It’s my creation, I do not know.
If the dream of a New Jersey group comes to fruition there could be another creationist attraction located in Northern Kentucky.
Founders of the Creation Science Hall of Fame, which now exists only as a website, would like to develop a brick-and mortar structure along Interstate 75.
“When we have the funds, we would like to locate on the highway, about halfway between the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter,” said Terry Hurlbut, secretary/treasurer of the group. “What better place to locate than between these two attractions? We envision that as people fly or drive in to see them, we will be a stop along the way.”
Oh good, just what I needed within shouting distance of my apartment, first the Scientology Church Of Greater Cincinnati, now the Hall Of Wildly Misappropriated Science Heroes.
The Creation Science Hall of Fame was developed as a website in 2009 and is devoted to sharing the beliefs of creationism.
It includes a directory of living and deceased inductees and a brief profile of each.
The section dedicated to deceased inductees begins with the Renaissance period.
The list includes Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel F.B. Morse, Louis Pasteur and George Washington Carver.
Living inductees include Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum.
Isaac Newton’s ghost is going to knife him some Kentuckians, dammit.
On the other hand, if the place has an animatronic Nikola Tesla on a velociraptor, I’m stealing it before the place accidentally gets napalmed and covered in bees. Evolved bees.
JPL
Bill Nye weeps.
quannlace
Well, at least they’re keeping the damn thing out of New Jersey. We’ve got enough problems.
MattF
You should petition the city government to change the name of the museum’s street address to “Darwin Avenue.”
MariedeGournay
Protestant idolators. Gives me a warm feeling inside.
SensesFail
@JPL:
As does Beakman.
jayjaybear
Wow, that list gets smaller (in both numbers and stature) as time marches on, doesn’t it? DA VINCI! NEWTON! MORSE! HAM! Ham? Who?
Interesting how they start the list before an evolutionary model had even been proposed. WHOA! You mean the folks before the mid-19th Century believed in Biblical Creation?! Whoa! Mindblowing!
Duh.
El Cid
At least they do the kindness of naming their project with its own parody name.
mattH
FTFY
Not if I beat you to it first.
Jerzy Russian
Perhaps this gentleman can pay a visit there and write about it. At least we would have additional laughs:
buffalobeast.com/117/let_there_be_retards.htm
Elizabelle
WaPost: CNN reporting Arlen Specter’s battle with cancer has taken grave turn.
OGLiberal
More on Dr. Hurlbut. Of course, in addition to believing in Jesus riding a dinosaur, he’s also a tea bagging Randian:
cpmonitor.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/why-i-wont-be-blogging-cnav-anymore/
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Terry_Hurlbut
And he’s not building it in NJ (my home state) because even the regular churchgoers here would laugh him out of town.
Punchy
So their Hall of Shame is just a bunch of really dead people?
That’s like starting a Hall of Fame For People Who Dont Believe in Quantum Mechanics and listing every famous scientist dead before the 1930s.
R-Jud
And then transmute their remains to gold.
Eric
Newton’s work on the fig was a transitional relic of undertstanding punctuated by an equilibrium that is with us to this day.
Elizabelle
From the reality-based world:
President Obama to make a statement/maybe a presser, on Hurricane Isaac, at about 1010 Eastern. Weather Channel to carry it live.
Feudalism Now!
Nikola Jumped Up Tesla riding a Utah raptor while hurling lightning at Thomas Edison’s ass would actually get me to visit this farce.
So Kentucky is now the Creationist mecca? More bourbon please!
Mr Stagger Lee
Wait, I thought Louis Pasteur was a vampire, at least I saw that on True Blood. :^D
Bill Murray
Da Vinci — from a 1550 biography “his cast of mind was so heretical that he did not adhere to any religion, thinking perhaps that it was better to be a philosopher than a Christian.”
these idiots think that any European living before ~1850 was a creationist
The Ancient Randonneur
They could save money and build it next to Dinosaurland. Jesus could have his own petting zoo!
mdblanche
@JPL: Bill Nye is too busy to sit around weeping.
SatanicPanic
@Punchy: No kidding. Pretty dishonest to automatically include people who didn’t live to have the chance to weigh the evidence. But if there’s a group of people in the USA more dishonest than evangelicals I haven’t heard of them.
rlrr
Sir Isaac Newton
I’m not sure Newton ever commented on whether Genesis was supposed to be considered a literal history.
