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Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction

Posted by kdawson on from the going-the-way-of-the-dinosaurs dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Evolution is a theory too by stokessd · · Score: 1, Troll

    All the substantiation behind it maybe? The fact that it doesn't break laws of thermodynamics etc.

    If an all-powerful god can create all of life and everything, how do you explain cancer and the other flavors of suffering god's creatures are facing? If he's involved in the day to day, he's pretty nasty, our best hope is that he's an absentee landlord.

    Sheldon

  2. Re:Evolution is a theory too by Entropius · · Score: 0, Troll

    Think about it.

    I have. Have you, or do you let your pastor think for you?

    "Theory" is just a term for "scientific idea that has some measure of acceptance and support." The theory of evolution has a huge amount of support, and is tested every day.

  3. Gotta love science by styryx · · Score: 0, Troll

    This XKCD followed by this one.

    Creationsists: The universe doesn't care what you think.*


    *Please follow that statement by imagining me pointing and laughing, derisively, at you; for at least several hours (e.g. hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...and so on).