Welcome to the Creation Museum – prepare to believe. Or not.
From an article in The Economist:
The Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky, on May 28th. Here impressionable youngsters can watch awesome animatronic dinosaurs interacting with primitive humans, just as Genesis implies they did, shortly after the beginning of time one Monday morning in 4004 BC.
The museum’s aim is to teach visitors how to answer attacks on the Bible’s authority in geology, biology and so on, while providing a “family-friendly experience”.
I guess it’s like Jurassic Park: Nice dinosaurs, shame about the rest.
It is scary indeed.
But that last sentence I don’t really like all that much. Perhaps the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park were “nice” – but it was not a nice thing to do to lie about the size of the velociraptor in the films:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vraptor-scale.png
Velociraptors were beagle-sized! If they had to use a dromaeosaurid, was it so hard to not just use a deinonychus or a utahraptor instead? I wouldn’t expect accuracy from a bible museum, so if they screw up, it’s a minor detail. But Hollywood!
everything is the same
@ US: It is an outrage! Spielberg, what have you done?! Hollywood taking liberties with the truth, what is the world coming to?
@ alef: The same as what? I don’t get it.
@LW @#2: Spambot, mayhaps?
Couldhaps.