Fun with Reconn
13 November 2007 by Bob
Got this one from Pharyngula…
One “John Scalzi” went to the Creation Museum for us thinking folk, and reported back for us.
I’m tellin’ ya, this guy cracks me up:
Here’s how to understand the Creation Museum:Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we’re not talking just your average load of horseshit; no, we’re talking colossal load of horsehit. An epic load of horseshit. The kind of load of horseshit that has accreted over decades and has developed its own sort of ecosystem, from the flyblown chunks at the perimeter, down into the heated and decomposing center, generating explosive levels of methane as bacteria feast merrily on vintage, liquified crap. This is a Herculean load of horseshit, friends, the likes of which has not been seen since the days of Augeas. And you look at it and you say, “Wow, what a load of horseshit.” [...] And this is, in sum, the Creation Museum. $27 million has purchased the very best monument to an enormous load of horseshit that you could possibly ever hope to see.
Hey, and there’s even a photo-log!
WARNING: Don’t drink anything when you see any of this stuff.
Enjoy…
13 November 2007, on 4:17 pm
I’m laughing my ass off right now!
Thanks for posting this.
13 November 2007, on 6:26 pm
A monument to stupidity. They should be so proud.
13 November 2007, on 6:34 pm
I’m waiting with bated breath for my whackjob aunt- who donated upwards of six figures to the building of this Monument To Ignorance, to come to town and take the whole family there. Like I’m gonna spend twenty bucks on that pile of manure. Figured on a camera, maybe some homemade stickers with that simple scarlet “A” to place strategically. The Horseshit Museum is about 10 miles from my house and I was fully intent on monkeywrenching the construction process, until I found out they had the property fenced and patrolled- with guards and dogs. It’s like they read my mind
13 November 2007, on 6:41 pm
My oldest son, who has a Physics degree went down to a university in Kentucky to check out an alternative teacher certification program that allows one to work as a teacher and get a paycheck on a temporary certificate while earning a real one, and he found out that Kentucky only hires PART TIME Physics and higher-level science teachers for high school! Science is not very highly regarded in their neck of the woods. At first I was surprised that Kentucky was so lacking in science, then I remembered where the Creation Museum is located.
13 November 2007, on 7:23 pm
I’m curious… can someone explain to me what the “other side” of the holocaust is?
13 November 2007, on 8:39 pm
Oh my Maude, that was hilarious!
One that sticks out in my mind for some reason: there were no weeds before the Fall–!
Our Lady, that Hitler and the Nazis were actually atheists, of course, so they persecuted and attempted genocide on the Jews in the name of no god rather than for religious reasons. /snark
13 November 2007, on 8:51 pm
Raindogzilla wrote
Make that armed guards. When a group of us from the Panda’s Thumb went to see it shortly after it opened there were armed private security people, off-duty sheriff’s deputies in fact, patrolling.
13 November 2007, on 9:52 pm
Make that armed guards. When a group of us from the Panda’s Thumb went to see it shortly after it opened there were armed private security people, off-duty sheriff’s deputies in fact, patrolling.
How very friendly and inviting. That’s not very Christian, is it? Oh wait…
13 November 2007, on 10:17 pm
Spontaneous generation does happen! With not a horse in sight, the Shitpile is expanding! RBH, right before they opened, the lunatics at that particular asylum were petitioning the Guv’ner- Kentucky, remember?- for official police powers on their property. You can Petition the Ernie Fletcher with Prayer! Don’t know what the result was on that particular plea but, fortunately, Fletcher got his ass handed to him on election day and Steve Beshear is a lot more, well, rational…
14 November 2007, on 2:40 am
OurLady – I thought the ‘other side’ of the Holocaust were the deniers – those who deny there was a Holocaust at all. Mel Gibson’s daddy is one of those – the acorn doth not fall far from the tree in that family…
14 November 2007, on 11:38 am
I’ve heard of the deniers but I’d never heard the atheist story. Both are ridiculous.
14 November 2007, on 5:20 pm
I really miss the idea that the Earth was the center of hte universe. That was a real self esteem booster. Maybe we could go back to that too!
14 November 2007, on 6:51 pm
Last night it occurred to me that to bring balance into the equation (you know, support the Creation Museum in its heroic mission to stand up to the hellish persecution from the overwhelming majority of evilutionist museums by Teaching the Controversy! (TM)), someone should open an Ancient Astronaut Museum, illustrating how the True Origin (TM) of the universe is due to our all-powerful alien overlords.
It could have a Velikovsky and Sitchin Wing, a Von Daniken Room, a Hall of Encounter Experiences, all referencing the True Truth (TM) found in these True Prophets’ (TM) writings…
15 November 2007, on 12:15 am
THE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT MUSEUM:
Because, as Ken Ham has proven, even Imaginary Things deserve their own Museums!
15 November 2007, on 11:24 am
Brooklyn Boy;
Jjust do a Google search for “Flat Earth Society” for a “self esteem Cocaine line.” Yep, these TRULY nostalgic folks are for real.
15 November 2007, on 11:29 am
And don’t forget Nimoy Hall
15 November 2007, on 7:17 pm
^ *revising blueprint of Ancient Astronaut Museum* That should work nicely right after you’ve been through the Forbidden
BullshitBible Room…15 November 2007, on 7:22 pm
Oh and Star, I think Raindogzilla was just trying out a branding idea. I like it. Here’s another:
Stand By to be Stupefied!
Quite frankly, I’d enjoy a TAAM much more than the CM – ‘coz comedy just ain’t what it used to be.
15 November 2007, on 9:28 pm
[...] This theory of creation (sorry, scientists) remains popular today even among those who are not religiously inclined, perhaps because it sounds more “sciencey” than mythological and Biblical accounts. The comments on Bob’s Creation Museum post got me to thinking that if creationism/intelligent design has its own museum, why not paleocontact? There are a lot more writings to reference (the CM just has the Bible) and just think how much fun the displays would be (although I suspect that any depictions of the ancient astronauts would follow Star Trek’s example and simply show human beings with oddly colored skin and facial features, like antennae)! So I Googled ™… [...]