My guess is that most of the people who go there, do so just to laugh at it. But hey! Money’s money! My favorite comments from the Fark threads today:
warbond: To actually believe that every living thing came from the same point of origin is beyond delusional.
Dorf11: You mean like “God did it”?
Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
Jake
Please God, someone tell me that pic is photoshopped and not something from Devolutionist Nauseum.
Billy K
Oh Lawd – iz dat sum Raptor Jesus?
linda
oh lordy, where is that image from. please confirm that it’s something you ‘shopped up this a.m. …
raff
That pic is awesome in so many ways…
Bubblegum Tate
The pic is in the Fark thread, as is this piece of awesome along with this great bit of funning. As for this brilliant graph, I heartily endorse placing it in any blog posting where wingnuts are crying about “the oppressed Christians.”
As I said when I first heard about this museum, I would love to go to it, preferably in some sort of intoxicated state (it’d be like a fundies-are-stupid version of a Pink Floyd laser light show), but only if I could go without paying.
Mary
John Scalzi just published his report and photostream on his recent visit to the museum. Go!
Incertus (Brian)
Every time I see that graph, I want to say “wacka wacka wacka.”
Dreggas
Wait isn’t that the scene out of Carnosaur where the baby dino looks all cute and stuff in Jesus’ arms but then turns and eats him?
I myself prefer adult preaching Carnosaur to Baby Carnosaur.
RSA
Some of the reviews linked off the main page are hilarious. There have to be some spoofs there, right? A few samples, ordered by entertainment value, apparently from different writers:
Jake
Silly Evanjellycals, all this time you were thinking you’d be swept up in the glorious Rapture.
Chomp.
capelza
“God created man in his own image. God created dinosaurs in the image of his cousin Ted.”
Anyone ever see Eddie Izzard’s show where he does a ripping good take on Jesus and the donosaurs.
This is a transcript, the youtube is gone…and if you haven’t seen him, Izzard’s God always sounds like James Mason.
dhost.info/zolwbuzz/?p=238
Michael D.
Heck no. It’s an actual photograph. I believe Sears-Roebuck had something set up back then. Or Peter was a shutterbug.
zmulls
Jesus and dinosaurs?
Does the museum have an exhibit about the Velocirapture?
neil
Every time I see that graph, I want to say “wacka wacka wacka.”
Pac-Man, not Fozzie Bear, I trust?
cleek
ouch!
jeffreyw
I’m starting to think that whole taken up in the Rapture thing is just a horrible transcription error by the Greeks. They were, of course, talking about being eaten up by a raptor.
Zifnab
Creationist Museum Mon has evolved into… Mega Creationist Museum Mon!
Jon H
John Scalzi has posted his Creation Museum trip report at the Whatever.
Grumpy Code Monkey
It’s scary how good a job they did in building the museum; the dinosaur models are especially remarkable. It’s sad to me that someone who is obviously up on the latest scientific research on dinos is willing to use that expertise in service of something so deliberately and unabashedly anti-science.
Like Scalzi, I have to admire the craftsmanship that went into building this temple of horseshit. Unlike him, I can’t be so sanguine about it. This kind of shit works, because Americans are fixated on Teh Shiny.
Grumpy Code Monkey
Oh, and I have to chime in with my love of the picture of White Guy Jesus cradling a baby Velociraptor. That’s brilliant.
Blue Jean
Awww….it’s a Cutosaurus.