We visited the Creation “Museum” last Friday.
I’m careful to put the title in quotes, because it is not a museum in any respectable sense of the word. I knew this ahead of time; I had no expectation of any kind of credible presentation in this place, but what impressed me most is how far it failed to meet even my low hopes. They clearly want to ape a real museum, but they can’t — their mission is the antithesis of open inquiry.
Honestly, I’m not sure how I feel about these visits. People go here to mock the ‘museum’, even though it’s obviously mocking itself at times. Are people seriously so fucked in the head that they don’t know that the “Creation Museum” is synonymous with “Hoax Museum”?
@Tiki: I’m afraid that yes, they are so fucked up that they don’t understand that the “Creation Museum” is a hoax museum.
I didn’t know there was such a thing as a ‘Creation Museum’ or that it was a hoax.
Wiki doesn’t mention it as a hoax and while wiki is not the end all and be all of knowledge; I would’ve thought that this would have added.
oh, it’s really “real” it’s just that the “museum” is just a collection of bullshit religious hoaxes all strung together to try to misdirect people into believing into this made up religion.
Ah. So the people who built it believe it, more or less? It’s they who’ve been duped by hoaxes, or at least ignoring the hoax part of it?
You all know about the Creationist Museum in Petersberg, Kentucky, right?
Read and weep:
creationmuseum.org/
…then read this and laugh your ass off:
whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/12/your-creation-museum-report/
that’s the same place that they went to in the OP.