"Prepare To Believe!"-Creation Museum To Open

[Jcrowley]

Bones of contention


Guardian Weekly

Just off the interstate, a couple of junctions down from Cincinnati airport, over the state line in rural Kentucky, the finishing touches are being put to an impressive-looking building. When it is finished and open to the public next summer, it may, quite possibly, be one of the weirdest museums in the world.

The Creation Museum - motto: "Prepare to Believe!" - will be the first institution in the world whose contents, with the exception of a few turtles swimming in an artificial pond, are entirely fake. It is dedicated to the proposition that the account of the creation of the world in the Book of Genesis is completely correct, and its mission is to convince visitors through a mixture of animatronic models, tableaux and a strangely Disneyfied version of the Bible story.

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Its designer, Patrick Marsh, used to work at Universal Studios in Los Angeles and then in Japan before he saw the light, opened his soul to Jesus, and was born anew. "The Bible is the only thing that gives you the full picture," he says. "Other religions don't have that, and, as for scientists, so much of what they believe is pretty fuzzy about life and its origins . . . oh, this is a great place to work, I will tell you that."

So this is the Bible story, as truth. Apart from the dinosaurs, that is. As you stand in the museum's lobby you are surrounded by life-size dinosaur models, some moving and occasionally grunting as they chew the cud. Beside the turtle pool, two animatronic, brown-complexioned children, demurely dressed in Hiawatha-like buckskin, gravely flutter with movement. Behind them lurk two small Tyrannosaurus Rexes. This scene is meant to date from before the Fall of Man and, apparently, dinosaurs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,,1954377,00.html

Sounds like a skit from the not-ready-for-prime-time-players.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. huh. ha. haha. HAHAHA. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

I GOT's to go see this place. I need a good laugh every so often. Of course, they might arrest me once I am inside.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Wouldn't a giant "I AM DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS" neon sign be cheaper

and make exactly the same point?

[hobbit709]

6. A truckload of rocks

would be smarter

[dipsydoodle]

3. Will they have holograms

of a totally naked Eve munching an apple and Cain killing Abel too. :rofl:

[MindPilot]

4. Having lived in that area, I can safely say

they couldn't have found a better place for it.

[badgerpup]

5. WHAT? The kids aren't white and dressed in 1950's style clothing???

:wow: I call HISTORICAL REVISIONISM!! :crazy:
Somebody has a serious political agenda here...
:rofl:

[Sapphocrat]

7. And none to soon for my brainwashed second-cousin...

...who once went on a field trip to a natural history museum in Boise with his class from the "Christian academy." At the end of the docent's tour of the dioramas and what-knot of dinosaurs and prehistoric bipeds, the teacher turned to her 11-year-old charges and reminded them that everything they had just seen and heard was wrong.

The kid is a teenager now, and wants to become either a minister, or join the Air Force so he can bomb Iraq. Seriously.

And he still believes the earth is 6,000 years old, and that we all are descendants of a man and a woman named Adam and Eve.

P.S. Can you guess that his is part of the extended family I never talk to?

[Applan]

8. Love this paragraph....

But what, I ask wonderingly, about those fossilised remains of early man-like creatures? Marsh knows all about that: "There are no such things. Humans are basically as you see them today. Those skeletons they've found, what's the word? . . . they could have been deformed, diseased or something. I've seen people like that running round the streets of New York."

New York. More likely Kentucky I would say

[Minnesota_Lib]

9. Another roadside attraction.....

Just north of the interstate at the intersection of Flat Earth Road and Rapture Lane. Bring the kids! We have plenty of old refrigerators out back for them to play in.

[shadowknows69]

10. Othe religions don't have that?

Hey asswipe almost every known religion has some kind of creation myth. Many of which your precious christianity "borrowed" to build your own bullshit myths.

[Richard Steele]

11. I already believe...

...that fear-driven WILLFUL IGNORANCE is a
cancer upon our society.

[FlaGranny]

12. What the?

definition of museum: "a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value." Doesn't that rule out calling the place a museum?

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. I'm certainly not prepared to believe

but I am prepared to take their money.

They've been stocking their store with my dinosaur t-shirts. :rofl:

[roseBudd]

14. A journalist for GQ or Esquire (I forget) got a sneal preview & he reported a saddle on a dino

I kid you not. Because riding dinosaurs would be really easy I'm sure.

[pooja]

15. At first I said "awesome" then I clicked further...

I thought it would be a museum dedicated to all beliefs of creation... that would be wayyyy cooool

[hsher]

16. Who was Cain's wife?

And where did she come from? Bible-thumpers should answer that. I love his, "The Bible is the only thing that gives you the full picture," he says. "Other religions don't have that, and, as for scientists, so much of what they believe is pretty fuzzy about life and its origins..." Sounds like he's fully programmed and ready for drone assignments.

This museum will be like something out of a fucked Lawrence Welk Show ViewMaster.

[flakey_foont]

18. Mrs Cain!

and all the little Cains --- Nova Cain,, Co Cain,,, John Mc Cain, Lana Cain

[flakey_foont]

17. ah, geez

it boggles the mind!