The Creation Museum

[demobabe]

This is real.

Here's just one slide:
http://web.mit.edu/gjordan/www/creation/slides/_DSC2393.html

You can find fun facts like how dinosaurs and horses fit on Noah's Ark (everything was smaller back then, uh huh). You can even see a Raptor accompanying Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden!

Start here:
http://web.mit.edu/gjordan/www/creation/index.html

[Bolo Boffin]

1. That is just beautimous.

Thanks for this link! This is a great curl-up-with-a-cup-of-coffee Sunday evening laughathon.

[peacebird]

2. I don't know whether to laugh or cry..... Have you read Al Gore's new book yet?

The Assault on Reason?

[demobabe]

15. I haven't read it, but I'd say this sure is an Assault on Reason

It's interesting tho, there are a lot of contradictions built into the displays, as if the designer did it intentionally to make fun of all this.

[Rick Myers]

3. Here's a hilarious 'tour' of the place by an athiest...

http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=121

Be sure to check out the Flickr picture set with extra snarky comments!!!

[demobabe]

16. That's great!

$27 million to build that museum... and $20 per ticket to view that crap!

Amazing.

"The Museum is casually trying to establish an equivalence between science and creationism by accrediting them both as legitimate “starting points” for any discussion of biology, geology and cosmology. This would cause any scientist worth his or her salt to have a positively cinematic spit take, because it’s horseshit, but if you don’t know any better (say, if you’ve been fed a line of crap your whole life along the lines of “science is just another religion”) it sounds perfectly reasonable. And so if you buy that, then the next room, filled with large posters that offer on equal footing the creationist and scientific takes on the creation of the universe and evolution, seems perfectly reasonable, too: Heck, we can both have our theories! They’re both okay."

[derby378]

4. Amateurs

Google "Carl Baugh" or "Creation Evidences Museum" and you'll get the real deal, located down in Glen Rose, TX. This man is just plain scary.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. Easy there...you're getting a little too close to my faith-based worldview.

[demobabe]

19. I love this!

Do you have t-shirts with Raptor Jesus?

[KittyWampus]

6. It's almost whimsical.

[drm604]

7. Some impressive displays.

It's tragic to see talent and effort go into spreading such nonsense.

[Rick Myers]

9. The main designer came from Universal Theme Parks... n/t

[Bitwit1234]

8. The year is 2007

would any sensible, sane and intelligent person believe any of the stuff the religious right is trying to feed us.

America is supposed to be the most enlightened nation in the world. It was pretty good, til bush stole office seven years ago. And since then it has steadily gone down hill.

Is this by design. To dumb this country down, so they will accept the crooked, corrupt and greedy bunch who occupy us.

[elfin]

10. Huckabee would -- eom

[mwb970]

12. I don't think of America as "enlightened", I must admit.

As a group, we seem to have been overly religious all along. When I hear "enlightened" I'm more likely to think of Europe.

[zonmoy]

18. problem is that people have believed this shit for years.

I was raised by people who believed it and are trying still to get me to believe all these lies and of course all the lies of god and the right wing government.

[Kurovski]

11. People who believe George Bush is a great president,

or even believe that he's a legitimate president, will believe anything.

[opihimoimoi]

13. The Fundies have VALUES??? Them Dinos were on the ARK?? Gimme a break>>> LIARS

[radiclib]

14. It's beyond horrific

It's like some warped MAD magazine parody...but it's all too real. America is becoming a nation of morons and the laughingstock of the world. Maybe George Carlin is right... :popcorn: Just kick back and enjoy the ride.

[frogmarch]

17. Incredible

Yet even my husband's family believes that stuff.

[SharkSquid]

20. Yawn

Let em have it, Its no more crazy than some of the tin foil stuff you see on the interenet.

Let the crazy's stew in their own juices.

[demobabe]

21. Well, the problem is...

...these people are very vocal, and they like to legislate morality. Seen it action - it isn't fun to watch a judge come down with a ruling based on "feeling," admitting they have no facts to base their ruling on. You can't just ignore these people.

[SharkSquid]

22. Legistlation can be stopped

let them have their website...

[demobabe]

23. Good luck there

I'm talking about JUDGES interpreting law in addition to new laws, and they already interpret the current law in Unconsitutional ways.

AND, if there are enough of these freaks pressing their congresspeople, they can create legislation - good luck stopping it all.

Nobody isn't saying to get rid of any websites...

[hayu_lol]

24. Dinos on the ark?

Lessee now, two T-Rexes would have eaten everything aline in 40 days and 40 nights.

Science has definitive proof in DNA, what has the 'other' side got for proof?