Having actually visited the Creation Museum now, I feel like I can finally really say something about it.  Then again, it’s not just me who has something to say; I think the 21 members who went felt a mixture of emotions during and afterward, ranging from amusement, anger, and disappointment.

I think I’ve rarely encountered a more bizarre, elaborate display of pseudoscience than the Creation Museum.  The worst part about it is not its patently absurd claims that dinosaurs and humans lived together, nor that the Earth is 6,000 years old.  The most disturbing part is not that it ignores the achievements of science over the last several centuries, nor the overwhelming evidence for evolution.  It’s that the museum does all these under the guise of science, and the supposition that the museum’s creators and sponsors arrived at these notions using the scientific method.

If only children weren’t so vulnerable and susceptible to being lied to—and there were many children there, brought by their own parents, it seemed, as often as they were there through their Sunday school.

On the way out, a staff member directing traffic in the car park asked me what I thought.  I told him it was ‘interesting,’ a phrase I would also use when asked the same question by a patron at a nearby Waffle House.  He said, ‘it’s quite a unique place.’

‘Yes,’ I said.  ’Fortunately.’

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