The line to get tickets at about 9:45 a.m. (#1)
The line to get tickets at about 9:45 a.m. (#2)
The line to get tickets at about 9:45 a.m. (#3)
Me and PZ!
A mastodon skeleton in the lobby.
The first hint of their animatronics. (Notice the absence of running, screaming, and dieing.)
I did like the animatronics.
Items 2,3, and 4 describe the mausoleum very well.
There's a video that plays with this that shows a "paleontologist" who started question evolution (and paleontology) because "I read the Bible".
Because they try to make all of the facts fit to the answers that support their 2,000 y/o book.
Multiple lines of evidence vs. the Bible. Also notice the lack of evidence to support "GOD'S WORD".
Is this saying that Triceratops is supposed to still exist according to evolution? Not surprisingly, their plaques confused me a bit.
At this point I'm debating what sort of headache medication to take.
Ummm... Then shouldn't there be many large canyons all over the world?
How freakin' big were the floating forests?!! Check out how much area the floating forests would have to cover. http://www.virginiaplaces.org/geology/coal.html
This part was actually pretty good.
The last one was only a brief respite before the continuing ignorance. Also notice the serpentine path the last picture took compared to the linear path of this one.
From left to right: 1) Sometimes when a man and woman find each other attractive... 2) No. There are over 6.7 billion other people on the planet. 3) Sometimes life sucks. (Continued on next picture)
(Continued from previous picture) 4) For what? You have to be more specific. 5) Every living thing has a limited amount of time on this planet. We are living longer than we ever have before, but immortality is a pipe dream.
Following the evidence vs. trying to make everything fit into an explanation from a 2,000 y/o book written by superstitious and ignorant ancient people. The serpentine vs. linear path is very prominent in this one.
A bit of humor to postpone my need for acetaminophine.
Head meet desk. Someone really needs to read "Misquoting Jesus".
Where's the third tablet?
"Hurry up, JC. My back is killing me, because your dad decided to kill off the triceratops I wanted to use to move this damn big rock."
Where's Peter and Mary?
You see quite a bit of Bible quotes in this place.
What do astrology and psychics have in common with the Bible? All make very vague predictions, and sometimes write them down after the outcome.
The bottom piece about Constantine is especially interesting. Read up on the Council of Nicea.
Entire plaque translated: "We're cherry-picking the evidence that supports what we want to be true."
"But the things found to have been wrong we'll ignore."
Dan Brown as an example of poisoning Christianity? Ugh! Where's the acetaminophen?
I really need to get an "Infidel Philospoher" t-shirt. (fourth one down)
Wow!! These people said so, and now I have to believe it! Also, ML didn't have that type of haircut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Luther46c.jpg
So popularity makes something true? Damn, that means I'm a muggle.
Actually, he converted to evangelical Christianity, went to seminary, and came out of that agnostic. Why is it that everyone who doesn't believe what they do is an "atheist"?
I've gotta find this book.
Some more "infidel" humor.
Why I'm against the dishonesty of the Creation Mausoleum.
Perhaps it was the headache, but I found the "CODE VIOLATIONS" tag very funny.
Drug dealers with bad aim? They're supposed to be over power lines.
Whatever.
Aha! Then why are there still CHURCHES + PREACHERS?!
Umm... isn't 1 in 3 33.333~%?
The darkness if from the bad lighting, not from the current state of affairs.
This should read "Amazing Cherry-Picking of Science Videos".
Someone at the Disco 'Tute is right now going, "Oh shit!"
Wait. Does this only mean the four-legged variety?
But they're all plants! /sarcasm
Someone has apparently never been stung.
And then here comes the barracuda. "Hide, Nemo! Hide!"
They forgot petty, childish, and (most of all) unnecessary.
Wait. What?
It looks like that bear is wanting to test that "reproduce within their own kind" thing.
Very picturesque, hunh.
Awww... Isn't it sweet.
WTF? Those teeth and it's eating a pineapple?
But pineapples and coconuts aren't "herbs".
So God used stem cells from Adam's rib to create Eve?
So the poisonous plants and such came later, I guess.
Thank these fruits for blue jeans, t-shirts, and skirts. You can also blame them for bellbottoms, MC Hammer pants, and our limited life span.
According to my dog's diet, this velociraptor is going to throw up when the museum staff goes to bed.
Boom chicka boom chicka wow wow...
It's all Eve's fault.
By this point, I read "safe" as "sane".
They blame all of this on Adam and Eve eating the fruit... Oh, and apparently atheists. Famine, predators, war, (Continued on next two pictures)
(Continued from previous picture) mass murders, childbirth, weather disasters, (continued on next picture)
(Continued from previous picture) drug abuse, and cemetaries.
Thorns have been around a long time? Wow! All of this must be true.
If this makes no sense, read the plaque in the next picture.
Well hell. This makes absolutely no sense either.
Now I'm confused. According to the history they've mangled... I mean, given so far everyone is a descendant of Eve.
Wait. This one isn't eating plants!
