Comments on: Should I go to the Creation Museum? http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Erika Price http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17410 Erika Price Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:55:33 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17410 Thanks Dan. I'm very embarrassed to have forgotten that you mentioned the park in the first place! Can I just pretend that it made for an excellent example of the fallibility of human memory, and duck, red-faced, under my desk? Thanks Dan. I’m very embarrassed to have forgotten that you mentioned the park in the first place! Can I just pretend that it made for an excellent example of the fallibility of human memory, and duck, red-faced, under my desk?

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17307 Dan Klarmann Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:02:21 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17307 Erika, I posted something about that cowboys and dinosaurs park <a href="http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/creation-in-covington/#comment-12859" rel="nofollow">here in my original post</a> about them putting up this museum. There is a link to a more detailed article. It's west of Akron. Erika, I posted something about that cowboys and dinosaurs park here in my original post about them putting up this museum. There is a link to a more detailed article.
It’s west of Akron.

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17300 Dan Klarmann Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:37:51 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17300 I didn't end up going. Our hotel was awash with bus loads of teens in matching fluorescent Jesus shirts, though. There didn't seem to be time to even do a drive-by, because 15 minutes out of the way is 15 minutes less dancing, eating, schmoozing, flirting, or conversing with like-minded people from other places. At the dance weekend, we were awash in other sorts of zanies. Like this cheerful fellow and his familiar shirt. <img src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/0329082206a.jpg" alt="Flying Spaghetti Monster Shirt"> (My phone is a barely adequate snapshot camera). The caption reads "Touched by his Noodly Appendage" in reference to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster" target="_blank" title="wiki: Flying Spaghetti Monster" rel="nofollow">Spaghediesm</a>. Pastafarianism arose in response to the Kansas Intelligent Design incursion in 2005. I didn’t end up going. Our hotel was awash with bus loads of teens in matching fluorescent Jesus shirts, though. There didn’t seem to be time to even do a drive-by, because 15 minutes out of the way is 15 minutes less dancing, eating, schmoozing, flirting, or conversing with like-minded people from other places.

At the dance weekend, we were awash in other sorts of zanies. Like this cheerful fellow and his familiar shirt.
Flying Spaghetti Monster Shirt
(My phone is a barely adequate snapshot camera).
The caption reads “Touched by his Noodly Appendage” in reference to Spaghediesm. Pastafarianism arose in response to the Kansas Intelligent Design incursion in 2005.

]]> By: Erika Price http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17298 Erika Price Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:03:58 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17298 I've pondered this too. I live in Columbus OH, probably not two hours away from the museum. Knowing this has clawed at my conscience. On one hand there exists a strong mirthful desire to look, laugh and blog about it, on the other hand I don't want to support the cause. The scales have tipped for me, I think- many, many blogs out there have posted comprehensive reviews and walk-thrus of the museum, many with oodles of pictures. So giving the museum the price of a ticket seems unjustified- nothing I write about the exhibit could surpass or improve upon the already stunning job others have done. However, I have heard that Cincinnati has <i>another</i> phony creationist exhibit, one where children dress up as cowboys and shoot dinosaurs (just like the real cowboys did). If I track down that exhibit I just might have to investigate. I’ve pondered this too. I live in Columbus OH, probably not two hours away from the museum. Knowing this has clawed at my conscience. On one hand there exists a strong mirthful desire to look, laugh and blog about it, on the other hand I don’t want to support the cause. The scales have tipped for me, I think- many, many blogs out there have posted comprehensive reviews and walk-thrus of the museum, many with oodles of pictures. So giving the museum the price of a ticket seems unjustified- nothing I write about the exhibit could surpass or improve upon the already stunning job others have done.

However, I have heard that Cincinnati has another phony creationist exhibit, one where children dress up as cowboys and shoot dinosaurs (just like the real cowboys did). If I track down that exhibit I just might have to investigate.

]]> By: projektleiterin http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17266 projektleiterin Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:57:07 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17266 Armchair critic. :D Armchair critic. :D

]]> By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17253 grumpypilgrim Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:25:02 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17253 I wouldn't spend my money on such a fraud, either out of curiosity or out of a belief that one cannot critique a fraud unless one experiences it. I don't need to visit Iraq or spend time in the White House to know that Bush should be impeached and Cheney should be jailed, and I don't need to visit a creationism "museum" to know it's a crock of horse dung. I wouldn’t spend my money on such a fraud, either out of curiosity or out of a belief that one cannot critique a fraud unless one experiences it. I don’t need to visit Iraq or spend time in the White House to know that Bush should be impeached and Cheney should be jailed, and I don’t need to visit a creationism “museum” to know it’s a crock of horse dung.

]]> By: projektleiterin http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17248 projektleiterin Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:26:48 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17248 "it" = the subject “it” = the subject

]]> By: projektleiterin http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17244 projektleiterin Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:31:52 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17244 I would have gone. Out of curiosity, but that's me. And I find criticism of any subject acquires a stronger stance if you have experienced it first hand. I would have gone. Out of curiosity, but that’s me. And I find criticism of any subject acquires a stronger stance if you have experienced it first hand.

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17242 Dan Klarmann Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:36:44 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17242 Okay, I'm on my way without email or internet for 3 days. I expect that I won't spend the time to visit this icon of American Philosophy on this trip, although I might drive past. Here's a good incisive look at it <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/magazine/chi-080120creationmuseum-story,0,2804703.story" target="_blank" title="Trapped in the Creation Museum" rel="nofollow">From a Chicago Tribune contributor</a> You can still respond and let me know what you'd'a done. Okay, I’m on my way without email or internet for 3 days. I expect that I won’t spend the time to visit this icon of American Philosophy on this trip, although I might drive past.
Here’s a good incisive look at it From a Chicago Tribune contributor

You can still respond and let me know what you’d'a done.

]]> By: Larry Louaville http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17224 Larry Louaville Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:15:10 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/26/should-i-go-to-the-creation-museum/#comment-17224 That's my same dilemma: I'd like to see it just so I can say -- and speak from the first hand experience of said -- but I don't want to contribute to their coffers. If there's a way to "visit" as a colleague of a sister institution or some sort of other "meeting of the minds" courtesy maybe... That’s my same dilemma: I’d like to see it just so I can say — and speak from the first hand experience of said — but I don’t want to contribute to their coffers.

If there’s a way to “visit” as a colleague of a sister institution or some sort of other “meeting of the minds” courtesy maybe…

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