The One With Aldacron

I once spent 9 months in Kentucky. Now, I’m glad I’m far, far away from it.

A new museum is under construction in Boone County, Kentucky. With a price tag of $27 million, it is expected to see 250,000 visitors in its first year. But it is not a museum of art, nor is it a museum of history. It’s a museum of fantasy, fairy tales, and outrageous stupidity. It is designed by fools and morons, intended to turn the youth of America into the fools and morons of the future. Take a look at a few of the things it teaches:

Tyrannosaurus rex was a strict vegetarian, and lived with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

There were dinosaurs of every kind aboard Noah’s ark. Some dinosaurs managed to hang around until just a few hundred years ago. The legend of St. George slaying the dragon? That probably was a dinosaur.

The world was created in six, 24-hour days, some time between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Humans appeared on Day 6, and they didn’t evolve from anything.

The museum has a planetarium. But its programs, unlike those at other planetariums, will say that the light from the stars we see did not take millions of years to get here.

There also is a reproduction of a portion of the Grand Canyon. The message there is that it was created very quickly, from the waters from Noah’s flood. The fossils in rock layers there and in many other places around the world are of animals that drowned in the flood, the museum says.

Madness. But it gets worse. The senior pastor of a Lexington church, Rev. Bill Henard, had this to say:

“I think people will enjoy … being able to see a different side from what some scientific findings have shown,”

What a brilliant display of ignorance. What “different side” is there to scientific findings? Someone needs to teach the good Reverend that science is based on evidence, not flights of fancy. Might as well make a museum that claims lightning is caused by Thor’s hammer and call it a “different side from what some scientific findings have shown.”

If the idea that dinosaurs boarded Noah’s boat isn’t enough of the other side of science for you, try this one:

There also will be an exhibit suggesting that belief in evolution is
the root of most of modern society’s evils. It shows models of children
leaving a church where the minister believes in evolution. Soon the
girl is on the phone to Planned Parenthood, while the boy cruises the
Internet for pornography sites.

How about that? All of these years we’ve believed that the interest young boys express in pornography was a hormonal thing. How could science have been so wrong? It was belief in evolution causing it all along. Gee, what about all of those god-fearing boys and girls who don’t believe in evolution? Those boys aren’t looking at porn at all, of course. And the girls aren’t having abortions out of fear of what their fathers will say or do. No, not at all.

If you are planning on visiting Kentucky any time soon and are looking for an afternoon of comedy, the Creation Museum should be a good source of it. We all love to laugh at stupidity. Then again, I wouldn’t want to spend any money on admission to such a place. No sense at all in contributing to the ignorance of our children.

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