Creationism Museum

Well the big 27 million dollar creationism museum is getting ready to open its doors to the public and the press is getting a sneak peek and heres a reaction that might just offend a few people, but those who are offended by the truth get very little sympathy in my book. So here's the LA Times opinion column entitled "Yabba-dabba science" Oh its worth the read. Here's the opening lines.

THE CREATION MUSEUM, a $27-million tourist attraction promoting earth science theories that were popular when Columbus set sail, opens near Cincinnati on Memorial Day. So before the first visitor risks succumbing to the museum's animatronic balderdash — dinosaurs and humans actually coexisted! the Grand Canyon was carved by the great flood described in Genesis! — we'd like to clear up a few things: "The Flintstones" is a cartoon, not a documentary. Fred and Wilma? Those woolly mammoth vacuum cleaners? All make-believe.

Science is under assault, and that calls for bold truths. Here's another: The Earth is round.

Their is no point in holding back against groups like these, and I like the persons route, don't argue with them, that gives them credibility, simply laugh in their faces. Richard Dawkins had a line I can't recall right now about a creationist wanting to debate him, it went roughly like this, "I'm sure that would look great on your resume, but for mine, not so much." We could debate but when evidence can simply be dismissed then what is the point in debating, just laugh at them.

Heres a couple other takes on this new museum.

The Problem with Evolution is no Problem This article points out that there was a great deal of skeptisim and debate for about fifty years after The Origin of the Species, but for the last 100 or at the very minimum for the last fifty years its been refined and honed but there's not much point questioning it's basic presumptions. They have been established. So now the opposition gets to say that they aren't showing the other side, because in the scientific world the other side shut up a hundred years ago, so now the religious side is pretending to be the opposing scientific side.

Well I was hoping to add something from Pharyngula but I think he was bored of the subject matter before the museum even opened, can't be mad at him for that.