About a year and a half ago, The Ogre™ and I went to the American Museum of Natural History. We had a great time just wandering the museum's floors, experiencing the exhibits and chatting. But the real highlight of the trip was when we got to (discretely) follow around a Creationist and his son for a half an hour. We followed them through the exhibits on early man and snickered to each other behind our hands as the father turned to the son and said "These men couldn't have been farming in 10,000 B.C. because the world didn't exist then. God created the world when?" We had to turn our backs as the son answered "In 4,000 B.C." What a blast.
As The Ogre™ said at the time it's not that there's anything necessarily wrong with believing in Creationism or teaching it to your children if that's your thing, but then why bother to go to a museum and look at exhibits about early history? It seems somewhat silly, to set yourself up for aggrivation like that.
Well soon Creationists won't have to. You see, they're getting a museum of their very own in the middle of Kentucky. What will be in this museum? Well, aside from exhibits on bible stories of greater or lesser reknown (including movies "not embellished with unrealistic subplots"), we'll see "dinosaurs cavorting with children." You know, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. "The T. rex will play a prominent role in dispelling the myth that there was an �age of the dinosaurs.� As we know from God�s Word, dinosaurs, along with the other land-dwelling creatures, were created on Day 6, so they lived right alongside birds, reptiles, mammals�even humans. The Creation Museum will show how the science of paleontology, when used with the correct biblical starting points, confirms the history recorded in the Bible concerning dinosaurs." What history is that, you ask? Well "we know from the Bible that God created all animals, including dinosaurs, to be vegetarians" so "there would have been no reason to fear a 40� long, 12� tall T-Rex!"
This could keep me laughing for hours. What a wonderful vacation it'd be. Who's with me?
Comments (8)
All we need is a child to bring with us and point out how WRONG everything is...maybe I could come equipped with carbon dating reports and lots of scientific data...
Posted by Studying-Ogre | January 4, 2005 10:48 AM
Posted on January 4, 2005 10:48
I'm very down with this. I wonder at what level they would throw us out?
Posted by Erik | January 4, 2005 12:54 PM
Posted on January 4, 2005 12:54
Probably at the point when someone loudly said "damn, Eve was kinda hot!"
And yes, Ogre's right, we would most certainly have to shanghai a child of some sort into this. Brian'll have one of those soon...
Posted by Jason | January 4, 2005 4:04 PM
Posted on January 4, 2005 16:04
Never been to Kentucky. Can't wait to go.
Posted by Marc | January 4, 2005 9:43 PM
Posted on January 4, 2005 21:43
Ok...I do have a child now and loving every minute of it. Although the least favorite one was the poopy diaper change. But I digress... I just read this posting to Sheira and thought bringing Maddie to this would be quite the educational experience.
Posted by Brian - still in China | January 5, 2005 3:39 AM
Posted on January 5, 2005 03:39
Hmmm. Y'know, I heard a few years ago about a group in Israel finding sixteen saddles with Hebrew markings saying that they were part of the 29th Tyrannosaurus Cavalry of King Solomon.
I mean, c'mon. Solomon's palace wasn't built by djinn, since "djinn" is just a mistranslation of "dinosaur".
It also proves that there's an evil conspiracy of paleontologists, possibly gay Satanic Jewish pagan paleontologists, trying to cover up the truth...because anyone that believes that dinosaurs existed millions of years ago is damned for hell!
God I love fundamentalists. Without them my days would be filled with far fewer laughs, and far less sarcastic rants.
Posted by Bard | January 5, 2005 10:48 AM
Posted on January 5, 2005 10:48
I think the thing that gets me most about Creationists, or other fundamentalists, is the sheer lack of imagination. I mean, I'm all for faith; great stuff, that, if you can get it. But why can they not concieve that God is incapable of speaking in metaphor? How is it ruinous to concieve that God might not be a really big bearded guy in a robe? In what way is it terrible to imagine that the dawn of humanity looked a little more complex than an episode of Land of the Lost crossed with an episode of Lambchop?
Ah, forget it. Clearly I'm just a godless heathen who's doomed to an eternity in hell.
Posted by Jason | January 5, 2005 4:55 PM
Posted on January 5, 2005 16:55
I have three kids I'd be willing to loan out to those wishing to have one with them at the museum. But you must, must, must, please god, point out how very, very wrong it all is.
I already have a mini-fundamentalist (thanks Zach) on my hands. I don't need two more! ;o)
Posted by Meg | January 6, 2005 5:28 AM
Posted on January 6, 2005 05:28