Author and blogger John Scalzi has posted an amusing report of his visit to the Creation Museum.
Some time ago he said that he’d visit the museum, which was built near his home, on the condition that his readers donated $250, with the added incentive that any extra money would be given to Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. His readers came through and donated over $5000.
So he went, took a bunch of pictures, and posted a very thorough report.
An excerpt:
Here’s how to understand the Creation Museum:
Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we’re not talking just your average load of horseshit; no, we’re talking colossal load of horsehit. An epic load of horseshit. The kind of load of horseshit that has accreted over decades and has developed its own sort of ecosystem, from the flyblown chunks at the perimeter, down into the heated and decomposing center, generating explosive levels of methane as bacteria feast merrily on vintage, liquified crap. This is a Herculean load of horseshit, friends, the likes of which has not been seen since the days of Augeas.
You can read his entire report here.
Anyhow, Captain, I am glad you are not mad at us…but let me tell you…good acting skills…
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Good luck on the play!
PacificPam (Butterfly) Nov 22nd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
What the fuck do you mean you were pissing with us????????
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read my post of 32 minutes ago!
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Captain Codpiece returns Nov 22nd, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I was not pissing with you.
I just got here…
Sadly it didn’t have enough of the desired effect. Any time we mentionned one of the bits of evidence his “science” book hadn’t already explained away, his response was ‘I’m just a kid, I don’t know about that, it isn’t fair, you’ve all studied this’. For some reason he never made the connection that that was sort of the point, and made it look like we were all deliberately picking on the religious kid. Last time I heard, he’d gone no to bible college
oops - gone on, not no.
Let’s leave it at that! This thread is so totally excellent to get too cluttered with personal shit as well as the horse shit museum of complete and utter ignorance! If you haven’t already taken the photo tour on the blog then I highly recomnd it. It took me 15 minutes of belly laughing to get through it!
CC
Pity, some kids might have been encouraged to try and learn something about the arguements you were using against him, I know I would, even though I was very religious when I was younger, never the frothing at the mouth, ‘if it’s not in the bible it’s a lie’ kind though, maybe that’s the difference.
I’m taking it at the moment, CC. Doing it the slow way though as that way I get to enjoy the captions and the comments posted by other people who also see how silly it is.
@Jenny
I can understand how kids can’t change their view point even in the face of overwhelming evidence. And the reason is explained in The God Deception. Evolution has made kids take at face value things that grown ups tell them. They do not question authority until later. 13 is just on the brink of this change so he might have felt the same feeling a schizophrenic feels when you show him the inside of the match box which he had claimed contained maybe a thought transmiter. It’s ironic that this line or reasoning as partial proof of evolution should make someone so convinced that there is no such thing!
I took the tour and was completely shocked from what I saw…talking abuout how the dinosaurs dissappeared on the flood but they were also taken in the ark because they were small as sheeps…
That museum should be burnt! I feel insulted by the way they try to explain everything with their stupid bible!
Unfortunately true, and because he was home schooled, getting no contradicting information from other grown-ups such as teachers, and I seem to recall most of the socialising he did was within the church group his parents were members of, he wasn’t being prompted to question that authority by learning in his day-to-day expeience that there were other views.
So, Jennyanydots, did he cry?
not unless he did it afterwards when he thought about all the stuff we’d said and decided that maybe we had a point after all. But given he decided to go to a fundamentalists training college at 18 I somehow doubt it was that life-changing
…Dammit…should have made him cry…
Well…maybe on some other time…
But I didn’t want to make him cry. That would have been even more of a failure than not managing to make him think was.
Can’t we storm an existing theme park, take the staff prisoner and hoist up a jolly FSM flag? That would be very pirate like! If we picked the Creation Museum then two birds with one stone! Then we can fuck with all the existing exhibits, to pariey them selves. If they don’t all ready.
There’s still time, unfortunately he’s unlikely to meet anyone who’ll give him an alternate view of the world while learning to be a bible thumper, but at least he isn’t too old to learn to ask questions yet, although it’d probably take something pretty major to do that.
Well, Jennyanydots, I think it would have been a succes because maybe he would have cried out of anger at his parents for teaching him all the lies and then he would have gone to some kickass college and study astrophysics!
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Ha!
@Pluto - There is nothing interesting in Kentucky…don’t put the theme park there. Better in Australia…close to the kangaroos and the walabis…they are so cute.