~~~There's a new show in town -- well, somewhere in Kentucky anyway -- having its grand opening Memorial Day. And as I type this I'm having a problem keeping my lunch "down" in my gut where it's supposed to be. I am a member of DefCon and it looks like I'm going to be making myself nutso again with a new assault on sanity! But then, the expected hordes of people who will visit this $27 million dollar temple dedicated to stupidity and completely untrue/false ideas will Oooooo and Aaaaaa, then the novelty of this "museum" will undoubtedly fade away.......

But I guess people like me, who totally believes in science, reality and proven facts---will just have to "grin and bear it" and hope there will be a big enough backlash from the *smart* crowds to sit up and take notice of a very large group of religious fanatics who call themselves "Christians".

This planet called Earth is just another planet that dances around the sun, and has been doing so for billions of years. And I guess the bible, [Christian?] according to the nutsos who want, more than anything, to make the U.S.A. a Theocracy supposedly tells the absolute truth---the earth is 6,000 years old and dinosaurs, like, OK, they existed, but lived in the same time period as people. Now someone like me would consider that a joke, but no-one is spending $27 million dollars on a "museum" to showcase a fairy tale from a book written before humanity as we know it today got started, actually.

I copied a few comments from the DefCon blogpage last night, which I think I may just slap on my Mousetrap home page to continue this, MY own personal rant --- (and passing out a few brief paragraphs of quotes from the DefCon site......)

"The awesome dinosaur is a star attraction for drawing wide-eyed children and their families. It's surprising, though, to be welcomed at the gate of the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky by two stegosauruses. After all, this brand-new museum is designed to disprove evolution, including the millions of years that science says dinosaurs walked the earth.

For Bible-defending "creationists," God created Earth and all its creatures between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. But they know a drawing card when they see one, and this museum has more than its share of animatronic (moving, teeth-baring, roaring) specimens. In fact, dinosaurs play a big role in this "biblical history": They live not 65 million years ago, but with humans -- in the Garden of Eden and on Noah's Ark!! "

~~~~The interesting comments made by sharp people on DefCon's page must be read to appreciate just how enormously MORONIC people can be to believe there was such a thing as "Noah's Ark" and 40 days of rain, blah blah blah. Please, please, skip over to the next page and read what people with brains that work have said. And I only copied a few of the remarks!

"Dinosaurs are one of the icons of evolution, but we believe they lived at the same time as people," says Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis (AiG), the fundamentalist Christian ministry that built the facility. "The Bible talks about dragons. We believe dragon legends had a basis in truth."

The $27 million museum set on 50 acres opens on Memorial Day, and AiG hopes for 250,000 visitors a year. Mr. Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis (AiG), the fundamentalist Christian ministry that built the facility, is direct about the museum's purpose: to restore the Bible to its "rightful authority" in society.

[My kinda skeptical query]-----Why should that particular book, which is called a "bible" by Christians (and isn't there a variety of what could be called "bibles" for other religions and beliefs around the world?) be "restored to its rightful authority in society" ---according to WHO?--- the nitwit who started the museum? Puh-leeze! What makes Mr. Ham the Holy Roller Ruler of the Planet?

For many scientists, however, it's distressing. Some 700 scientists at educational institutions in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana have signed a statement deploring the "scientifically inaccurate" exhibits and warning that students who accept them are "unlikely to succeed in science courses."

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