Moishe ‘n’ me
The Creation Museum in Kentucky is really a marvelous testament to what money can buy. A temple of Mammon, if you will. Designers and craftspeople work for money, not ideology, and the money here paid for some good ones. It reminded me a lot of Las Vegas that way.
You won’t learn much about the Bible here, since creationists really pick and choose. From an Old Testament perspective the whole place is outrageously idolatrous, violating the Second Commandment: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth…” —Exodus 20:4-6 (KJV)
Finally, the Creation Museum is a magnificent monument to the limits of human psychology. Here it’s especially easy to see the extraordinary lengths humans go to to make some kind of PALATABLE sense of the world. I vastly prefer science to biblical authority, but even the best method of inquiry gets mashed through our squishy, emotional, fallible, fragile human minds. It’s easy to make fun of creationists, but we all have similar longings to understand the world, and there’s only so much cognitive discomfort we can handle before we just project on reality as we see fit.
Big ol’ bible dinosaur at the entrance
The Bible is authoritative, without error, and inspired by God. UNLIKE YOUR SILLY “SCIENCE” NONSENSE!
Human skeletons read the bible, unlike ape skeletons.
BEST BOOK EVAR!!!
Who you gonna listen to? Man? Or GOD???
Another bible dinosaur.
This certainly looks science-y.
Science is arbitrary, unlike the BIBLE.
And the little children (tweens) (mannekins) shall lead me.
Kickin’ it old skool.
Sin is very “urban.”
“The lord cheated?” Font failure.
The Chemistry section. Chemistry is one science creationists have no problem with.
Heretic in the garden of eden.
The garden of eden was home to penguins…
…and of course dinosaurs.
Adam and Eve overlooked by a dinosaur in the garden of eden.
God’s curse was NOT meant to be! Even though it was issued by God. God does some things that aren’t meant to be I guess.
Deanna pets the raptor.
By this time we were all suffering from Cosmic Pain.
Cosmic butthurt.
I don’t mind the incest rationalization as much as I mind the assertion that biblical marriage is “one man for one woman.” That’s contradicted all over the bible, even the old testament, even genesis. If you’re going to claim the bible is your authority, then heed the damn bible.
Ark diorama.
Cute lil’ dinos on the ark
The more you read this, the less sense it makes.
Fake Assyria was cool! Very Las Vegas. Pay craftspeople and designers and they’ll make anything for anyone.
Admiring the fake shedu. Nice paint job, too. This room was my favorite.
Homeschool materials for sale!
Like the rest of the Creation Museum, this quilt was good looking and well made. That the content is batshit makes you appreciate the craftsmanship all the more.
Whatever.
Heretic group photo.
Here we are cleansing the taste of the Creation Museum from our mouths with Etheopian food in Indianapolis. Afterwards, some of us made the obligatory trip to Trader Joe’s before heading back to Champaign-Urbana. A day well spent!
