No Horsing Around with Evolution for Fundie Knuckledragger

[marmar]

from the Lexington Herald-Leader:



While thousands flocked to the Kentucky Horse Park this weekend for the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, the park was getting less admiring attention from a different quarter.

One of the leaders of the Creation Museum in Petersburg — which supports a young-earth philosophy that decrees men lived alongside dinosaurs — has taken issue with a display at the International Museum of the Horse on the evolution of horses.

Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, wrote a blog post published Saturday titled "Kentucky Horses Will Lead You Astray," which challenges the validity of a permanent display.

Ham contends the idea of horse evolution is false, and he particularly disputes the line of prehistoric horses that scientists link to the modern horse. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/04/28/2168147/creation-museum-head-doubts-horse.html#storylink=cpy

[derby378]

1. The world is flat, too

When Satan was cast out of Paradise, he landed in the vicinity of Jerusalem with such force that his big fat ass carved a huge chunk out of the ground and forced all that rock onto the underside of the world, where it formed a mountain that we all know today as "Purgatory" that dwarfs Mt. Everest by a good bit. Meanwhile, Satan got trapped in an underground sea of ice that was originally a river of tears from some crybaby statue hidden in a mountain in Crete, and that's how Hell got started.

Everybody knows that!

[Archae]

2. Ken Ham is a perfect example of evolution.

Human into horse's ass.

[ingac70]

3. Falabella...

the result of an intentional cross breeding of a ponies with horses, then crossbreeding for the smallest ones. Fundie fail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falabella

[DCKit]

4. Cross-breeding to enforce different traits in different breeds of horses is fine...

but that's not evolution?

They believe in genetics, but they don't believe in evolution.

[TlalocW]

5. There was a flare-up like this in Tulsa when I lived there a few years ago

Some local creationist who has been working through hook and crook to get a creationist exhibit installed at the zoo next to one on evolution, claiming a Native American quote on a fountain and an image of Ganesha (as part of a larger exhibit of elephant images) gave him the right.

I forget what board was in charge of it, but they got enough conservatives on it to give him the go-ahead, which caused all the sane people in Tulsa to raise hell about it until they reversed their decision. I remember calling one of the board members and telling him that I practiced ancient Aztec-ism and would soon be demanding a right to put up a display showing how the gods sowed the ground with their blood which gave rise to corn that turned into man, and I would be suing if it wasn't allowed.

TlalocW