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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.
You know, it didn't HAVE to take 5 seconds to queue the comments... it could very easily be scientifically explained how the comments came about in only .5 seconds... you're so narrow-minded.
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Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
This museum was built by godless atheists who want to profit from true believers!
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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.
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
I look at it this way:
It's generally frowned upon to brand idiots. However, if you can encourage them to brand themselves, then it makes it easy for the rest of us to avoid them. In this spirit, I'd encourage anyone who visits this museum to buy the t-shirt, and wear it proudly...
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Sorry. The evolutionists are wrong. The creationists are wrong too.
The world came into being when I woke up this morning. It'll end after I fall asleep tonight.
I'll create a new one while I sleep. Hell, I've been doing it for the past thirty-odd years. I'm getting pretty good at it.
I'm even creative enough that I've given it multiple back-stories.
Shit, I should write this up in a novel.
*Big*Fscking*Grin*
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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!
> The world came into being when I woke up this morning. It'll end after I fall asleep tonight. ...
:)
> I'll create a new one while I sleep. Hell, I've been doing it for the past thirty-odd years. I'm getting pretty good at it.
>
> Shit, I should write this up in a novel.
Why not just wake up tomorrow in a world where you've already written it?
>Not all religions promote falsehoods either.
>>Name one.
Scientology!
barack to the future?