TagsTagsRemember the film “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” in which Pee Wee Herman visited a California roadside attraction that featured giant concrete dinosaurs? Well, that roadside attraction on Highway 10 near Cabazon, formerly known as “Claude Bell’s Dinosaurs,” has now been bought out by fanatics who’ve turned it into a creationist museum. Long ...
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Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society interviews Answers in Genesis’s star young earth creationist Georgia Purdom (who has a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Ohio State University), at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY on February 18, 2009. Apparently this video may not be on Google video for much longer, so ...
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The French love stories like this. It gives them an excuse to look down their Gallic noses at Americans, and in this case, they’re infuriatingly right: Creationism going strong on Darwin anniversary. [Video] Forget about dinosaurs, the origins of life, and the birth of the universe. According to Ken Ham, the ...
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Irony alert: on the page for the New York Times Art and Leisure Week “Special Cultural Offerings” promotion, choose “Kentucky” (KY) and “Museum” from the dropdown menus and click Submit, and you’ll discover that last weekend the Times was pushing a package deal that included a visit to Ken Ham’s ...
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The Cincinnati Zoo inexplicably decided to enter into a promotional deal with the ludicrous anti-scientific Answers in Genesis “Creation Museum” last week, but that didn’t last long after science bloggers found out: Creation ‘Museum’ rebuffed by Cincinnati Zoo. “A promotional deal between the Cincinnati Zoo and the Creation Museum was ...
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Here’s a highly entertaining account of a trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky, by Daniel Phelps, president of the Kentucky Paleontological Society: The Anti-Museum. Well, it would be highly entertaining if it weren’t so very sad. The Dragon Theater features a short video on dinosaurs that absurdly argues they were ...
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It’s our favorite libertarian-ish anti-idiotarian magicians, with a whole episode of Bullsh*t! devoted to ... yes ... creationism and its repackaged descendant, “intelligent design.” (Screams and pandemonium ensue.) Featuring footage from the Creation Museum, and interviews with some people whose names are often invoked during the LGF Evolution Wars, including Duane ...
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Before we get to the real point of this post, here’s some background information on the Creation Museum in Kentucky: The Creation Museum is a 60,000 square foot museum in the United States designed to promote young Earth creationism. The museum presents an account of the origins of the universe, ...
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