Slog - Comments on A Scientist Visits the Creation Museum http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum ... that insists the earth is 6,000 years old and finds 500-million-year-old fossils in a nearby Wal-Mart parking lot. Tom Robey--a friend, colleague, and recent bioengineering PhD--traveled to northern Kentucky and visited the Creation Museum. So why visit? Well, there's the curiosity of it all. According to the traffic director in the museum's parking lot, more than 500,000 people have visited the museum since it opened six months ago. That's a whole stink of a lot of people to see a little animotronic cavegirl feeding velociraptors carrots. Maybe I don't see them as enemies, but if ever I am going... Copyright 2008 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:45:44 -0800 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:54:45 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by robo God is just tricking you to test us. He put that fossil in the parking lot... or maybe Satan did. They are both so silly sometimes.

]]> robo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858364 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858364 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:03:55 -0800 Comment by Chris B While the irony of the location is amusing, the fact that he went there only to be turned away by the ticket price is... well... why'd I read that again?

John Scalzi wrote a much better report about what the museum is actually like:

http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=121

]]> Chris B http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858430 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:50:57 -0800 Comment by jz wait a minute--dude found that fossil in a wal-mart parking lot? thats crazy. astronomical odds, no?

]]> jz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858431 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:51:15 -0800 Comment by kinaidos It's also amazing the work god went to fold and fault and lift and crunch and crush everything just to make it all look exactly as it would have if in fact it was the result of billions of years of plate tectonics, erosion, and glacial scoring.
This raises the following dilemma. Either the earth really is the result of billions of years of natural development or god is insane.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858456 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858456 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:11:38 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I wanna know what happens with the velociraptor after the pretty cave-girl runs out of carrots.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858470 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858470 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:21:12 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Diamonds aren't expensive because they take 6000 years to form.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858479 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:26:40 -0800 Comment by louley Hmm. I always thought earth was created on Magrathea.

]]> louley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858487 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858487 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:29:52 -0800 Comment by andy niable well at least they've finally solved the long debate over what hairstyles were like in dinosaur times--looks like a Dorothy Hammel-Do really attracted those Velociraptors...

]]> andy niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858546 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858546 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:10:41 -0800 Comment by max solomon my friend Greg Courtney posted a couple videos on YouTube just after the opening of this insult to every rational person on the planet, digging up countless fossils adjacent to the Creation Museum site. growing up in Cincinnasty/Northern Kentucky, i thought all rocks were mostly fossils. how you could like there & rationalize them away with Jesus is fucking remarkable. have i said that monotheism sucks lately? cuz it does.

nevertheless, i am going to visit next time i go back to Cincy, just for the Schadenfreude.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858567 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858567 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:28:53 -0800 Comment by max solomon LIVE there. not like there....

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858569 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:29:39 -0800 Comment by Greg @9: Dude, use the Shift key. What's wrong with you today?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858727 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858727 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:03:39 -0800 Comment by Thomas Robey Thanks for the reference, Jonathan.

Chris B: I went to KY for an entirely different reason & the museum is only 10 minutes from the airport. there are a hundred great reviews of the museum. i was happy with the drive-by.

jz: not just behind the wal-mart, but in road cuts, stream beds, and grave sites.

thanks for all the visits! it's nice to get a bump from seattle's only blog.

]]> Thomas Robey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858881 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c858881 Science Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:36:28 -0800 Comment by Frank Habets A few errors to correct, just coz I'm anal.

The deposits, being late-mid-Ordovician, are 465 million years.

The trilo you've posted is an Elrathia Kingii, from the Cambrian. A better example of a trilobite from these beds would be an Isotelus or a Flexicalymene.

/yes, I'm very anal.

]]> Frank Habets http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c859901 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/a_scientist_visits_creation_museum#c859901 Science Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:54:45 -0800