Looking at the Creation Museum

If you are not up on the Creation Museum, birthed from Ken Ham's complete lack of understanding of science, and complete faith in the bible, you may wish to catch up. It is all Young Earth Creation Science. Dinosaurs and Man side by side on Earth and on the Ark. And the attitude that science supports these ideas. He is a part of Answers in Genesis. A ridiculous organization, living by these ridiculous tenets.

Utter bunk.

PZ Meyer has a run down on the museum, the folly and troubles of creationism.

Does the opposition to creationism matter? Yes, it does. Answers in Genesis is a predatory organization: it thrives on ignorance, and it misinforms and misleads and lies specifically to inculcate the kind of gullibility and fear and desperation that will send more donations to its coffers.

It's not just children who are scammed. Read my father knew no science for an example of what Ken Ham really feeds on.

He needed more care, himself, but there was no money left to pay for a homemaker, or even a cleaning woman. I went out weekly and did as much as I could; church people mended his clothes and brought food, neighbours checked on him. But there was always a shortfall.

When he died, at 92, and I picked up the reins of his finances, I found that month's bill from AIG: $70. For DVDs. To give away, of course; Dad had no TV, no DVD player, no video player: he was almost blind.

That's what the museum is all about: fleecing the poor, the weak, the ignorant, the confused.

Too many people get bled dry by religious organizations. And they do so eagerly and happily. What a lovely con.

Unlike the NYT, here is a good response to the museum and Ham.

That says all you need to know of the merit of this museum.

Crooks and Liars has more.

Adults have to pay $19.95 to enter the museum and hear pseudo-science. Those same adults can stop by a public library and check out books about real science for free.