An Evolutionary Biologist Visits the "Creationism Museum"

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141900/an_evolutionary_biologist_visits_the_%22creationism_museum%22/

Posted by PZ Myers, Pharyngula at 5:00 AM on August 11, 2009.

Where guards are ready with tasers to suppress criticism of the museum's loony ideas.

We visited the Creation "Museum" last Friday.

I'm careful to put the title in quotes, because it is not a museum in any respectable sense of the word. I knew this ahead of time; I had no expectation of any kind of credible presentation in this place, but what impressed me most is how far it failed to meet even my low hopes. They clearly want to ape a real museum, but they can't — their mission is the antithesis of open inquiry.

The guards are a clear example. Real museums have guards, of course: they're there to protect valuable exhibits from theft and vandalism. But real museums want their guards to be discreet and not interfere with the attendees appreciation of the exhibits. At the Creation "Museum", one of the jobs of the guards is to suppress criticism. They hover about in rather conspicuous uniforms, armed with tasers, and some use police dogs to check out the visitors. They don't want dissent expressed in their building, and they admit it themselves.

Think we'll ever rid our species of this blight?

than Darwin Awards take them out.

Thanks for posting this...I don't want to give them the money by going myself.

The only thing not mentioned was that P.T.Barnum's famous sign was missing...you know:

"This way to the Egress."

which would result in another Dark Age of more war, killing of non believers and destroying of whole libraries of study. I wish I could say these people don't creep me out but they do.