3 Green Fish

If all is well with the world, you haven’t heard of the Creation Museum, an entire “museum” devoted to showing how the Earth is only 6,000 years old and how dinosaurs lived at the same time as man.

John Scalzi apparently lives near this bastion of holey-ness. And lo, it did come to pass that he agreed to go and view and report on the abomination if his readers would donate $250 or more, said funds to be donated in turn to Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. As it so happens, he was flooded with donations, to the tune of over $5 thousand. So he kinda had to go.

The result? A pictorial tour through the entire museum, 101 photos long, each one with amusing titles and commentary. It’s a simultaneously terrifying and hilarious experience, primarily in the form of the tortured logic and inconsistencies that are all that shore up the museum’s skewed concept of reality. To add icing to the cake, other people have commented on many of the photos, adding a bonus dose of snarkiness to something that deserves as much respect as a ham sandwich. Without the humorous remarks of Scalzi and others, these photos would be only scary, but the commentary exposes the unintentional self-satire that oozes from every hole in the museum’s so-called “logic.”

The photo album is well worth a viewing, and can be found on Flickr.

Also worth a read is Scalzi’s accompanying essay.

The Creation Museum itself? Not worth the high price of admission. But the photos are pretty funny.

[seen on Boing Boing]

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