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Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction
gattaca writes "A small Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction. The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder. 'If it sells, well, then we can come another day,' Joe Taylor said. 'This is very important to our continuing.'" Meanwhile, the much larger Creation Museum in Kentucky that we discussed and toured when it opened last year seems to be thriving.
... no one buy it!
Two states where I'm pretty sure you could find arguments against evolution just by looking at the local populace. I guess if they don't believe in evolution they don't feel the need to do so themselves.
today is spelling optional day.
...either smite them with bankruptcy or send a saviour to the auction, their accountant has been weighing their sins and thinks a press release might help. /ducks
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Holy dog shit! Only steers and creationists come from Texas...
.... and this guy doesnt look like a steer to me!
So biology professors have a higher genetic fitness than Christian fundamentalists? :-P
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The funny part about the original CNN article I read on this said that Heritage Auction Galleries estimated the age of the thing to be at around 40,000 years old. At least the musuem guy is letting smarter people sell the thing.
How can they sell this skull as a 40,000 year old artifact if they claim it's less than 6000 years old?
FYI, here's what I just read:
Thank you for your insightful contribution, which I rather suspect stands ready to be cut and pasted into any discussion featuring the words "science", "religion" or "bat shit insane cultists who view everything in relation to their paranoid schizophrenia about a huge beardy man who will torture them for ever unless they flatter him".
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
You mean the cleaners and janitors? Most likely, but is there anyone influential there who believes that a big beardy man buried dinosaur skeletons to fuck with our minds?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
c) purchase the skull and put it on a pike outside the front door as a warning to others.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
'If it sells, well, then we can come another day,' Come again?
I think that means his wife is cutting him off until he gets that damned thing out of the house.
Keep religion out of school, and we'll keep reality out of church.
I mean that silly skull can't be older than 6,000 years, obviously not worth much. ;)
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This is getting worse than Mac vs PC.
One interesting thing about the Atlas of Creation is that it uses photos of fishing lures as examples of life to compare to fossils to show a lack of evolution.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/well_fly_fishing_is_a_science.php
Fishing lures.
Yeah, this is something I can believe in...
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that's too bad. survival of the fittest i guess.
wait, that sounds familiar
Well, at least their prospects for selling it look rosy. I'm sure a member of the large "creationist fossil hunters with lots of money to burn" community will come to bail them out.
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I just read Slashdot for the articles.
I see your Theism and Atheism and raise you Agnostic ....
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The Europeans have obviously evolved beyond that sort of behaviour
Or you ran out of witches.
someone should nominate them for Darwin's award.
Well, if they don't sell it, and the museum become extinct...you can just say that it was evolution in action!
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