In any case, Newton believed in astrology and alchemy. Outside of math and physics, Newton had some pretty nutty ideas.
He was also a heretic.
Culture of Truth
This museum would be perfect for Xanadu. I envision dinosaurs rising from the meadowlands ridden by Adam and Eve, led by Jesus astride a wooly mammoth, and Isaac Newton and Da Vinci following close behind on a velicoraptor and pterodactyl, respectively.
JPL
@mdblanche: Thanks. I found this interesting.. 34,455 likes, 7,009 dislikes
maya
The “Ark Experience”? Is that done in Odorama?
gelfling545
@Punchy: In other words, people unable to protest their inclusion.
rlrr
@gelfling545:
In other words. people unable to protest their inclusion.
Kind of like Mormon baptism for the dead…
El Cid
The Mankind Can Never Achieve Space Flight Hall of Fame.
Misterpuff
And yet it moves.
Further debasement of I-75: on one end, creationist cretinism and on the other, topless truck stops. Take yers pick, That’s America.
Villago Delenda Est
Ken Ham is a grifting sack of shit.
bemused
I don’t care if regressive idiots spend their own money building and visiting these creationist monuments to nutty ideology but they should keep their paws off taxpayer money to fund them. I forget what state was funding one or planning to fund one. I have no doubt they will all eventually fail in time unless they have a continual, reliable source of big money. They sure can’t count on attendance ticket costs to keep them going financially even if the entire 27% of American crazies visited the museums regularly. They would have to rely on big money donors and/or taxpayer money to keep their doors open long term.
lacp
The list includes Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel F.B. Morse, Louis Pasteur and George Washington Carver.
And Ken Ham. Jesus Genetically-Modified Christ. Words fail.
Suffern ACE
@Culture of Truth: Well, they might as well put that in Xanadu (Now renamed the American Dream Experience Extravaganza or something or other). Something eventually needs to go in there, or that $2.0 billion will be wasted.
rlrr
@Villago Delenda Est:
That’s an insult to sacks of shit.
Roger Moore
@Misterpuff:
I’ll take the topless truck stops, please. I suspect they’ll be the generally more popular option.
burnspbesq
Zandar gets on the board early with an Oingo Boingo quote. The pressure is now squarely on DougJ to respond.
Hale Poetry
Came for the Oingo Boingo title and lead-in, stayed for the scary info and delightful comments.
S. cerevisiae
Paging Dr. Myers, Dr. P.Z. Myers…
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Roger Moore: “I’ll take the topless truck stops, please.”
I wouldn’t. blech.
really, put those three words together in your head and mull it around a bit “Topless. Truck. Stops.”
I envision a bunch of flabby, gnarled old men with trucker hats.
Unless you like man-boob, I’d say you probably want to steer clear of a joint like that.
* shrug *
Roger Moore
@danah gaz (fka gaz):
AFAIK, it’s the staff, not the patrons, who are topless. Not that it’s necessarily a lot better, since I doubt that these are high-class joints. Still, I’d probably take a kidney stone over a creationist museum.
The Other Bob
The one good thing about the creationist meseum is that in ten or twenty years we can – hopefully – rename them the “Museum of Redneck History and Belief”. Just so we never forget how stupid a generation can become without decent education funding.
Jerzy Russian
@Misterpuff:
Just out of idle curiosity, do you know the mile markers of these places? I’m asking for a friend.
Citizen_X
I have no snark. I’m all out. Just, please tell me that there aren’t any public funds or tax credits for this shit, pretty please?
Gilgamesh
(Delurks) Wait, they included the man who disproved spontaneous generation?The mind boggles.
Joel
Penguins ain’t natural!
Roy G.
Jesus was a hippie
Peace and love was all He was about
That’s why they killed Him
‘Cause that shit’s something people can’t figure out.
Now some folks who worship Him
Are the ones who would have cheered at the crucifixion
They got no conviction
It doesn’t matter if the Man was fact or fiction.
But who’re you gonna call your fearless leader?
Who’s gonna put your fears to bed?
‘Cos heroes will never let you down
Just as long as they’re dead.
“Fearless Leader” – Soul Asylum
Tehanu
@jayjaybear:
What immediately comes to my mind is a Futurama episode set at Mars University, where the plaque over the main door read “Socrates – Vos Savant – Cognitron”.
Ms. D. Ranged in AZ (formerly IrishGirl)
We should only be so lucky!
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