Genesis Of a Bad Idea

It turns out you don't have to go too far south in the United States to find idiocy. All you have to do is cross the Ohio River.

The Creation Museum opened recently in Petersburg, Kentucky, which is right on the Ohio River southwest of Cincinnati. This museum is a far worse idea than Dickens World in England. At least that theme park celebrates fiction that doesn't pretend to be anything else but makes valid socioeconomic points. The Creation Museum is devoted to the idea that the Book of Genesis is an accurate record of the beginning of the earth and that the first humans did not evolve from monkeys. In other words, it celebrates fiction as fact.

Constructed and operated by Answers In Genesis, a group promoting the idea that the earth is only six thousand years old, the Creation Museum promotes several lame-brained ideas. the most outrageous one is the idea that dinosaurs must have lived at the same time that humans did, and that their remains have been exploited by scientists trying to prove Darwin's theory of evolution and the fact that the earth has been around far longer than six millenia.

Aside from the fact that dinosaur remains have been mostly exploited for energy (fossil fuels), this creationist theory suggests less of an influence from the Bible and more of an influence from "The Flintstones." Next thing you know, they'll have exhibits on how the first humans were so advanced they built a modern civilization based on using mastodons for the work of machines invented in the twentieth century, and how they were able to drive cars powered by the courtesy of Fred's (or someone's) two feet.

I urge you, dear reader, not to visit this "museum," but if you must do so, have a gay old time. And if you find a Stuckey's or whatever on I-64 on the way home, pick me up a candy bar.