.org/

Mission
Based on the idea of 'if it's in the Bible, it must be true', The Unicorn Museum promotes belief in the Biblical Truth of unicorns, a creature mentioned nine times in the KJV Bible.

This website has been published as an act of protest by the Brotherhood of Fantasy Creatures (MiddleEarth Div.157) in response to the injurious actions of the Creation Museum. The Creation Museum is a new $27 Million facility designed to teach the ‘truth’ of Creationism and the Christian Bible. We of the BFC feel that this group represents a threat to continued belief in other fantasy creatures/BFC signatory members and have constructed this website as a protest against their monopolistic and anti-competitive practices.

[Grey]

5. Dumb and Dumber....

nt

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. I can't step foot in Europe without getting crap about that place,

As though every living American has been on a pilgrimage there, although every journalist in Europe has.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. It's an embarassment

and should be treated as such.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

10. my typical answer is "I'm not a real American, I'm from California"

to which a french guy said in demolished english "ahh, california - no god but weed and pussy, right?"

[Warren DeMontague]

11. "no god but weed and pussy"

Is that supposed to be a bad thing? :shrug:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

13. he didn't think so,

Everywhere I go in the world, they love California and they love it for the same reason "real americans" hate it. We are a hedonistic wasteland and proud of it.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. They've updated their website.

I see Ken Ham hasn't lost his unintentionally ironic resemblance to Dr. Zaius, however.

[hayu_lol]

9. These are the folk for whom the sign, developed by...

P.T.Barnum, was painted...

"THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS."

[Raine]

12. I saw part of it when the Duggars toured there

on "18 Kids & Counting" ... they swear that the world is only 6000 years old. :eyes:

[and-justice-for-all]

14. It is an absurdity and intellectual murder...

Those people so desperately want their fantasy to be true and it simply is not so.

[TomCADem]

17. Just Goes To Show That We Can't Take Science For Granted

Evolution and climate change are just the tip of the iceberg. Given their druthers, we would have our very own right wing Christian Taliban trying to stamp out secular education.

[DefenseLawyer]

15. I can't agree with their theory that man lived with dinosaurs

Any rational person knows that there were no dinosaurs. The Devil planted those fake bones around just to fuck with us.

[david13]

16. I know about it from the book forum on this website. Stupidity raised

to the level of history. Two books. Idiot America, and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
Ain't nothing new.
dc

[SoCalDem]

18. Damn.. I should have sent them a christmas card