Is everyone rushing to the "creation museum" that opens this weekend????

Afraid I'll miss the grand opening -- I'll be home drinking beer and reading
Darwin.

No plans for Memorial Day? The Creation Museum, a $27 million production of
Answers in Genesis, is finally opening in northern Kentucky. From the New
York Times:

The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The
grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid the trees, and a
stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could be like any other
natural history museum, luring families with the promise of immense fossils
and dinosaur adventures.

But step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a
pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two prehistoric
children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home in the natural
world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic mechanisms turning them
into alluring companions, their gaping mouths seeming not threatening, but
almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus munches on leaves a few yards away. ?

[The scene] serves as a vivid introduction to the sheer weirdness and
daring of this museum created by the Answers in Genesis ministry that
combines displays of extraordinary nautilus shell fossils and biblical
tableaus, celebrations of natural wonders and allusions to human sin.
Evolution gets its continual comeuppance, while biblical revelations are
treated as gospel.

Last year, Answers in Genesis complained that a museum tour of ?Lucy,? the
remains of a 3-million-year-old human ancestor, was ?anti-creationist hype.?
The group?s own museum will also feature fossils, but presented as
cohabitants of the world of Noah and passengers on his ark.

Oddly enough, the American Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., is
opening its own new exhibit on Saturday. But the museum maintains that the
subjects of the ?Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids? exhibit
?are found only in folktales and other stories.?


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