"(Chemicals that once had non-harmful functions at the creation changed to venoms after the Curse)." So venoms *evolved* after the Curse!
In Eden, every dinosaur is Barney. (the dinosaur that just won't die!)
So evolution "(mutations)" started after Adam's sin. Interesting.
Talk about cherry-picking... Evolution all over the place, but they still deny it's possible.
"Science is wrong, except for when we say it's right!"
Sorry for the blurriness. By this point, I was laughing.
So the whole damn universe has to die because Adam and Eve ate a fruit?
Uh oh. He's not eating leaves anymore, Toto.
Two kids and one on the way... Wait, isn't Eve Adam's clone? EWWWWW!!
A bite of fruit and the world quite literally goes to hell in a handbasket.
Evolution again.
Wait. If the amount made was only for food, what about oxygen?
By this point, I was considering the tour of this Mausoleum as "Burdensome Work".
Read my caption to the previous picture.
"Incest was okay, but it isn't anymore." EWWWW!!
"Momma always loved you more!"
"Thou shalt not put my brother before me."
"Can you guess how old I am? Can you?" Personally, I'm betting he was made not long before the spring of '07.
Did Noah take birth certificates onboard the Ark with him?
Ummm... I think they needed a bigger boat.
"We don't have any idea what gopher wood is but it's mentioned in the Bible, so it's important."
"Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." So the waters raised less than 26' to cover the mountains? Those were some damn short mountains.
I hope he used brass. Iron and water don't work well together.
And Noah built this? "Noah was a drunk and look what he accomplished."
Well, AiG does seem to have a sense of humor.
Notice the two dinosaurs starting to walk up the plank.
"...God brought young adults. Being smaller, they would also be easier to care for." Someone has never babysat, let alone had kids.
Everybody now!! "In the Navy..."
How is it that this makes courtesy (chivalry) disturbing?
This gives me flashbacks to that movie about a big boat and some iceburgs.
That looks higher than 26 feet to me.
Damn... Humor isn't working. Here comes that headache again.
Oh wait. It's a showing of *Deep Impact*. Oh no...
Noah: "Watch that first step..."
"... or that the Ark ever existed at all outside of someone's imagination."
After five months on a boat, it's no wonder they're kissing the ground.
Some things never change.
Just to reiterate, using a really old and outdated book...
You can now eat earth worms.
Whoa... They make medication for you if you think animals, birds, and the ground talks to you.
And I thought the earlier parts were bad. (continued on next picture)
(Continued from previous picture) "We start with the end result we want and massage the facts to fit."
Where the hell's the Tylenol?
Must... not... hit... head... on... plate... glass.
Wait. This isn't bad. Has it all been a joke up to here?
Still not bad. Maybe this won't be so bad after all.
Argh... Fuck Tylenol. I need Jack Daniels!
The use of blindness by them is ironic.
According to this, everyone should be near *and* far sighted.
Wow... Natural selection in bacteria to enable them to better survive in an evironment that contains antibiotic is *not* evolution. Make that JD a double!
I'm beginning to think they may be right. Those who founded this museum must be from another planet entirely. There's no way we can share any of the same DNA... Right?
But things settle in water by order of mass.
The Earth *was* flat, but the flood turned it into an oblate spheroid?
It's called the Ice Age, and evidence suggests there being more than one.
And everything layered itself into the strata so it would support (everybody say it with me now) *evolution*.
"Too small and too slow"? Only if you believe the world was created after humans started domesticating the dog.
"Last few centuries"? See my previous caption. They keep conflating anthropogenic selection with natural selection.
No. "Recently" is your unsupported suggestion.
I find myself wanting to crawl into a pouch.
But why? There's only a few of each species left. They wouldn't have any competition to make it necessary for them to relocate.
How did they tie the rafts together?
Only if you cherry-pick the evidence to support the answer you want to come to.
No, the "scoffers" say that things change over time. The universe, the planet, and even the organisms on it. Do they see the irony of calling the "scoffers" *willingly ignorant*?
This is just to corrupt children. In no way do they endorse that humans ever rode dinosaurs. However, they do believe that dinosaurs and humans coexisted at one time, so I'll leave it up to you. I also didn't see a sign that told me I was too old to ride it. I had to take another SSA member's word for it.
I think this is supposed to be an ostrich. I'm not sure why it's there, but it's a very pretty sculpture.
Corrupting young minds since May 28, 2007.
We'll interpret these books to make them more palatable to young minds.
Could it be they're actually trying to do something good?
"...evolutionary believes have dehumanized our perception of different people groups." Wait, what?
Pretty lily pads.
What the hell?
Oh shit. I didn't realize that green Christmas lights were a dermatological disorder for T-Rexes.
Pretty landscaping... screwed up by the power supply station.
If I had only brought a rod, reel, bait, and a frying pan.
Pretty blooms.
This is the most calm I've felt since I got here.
Relaxing.
Oh sunuvabitch! NESSIE?!! That's it. I've had enough!
