Writer John Scalzi recently visited the Creation Museum. He has written his report, assessed his impressions, and concluded…well, you should read his conclusions for yourself, here. [1]
I do not have Mr. Scalzi’s flare for describing expensive nonsense in such finely satirical, subversive, and somewhat detached a manner. There is also a FlickR show attached worth a look—go through the images separately, though, rather than as a slide show, as he has added comments also worth a look.
The capacity of human beings to deceive themselves and ignore evidence that things really aren’t the way they wish them to be might in itself be proof of god’s existence. How else does one explain it? The fact that money was spent to put this elaborate Rube-Goldberg explanation on exhibit, that people who are otherwise perfectly reasonable and intelligent seem totally unwilling to use that intelligence and reason when it comes to a pet obsession, is proof of something.
Surely it is. But what?
I am not at all sure.
But they are.
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