The "Creation Evidence Museum" is real [View All]

[booksenkatz]

Just got back from visiting my family in Texas. I had not been down to Glen Rose to see the dinosaur tracks in about 15 years and felt it was time to take my 4-year-old son to see them. I couldn't stifle my disgust as we drove into the park and saw a large building with huge, tantrum-throwing letters on its signage: CREATION EVIDENCE MUSEUM.:puke: I imagine the museum was just a great, cavernous, empty space, but I'll never know for sure, as I did not wish to give them my patronage. In retrospect, I should have gone in. Next time, I will. But someone will have to put duct tape over my mouth first. I'm trying to do better at keeping an open mind, even towards people like my cousin, who says that God gave us dinosaur bones to test our faith, etc.

I was very surprised to learn that the dino tracks I'd seen in the late 1980s are already pretty much gone. The explanation given is that the freezing/thawing cycles take their toll on the tracks. Imagine that! The tracks are mostly located in the shallow waters of the river. Personally, I wondered if it had anything to do with the Comanche Peak nuclear facility right up the creek, but what the hell do I know. The tracks survived millions of years but can't take five goddamn minutes of exposure to us... or um, freezing/thawing cycles, yeah, that's the ticket. Sheesh.