Posted on 08/02/2008 12:42:02 PM PDT by Soliton
Creation Museum, Petersburg, Kentucky, by A.M. Kinney Associates. At a time when museums are accused of turning themselves into theme parks, along comes a bizarre new institution that makes Walt Disney World seem like the Albertina. This is not surprising, since the displays of cartoonish dinosaurs and humanoids at the Creation Museum—devised to supplant Darwin’s theory of evolution with a Bible-based fantasia of the world’s origins—were dreamed up by a former Universal Studios designer, Patrick Marsh. I use the term “institution” in both the museological and the psychiatric sense, because this only-in-America loony bin is no more a museum than I am Napoleon. Even more unsettling than its mission to enlist impressionable children in the Christian fundamentalist crusade against scientific reason is the fact that there are already two dozen such creationist museums around the country, though none equals this in impressive presentation values that make it all the more pernicious. In flat-out rejection of the Enlightenment rationalism that brought the United States into being, the Creation Museum is more frightening than Disney’s Haunted Mansion. Let us pray.
how dare anyone disagree with the religion of darwin? this is almost as bad as disagreeing with global warming. off to the reeducation camp.
Been there?
We enjoyed it.
I visited a wonderful museum, the Royal Tyrell Musem in Drumhiller Alberta. It bills itself as the best dinosaur museum in existance and probably is. It exhibits an enormous number of complete and partial dinosaur fossils.
It also has a room where the story is told of the Burgess Shale fossils found not terribly far away in British Columbis.
As I was observing a fantastic display of a dinosaur, an old gentlemen came up next to me and shook his head. “ I just can’t imagine the men who hunted those with nothing but spears”
It is so sad....there it all was, laid out in excruciating but magnificant detail and he just couldn’t see.
Huh? I don't get it.
Did Adam have a belly button?
Rejection of the Enlightenment...
Who needs rational thought anyway? Just follow the local shamans, and believe everything they tell you, and you'll be just fine.
Speak softly lest the bogeyman gets you!
I don’t know. He’s dead now.
But I would guess yes.
Does that help the fundraiser?
I am not taking either side of the ongoing creationism/evolution debate.
However, this article is in Architectural Digest and the piece deals with many museums.
I find it interesting that the paragraph on the creationism museum says not one word about its architecture. The author seems to go out of his/her way to critique the subject of this particular museum and and in his/her zeal forgot to mention the building.
A suspicious person might say the author is a bit biased, which would then call into question the content of their piece.
Yup
.....Huh? I don’t get it.....
Although he was surrounded by evidence, although he was immersed in a chain of events covering eons of time, he insisted on inserting man where there were no men.
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