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Photos and reactions from the atheists, skeptics and freethinkers who visited Kentucky's Answers in Genesis Creation Museum on Friday (see previous article) are starting to pop up all over the blogosphere. Since there were over 300 people in the trip sponsored by scientist PZ Myers and the Secular Student Alliance, the number of blog postings is large and growing. Here are some snippets from various participants:This one is part of an overall impression from the writer of a blog called The Ruffington Post:
…I had a great time. I went with my girlfriend and I think I can safely speak for both of us when I say that we were treated very well by the museum staff and the SSA. I spoke with several of the staff (security, eatery employees, and gift shop workers) and all treated me just like a regular visitor… I didn't find the Creation Museum's way of discerning true claims from false ones to be at all credible- dogmatic assertion. The Creation Museum has about as much evidence as any "museum" based on the supernatural could have- none.
Here's another impression, this time from the blogger who writes Le Café Witteveen:
There were rooms that showed the darkness and destruction that results from disconnection with God. Some of them could scare the bejesus out of any body, especially babies being forced through that place. Tina (the blogger’s wife) overheard one teenage girl asking her grandma what the room meant, and her grandma couldn’t answer. This little girl appeared really confused. While her grandma tried to explain Scopes Monkey Trial, the grand daughter was trying to understand what was so bad about it. When she was curious why the room she entered was covered in graffiti and “news” clippings without explanation, grandma didn’t answer her so Tina spoke up and said, “I think the things on the wall are metaphors for what happens without god.” The grandma said, “What did she say?” And it sounded like the girl was able to relay what Tina said. I have a feeling that grandma’s tug and acceleration away from us was a sign that she didn’t appreciate her answer regardless.
Blogger EVO-DEVO MIKE gave a blow by blow description of the exhibits. Here's a sample:
...Passing beyond the Ark, we enter a hall showing the mechanisms of the flood. According to AiG (Answers in Genesis, the Bible-literalist group that built the museum), the waters of the deep rise up and flood the planet like the scenes from "Deep Impact" where the massive wave rolls across the landscape. Most of the smart intelligent brains at this point looked as if they needed a serious re-boot. Jaws were dropping, people could hardly suppress snickers, and some of us started moving on, our minds barely suppressing the need to have a "Scanners" moment.
If you think pictures are worth a thousand words, Blag Hag Jen has a profusely illustrated diary of her visit (in 5 parts!)...
As does No Guy in the Sky. Having law enforcement experience himself, he concentrates at first on the attitudes of the numerous security personnel and later talks in more depth about his overall impressions.The Empirical Infidel provides a typical example of the reaction a lot of the skeptics had to the museum:
...While it was fun to laugh at the pseudo-science and anachronisms, when I thought about how many people tour this place and think all this crap is valid information, it starts to make me a little sick to my stomach. The museum inside and out screams of money. Huge amounts of currency must have been poured into the place and all for the expressed goal of teaching people that their public school education is wrong. It's like going to Disneyland and being earnestly told that Cinderella is historical fact.
PZ Myers of the Pharyngula science blog, describes his reaction to an exhibit describing how all dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden were vegetarians prior to the Fall of Man (IE: when Adam and Eve ate the apple from the Tree of Knowledge).
And here he talks about an incident where one of the skeptic group was expelled from the museum.
This is just a tiny sample of what's appeared in blogs so far. More links to skeptic descriptions of the Creation Museum visit can be found on Greg Laden's blog. More of PZ Myer's comments are appearing on Pharyngula and more bloggers are sounding off about the trip all the time.
Photo Credits:
1) PZ Myers rides again! Artist's rendition of PZ Myers on the museum's saddled dinosaur (from Pharyngula)
2) Dino-cop! A security guard at the Creation Museum (photo provided by No Guy in the Sky)
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