A enormous load of horseshit, and its $27 million Creation Museum.

Il est allé le visiter en voisin, et il nous fait part de son 
"admiration" pour ce royal et pyramidal monceau de crottin de cheval :
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=121

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Let me say this much : I have to admit admiration for the pure 
balls-out, high-octane creationism that’s on offer here. Not for the 
Creation Museum that mamby-pamby weak sauce known as “Intelligent 
Design,” which tries to slip God by as some random designer, who just 
sort of got the ball rolling by accident. Screw that, pal: The Creation 
Museum’s God is hands on! He made every one of those animals from the 
damn mud and he did it no earlier than 4004 BC, or thereabouts. It’s all 
there in the book, son, all you have to do is look. Indeed, every single 
thing on display in the Creation Museum is either caused by or a 
consequence of exactly three things:

1. The six-day creation;

2. Adam eating from the tree of life;

3. Noah’s flood.

Really, that’s it. That’s the Holy Trinity of explanations and 
rationalizations. And thus we learn fascinating things. Did you know, 
for example, that Adam is responsible not only for the fall of man, but 
also for the creation of venom? It didn’t exist in the Garden of Eden, 
because, well. Why would it? Weeds? Adam’s fault. Carnivorous animals 
(and, one assumes, the occasional carnivorous plant)? Adam again. 
Entropy? You guessed it: Adam. Think about that, won’t you; eat one 
piece of fruit and suddenly you’re responsible for the inevitable heat 
death of the universe. God’s kind of mean.

The interplay of this Holy Trinity of explanations comes to its full 
realization when the Creation Museum considers what really are its main 
draw: Dinosaurs. Are dinosaurs 65 million years old? As if — the Earth 
is just six thousand years old, pal! Dinosaurs were in the garden of 
Eden — and vegetarians, at least until the fall, so thanks there, Adam. 
They were still around as late as the mid-third millenium BC; they were 
hanging with the Sumerians and the Egyptians (or, well, could have). All 
those fossils? Laid down by the Noah’s Flood, my friends. Which is not 
to say there weren’t dinosaurs on the Ark. No, the Bible says all kinds 
of land animals were on the boat, and dinosaurs are a subset of “all 
kinds.” They were there, scaring the crap out of the mammals, probably. 
Why did they die off after the flood? Well, who can say. Once the 
flood’s done, the Creation Museum doesn’t seem to care too much about 
what comes next; we’re in historical times then, you see, and that’s all 
Exodus through Deuteronomy, ie., someone else’s problem.

But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that 
the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the 
Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is 
chutzpah. Because, look, that’s something you really have to sell if you 
want anyone to buy it. It’s one thing to say to people that God directly 
created the dinosaurs and that they lived in the Garden of Eden. It’s 
another thing to suggest they lived long enough to harass the Minoans, 
and do it with a straight face. It’s horseshit, pure and simple, but 
that’s not to suggest I can’t admire the hucksterism.

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