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A Field Trip To the Creation Museum
Lillith writes "The anti-evolution Creation Museum opened last weekend and Ars took a field trip there and took lots of pictures. 'There were posters explaining just how coal could be formed in a few weeks as opposed to over millions of years, and how rapidly the biblical flood would cover the earth, drowning all but a handful of living creatures. The flood plays a big part in the museum's attempt to explain away what we see as millions of years of natural processes. There was also an explanation as to why, with only one progenitor family, it wasn't considered incest for Adam and Eve's children to marry each other.' (Myself, I liked the picture of the velociraptor grazing peacefully next to Eve, who is wearing some kind of dirndl, in the Garden of Eden.)" The reporter posted more photos from the museum on Flickr.
Queue anti-religious /. comments...... NOW.
"Please, shut up. Just when I think you can't say anything more stupid, you speak again." -Archie Bunker.
Better be prepared!
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Seriously, i laughed more at this article than any April Fools or other jokes here on slashdot! Gotta thank the creationists for making it all possible!
actually, when they ate from the tree, they realized they were naked. maybe they dressed before and didn't realize it either.
maybe eating only grass is not good for mental health.
~~~ Paf. Le chien.
This museum was built by godless atheists who want to profit from true believers!
Badass Resumes
And for some reason they forget the woman before Eve: Lilith :) *runs for his life*)
(which explain the behavior of most women on earth
I couldn't tell from their pics; did their Adam model have a belly button?
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Doesn't sound like it was very intelligently designed
buh-da-chingWell, back to rejecting software patent applications.
Oh, the museum isn't all that inaccurate. For example, the exhibit showing the RIAA offering an apple to Eve is certainly correct. And the Stone-Age diorama showing Jack Thompson and Darl McBride hitting each other over the head with clubs was not only historically accurate, but desirable as well.
jesus christ! what an abomination.
Yeah, but at least they thought of the children. God forbid they saw a model of a naked woman!
I read in an illustrated book how this big guy with an S on his shirt turned coal into a diamond by holding the coal and merely pressing his hands together. That took seconds. So maybe coal could be made in weeks. I think too in a similar book, there was this guy who lived with dinosaurs on a hidden island. So maybe man did, or does live with dinosaurs. I mean, I saw these things in print. they must be true.
How cool would it be if the Flat Earth Society opened a similar, though less expensive, attraction right next door. Even if somebody just put up a sign for it, it would be so poignant.
On the other side of their building, we could have a "global warming" museum..... Oh, crap. This is slashdot. I am about to get modded down into oblivion.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
> Faith is a poison upon mankind.
;)
And all this time we've been looking for the WMDs
Bark less. Wag more.
(IANAL)
That's what I say. I am naked even as I type this message.
Some people I've seen naked did commit an act of violence against my eyes.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Because God thinks it's bad.
I don't think so, actually. What got them kicked out of the Garden was that they'd eaten the forbidden fruit. God was quite happy for them to prance around naked before that.
== Jez ==
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Well, Europe *does* have the Vatican ...
I see your XKCD, and raise you one more!
We don't have an exclusive hold on stupidity... just witness /. an international community
'nuff said
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
God was quite happy for them to prance around naked before that.
Yeah! What a pervert!
1) build museum
2) charge entry
3)
4) PROFIT!
Amen to that!!
God: Don't eat from this tree.
Adam: Why not?
God: It will give you knowledge of Good and Evil.
Adam: What's evil?
God: Eating from the tree.
Adam: I don't understand.
God: Eat from the tree and you will.
Adam: Ok... wait... start over.
This is how the debate between sound science and "intelligent design" looks from the sidelines. Note here that we replace the theory that life was created by an intelligent designer {who logically must have been created by a more intelligent designer, and so forth, since any mechanism which would account for the spontaneous generation of an intelligent designer must be capable of spontaneously generating life} with the theory that all roses are red. This has little bearing on the quality of the debate.
IDist: All woses are wed.
Scientist: No they aren't. Look. Produces white rose A white rose.
IDist: That is obviouthly not a wose. All woses are wed. That flower is white. Therefore it cannot be a wose.
Scientist: It is a rose. A white rose. Performs some unspecified test which demonstrates that the white flower indeed belongs to the genus Rosa.
IDist: Well, OK then, I acthept that it may be a wose, but you still haven't dithpwoved my theowy. Even you must surely have to admit that it is sort of a bit wed-ish. No, it's not a white rose -- it's just a vewy pale wed wose. You still haven't dithpwoved my theowy. All woses are wed!
Scientist: Now you're just talking bollocks.
IDist: Waaaah! You used a naughty word! Well, that just pwoves it, doesn't it? All woses are wed. I win! Come on, mummy, buy me an ithe cweam!
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
Yep, only in USA. I live in London and there aren't any stupid people here at all.
Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex.
These two verses aren't related if you look at it from an infinite perspective. I'm a Christian and I wouldn't say our sun is the source of all light, would you? I do find it amazing the sun is always on time, day or night, much like something a watchmaker would make :-)
I am so ashamed and embarrassed by this whole display that I am considering atheism.
Your friend, God
Stay tuned for an alternative fuels credit rewarding faith-based producers of instant coal per biblical prescription.
Hey, it makes as much sense as some of the "faith-based" social programs...
also has a porn website. You might be able to see Eve naked there.
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I want to go to the Creation Museum just to read the graffiti that will inevitably show up on the men's room walls.
"Flush twice, it's a long way to the curator's office," etc.
Perhaps the Bible would be a far more interesting read if the velociraptors had been grazing peacefully on Eve.
Why do plants always get a bad wrap. Creationists (and certain militant vegetarians) seem to think it's perfectly acceptable to kill and eat plants, but it's not OK to kill animals. Well guess what people, plants happen to be ALIVE TOO. Not just that, but if you believe that God created all species on the planet, he made the plants too! Wouldn't the plants too be God's creatures, and wouldn't it be a sin to eat them?
You think life would be so damn peaceful if the whole planet were vegetarians? Man, the farting alone would double the damn greenhouse gases we're all so damn worried about....
Andy