Comments on A Scientist Visits the Creation Museum

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.

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

wait a minute--dude found that fossil in a wal-mart parking lot? thats crazy. astronomical odds, no?

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.

I wanna know what happens with the velociraptor after the pretty cave-girl runs out of carrots.

Diamonds aren't expensive because they take 6000 years to form.

Hmm. I always thought earth was created on Magrathea.

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...

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.

LIVE there. not like there....

@9: Dude, use the Shift key. What's wrong with you today?

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.

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.