# What Kind of Punk-Ass BS is This? Creationist Museum **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 15, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028 "2007-01-15T03:30:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/1 "2007-01-15T03:30:07Z")
[Link](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070114/lf_nm/usa_religion_museum_dc_1), what kind of fucking moron so-called Christian puts this shit together? Fucking, fucking assholes. Go to school, you’re an embarrassment to your religion. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/2 "2007-01-15T03:37:52Z")
I think they watched too much _Flintstones._ ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/3 "2007-01-15T03:49:25Z")
One phrase I like from the article-- “Biblically correct”. If only it could pick up the same derisive connotation as “politically correct”. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/4 "2007-01-15T03:56:57Z")
Wow. That really is quite sad. Still, this: > [@](#): > > The museum has hired extra security and explosives-sniffing dogs to counter anonymous threats of damage to the building. “We’ve had some opposition,” Looy said. bothers me almost as much. Why the hell would you threaten an institution like this? What possible threat could they pose to anyone with two brain cells to rub together? ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/5 "2007-01-15T04:01:54Z")
Furthermore, how in sweet christ did they raise **$27 MILLION** to put this shiite together? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/6 "2007-01-15T04:07:48Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Furthermore, how in sweet christ did they raise **$27 MILLION** to put this shiite together? [/QUOTE] Well who _else_ do you think the dinosaurs willed their money to? ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/7 "2007-01-15T04:26:47Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] [Link](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070114/lf_nm/usa_religion_museum_dc_1), what kind of fucking moron so-called Christian puts this shit together? Fucking, fucking assholes. Go to school, you’re an embarrassment to your religion. [/QUOTE] How does this (silly) museum make them “fucking, fucking assholes”? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/8 "2007-01-15T04:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Well who _else_ do you think the dinosaurs willed their money to? [/QUOTE] Dammit, now there’s dinosaur milk all over my keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/9 "2007-01-15T04:48:23Z")
[QUOTE=Lama Pacos] One phrase I like from the article-- “Biblically correct”. If only it could pick up the same derisive connotation as “politically correct”. [/QUOTE] Gimme time and I’ll see what I can do. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/10 "2007-01-15T05:09:11Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] How does this (silly) museum make them “fucking, fucking assholes”? [/QUOTE] They’re liars for one thing. They’re out to fleece naive, but often decent people for another. They’re toxic to the culture for another. There’s a difference between the Jesus Horse purveyors like Ham and Hovind and Behe and Dembski and the marks they sell this crap to. Most people who believe this junk and buy their books and go to their “lectures,” and will go to this “museum” are mostly just ignorant, scientifically illiterate, religious (not a bad thing) and vulnerable to exploitation. The assholes who pimp this twaddle actually KNOW what bullshit it is. They KNOW they’re lying and they do it anyway, not for any sincere religious reasons but just to make money. The Creationism industry is every bit as much a cynical con as faith-healing. The worst part is the damage they do to the culture, not just by poilticizing it but by literally demonizing science. ---
**Author:** ![Deaf\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Deaf\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deaf_Geek)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/11 "2007-01-15T05:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > how the earth, animals, dinosaurs and humans were created in a six-day period about 6,000 years ago Ah yes…these are the King James Only types…they apparently got the figure from adding together the ages of the Bibilcal patriarchs. These are Biblcal literatists to the extreme! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/12 "2007-01-15T05:52:41Z")
Earlier threads on this museum include [Museum exhibit to show dinosaurs and man co-existing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=294841) [What would you have said to creation museum guy?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=372512) [The Creationists ride again - on Jesus Horses](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382027) (Plenty of snide comments for all 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/13 "2007-01-15T08:07:01Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Furthermore, how in sweet christ did they raise **$27 MILLION** to put this shiite together? [/QUOTE] Because these beliefs are about ten thousand times more popular than the Liberal Christians at the SDMB want everybody to believe they are. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/14 "2007-01-15T08:11:57Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Because these beliefs are about ten thousand times more popular than the Liberal Christians at the SDMB want everybody to believe they are. [/QUOTE] Have you considered the effect of compound interest? ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/15 "2007-01-15T08:47:58Z")
I wish them all the success the last Creationist theme-park guy had. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/16 "2007-01-15T09:03:35Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] The worst part is the damage they do to the culture, not just by poilticizing it but by literally demonizing science. [/QUOTE] I agree, but ersatz defenders of science do a fine job of that by themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/17 "2007-01-15T09:32:25Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Furthermore, how in sweet christ did they raise **$27 MILLION** to put this shiite together? [/QUOTE] Because the majority of Americans are creationists. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/18 "2007-01-15T10:55:15Z")
“…museum spokesman and vice-president Mark Looy…” Those disrespectful fuckers! Leaving the ‘n’ out of his name! ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/19 "2007-01-15T11:32:25Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Because the majority of Americans are creationists. [/QUOTE] Don’t think that was the answer **Operation Ripper** was looking for. > [@From the OP's link](#): > > The $27 million project, which also includes a planetarium, a special-effects theater, nature trails and a small lake, is privately funded by people who believe the Bible’s first book, Genesis, is literally true. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028/20 "2007-01-15T13:15:08Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Furthermore, how in sweet christ did they raise **$27 MILLION** to put this shiite together? [/QUOTE] Why do shiites hate America? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-punk-ass-bs-is-this-creationist-museum/388028.md?page=2)