Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer

Aloriel writes to point out a story in the Guardian (UK) about the opening next year of the first Creationism museum in Kentucky, just over the Ohio border. From the article: "The Creation Museum — motto: 'Prepare to Believe!' — will be the first institution in the world whose contents, with the exception of a few turtles swimming in an artificial pond, are entirely fake. It is dedicated to the proposition that the account of the creation of the world in the Book of Genesis is completely correct... The museum is costing $25 million and all but $3 million has already been raised from private donations." A lot of that money is going into the animatronic dinosaurs, which are pictured as coexisting with modern humans before the Fall. According to the article, up to 50 million Americans believe this. The museum has a Web presence in the Answersingenesis.org site.

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Little Red Riding Hood

[BadAnalogyGuy]

When I think of people like this, I immediately get the mental picture of Little Red Riding Hood being pulled out of the bloddy belly of the wolf. It's amazing that she made it down the gullet of the wolf without much injury, but always more fascinating how the woodsman's axe was able to kill the wolf without also injuring Red Riding Hood.

Just more proof

[benhocking]

What a revelation! See how I did that? I just set aside the key features of beer (it's brown, it gets you drunk, etc) and all of a sudden everything is just like beer! Wow!

I'd describe "Apple sauce, coca-cola and honey" as all being brown (at least for some versions of apple sauce and honey and/or perhaps somewhat liberal meanings of the word brown), and fermented apple sauce and honey (mead) can definitely get you drunk (perhaps Coke ferments, too?), so I think you're just strenghening the arguments that they are, in fact, beer.

Peraps "containing hops" might be more of a key feature, but I'm no beerologist. (Whatever you do, do NOT put that word into google search and click on I'm feeling lucky. Hey, I warned you... OK, seriously, if you DO, then at least turn off the volume of your computer first or do it in the safety of your own home.)

Re:Karl Marx was right. (sigh)

[Moofie]

I'm not a Christian because of religion. I'm a Christian because I believe that "love thy neighbor" is a pretty good way to live your life. What's twisted about that? Is that a belief unique to Christianity? Certainly not. Jesus is the teacher I happen to follow, but that doesn't diminish or de-value the teachings of anybody else.

Dawkins' aggressive sort of atheism seems to me to be evangelism in a different coat. My spirituality has nothing to do with him, so what's his beef with me?

Do you seriously believe that if everybody magically became Dawkinsite atheists tomorrow, that there would be no strife? If you do believe that, I think you're way more deluded than the craziest snake-handling evangelical bible-thumper.