This week marks the launch of the Big Valley Creation Science Museum, a facility which promises to provide definitive, “scientific” evidence to support that intellectual travesty summarized by the delightful oxymoron “creation science”.
“Creation science” affords endless delight to fans of human folly in all its glorious manifestations, and if its website is any indicator, this “scientific” “museum” should be funnier than a Marx Brothers Film Festival. Where else could you view ““Fossils and the Floodâ€, described “a fantastic visual arrangement that contains only genuine, museum quality fossils…AND a GIANT model of Noah’s ark!”
But the piece de resistance (sorry for the cheese-eating-surrender-monkey-speak, but you know us leftists) comes when the “museum”, this bastion of learning and erudition, this cornucopia of scholarship, this temple of science, refers to the most important scientific publication of the 19th century…and gets it wrong. Twice.
Guys…Darwin never wrote a book called “The Origin of the Species.” Were you, perhaps, referring to “On the Origin of Species”?
So much for science. How much credibility would you accord a self-proclaimed Christian theologian who kept referring to a book called the “Buy Bull”?
h/t “Smarter Than Ezra”, at “The Politic”.
I really wish this were a joke. If it were, it would be one of the most brilliant, and expensive, pieces of satire ever produced. The website is kitch enough to be a farce, but unfortunately, I don’t think it is.
For some real satire, someone showed me this site recently: http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/index.html