Wednesday, December 8, 2010

My Visit to the Local Creationist Museum (Seriously, I'm Not Making This Up)

Believe it or not, this museum is only 10 or 12 miles from my home, outside San Diego.


This journey through time will be a very short one, as the entire universe, earth included, according to creationist belief, is only 6,000 years old.


This works way better than carbon-14 dating.


I missed whether it was a standard day or a metric day.


In support of a worldwide catastrophe, creationism cites the same geological evidence as science, though with some rather significant differences in interpretation.


Noah's sons went their separate ways, assisted by land bridges spanning the oceans, thanks to a Flood-induced ice age. The animals from the Ark dispersed along these same land bridges, perhaps not whales and other sea creatures.

And I thought Neanderthals survived in the form of Tea Party followers.

I wish I had our high school class valedictorian, Karl Van Bibber, to explain this to me.

If I can follow the logic, mutations (which are all bad) get filtered out of the gene pool, keeping creation constant. There is, however, the mother-in-law exception.

That's right, evolution is just a religion, which makes creationism the true science. Why aren't our kids being taught this in school?

The "bad fruits" of evolution. No good can come from allowing people to think for themselves. That's why we need knowledgeable people in authority to do our thinking for us.

Evolution apparently played a part in the Final Solution. Actually, murderous bigots were killing Jews en masse long before Darwin. The Catholic Church even made saints out of some of these medieval pre-Hitlers. (Sorry, I was trying really hard to keep this objective.)

A browse through the museum's book store. No, I didn't Photoshop the book title.

10 comments:

Tony Previte said...

Free Admission!!! YeHaaaw!

I've got to ask, did you get to talk to anyone there?

Anonymous said...

This piece provided me with some well-needed comic relief from studying for my final stats exam. Thank you!

John McManamy said...

Hey, Tony. A geologist there actually invited me to ask questions. But what was I going to ask?

John McManamy said...

Hey, Anonymous. Anything to take your mind off stats is good. :)

Porcelaine said...

This is hilarious! I'd love to see more because I'm just curious at how crazy the museum gets! Thanks for this post!

John McManamy said...

Hey, Porcelaine. You got it. There's more photos where those came from. Stay tuned ...

Knee said...

I'm curious to hear their interpretation of why some of us have mental disorders. Perhaps we are direct descendants of evil fire-breathing dragons? Because the genetic selection process proves that we are inherently perfect, correct? So, if human, then perfect. Got it. I must be a dragon.

Natasha Papousek said...

That museum is one reason we didn't move to Santee...

John McManamy said...

Hey, Knee. No. Since you and I are not perfect maybe God didn't create us. :)

John McManamy said...

Hey, Natasha. Glad to have you in the neighborhood. :)