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A Night at the Museum…for Idiots

June 18, 2007

Normally I wouldn’t even give an organization any further attention then it doesn’t need but seeing how no one is going to read this anyway, what the hell, right? What am I talking about you ask? Well this little slice of home-schooled, medieval, fundamentalist nonsense: http://www.creationmuseum.org/
Creationism, mmm, always brings a smile to my face…

Who the hell is giving these self-proclaimed pundits money to put on their little carnivals? Hellhouse, Jesus Camp, Bibleland, shouldn’t the human race be progressively looking toward the future? A future that doesn’t have us throwing our shit and praying to the sky to solve our problems?

Do people really still look up to Mikey Seaver for guidance in their lives? Look, I enjoyed Growing Pains as much as the next guy…when I was 12, the episode about the cocaine party was HI-larious. But when you start using your gross ignorance on the subject of evolution as a basis to point out potential flaws with the theory…you’re just showing off how desperate your religion’s position really is. For those that haven’t seen it:
Crocoduck
(btw, I want to marry the redhead in this movie, so if by chance you’re reading this red, look no further)

Oh where was I, oh yeah, Middle America. And we all know what that leads to, here’s the mathmatical proof: IGNORANCE + FAITH = IRAQ WAR 2

But I digress, the simple fact that the only major opposition to the theory of evolution is coming from fundamentalist religious groups, mainly the Christian fundys (calm down weekend warriors, I’m not dissing your bake sale), because it’s demonstrating how yet another thing in the Bible is not true.

This is my favorite little snippet from their website, the page that doubles as both a visitor guestbook and news page (approx length: two 8 1/2x 11 double-spaced pages). Apprently amongst reviews from prominent local practitioners and initialized effusive nobodys, the museum actually got some press. But the reporter saw the cause for what it was, and I quote:

“A journalist who is very high up at a major newspaper in Cincinnati (AiG’s “backyard”) told an attorney (who took careful notes; he also told us the phone call was not “off the record”) that in his view:

‘[The people who operate the AiG museum] are no different than the skinheads and people who deny that the Holocaust happened.’ He later repeated the comment. The attorney, after taking careful notes, then cancelled his subscription to the paper, especially noting that, in many instances over the years, the paper’s coverage was critical of the museum project.’

AiG finds it heavily ironic that the museum has a prominent anti-racism exhibit in its Tower of Babel section.”

That’s great they’ve got an attorney listening in on their interviews to make sure they get a fair and balanced (oop O’Reilly!) review of their fantasy diorama. And a prominent anti-racism exhibit! Wow! Guess that makes up for centuries of church funded genocide (Crusades), persecution (Inquisition), and supression of free thought and science (Copernicus, Newton, Gallello, mmmDarwin?).

But I guess I have to be fair, I mean if you ignore the fossil record, near phylogenetic sequence similarity, comparative anatomy (Pentadactyl limbs, insect limbs, aquatic tails, wings, eyes, etc.), radiometric dating, and examples of evolution like the Hyracotherium to the modern day horse and modern evidence like the sympatric speciation of the Hawthorn fly, you really have a strong case for intelligent design. See Flying Spaghetti Monster