Report on "The Flintstones Museum"

Sadly Kentucky is home to the "Creationist museum". Where psuedo-science rules, Fred and Barney and our ancestors of course rode dinosaurs(no mention of Dino). I've seen a few of their brochures, very slick. Daniel Phelps the President of the Kentucky Paleontological Society has a nice write up here:

There are a few valid reasons to see the Anti-Museum. If you go, try to make the most of things by taking lots of photos you can use to show others. Atone for your sins by spending a greater amount of money at a real natural history museum. Here is my list of reasons to actually go:

Shock value: Bring colleagues that don't think creationism is a problem to see this. Note the look on their face when they realize that not only do people believe this, but that they have spent almost $30 million dollars on the nonsense.

This is what creationists really believe: Creation "scientists" usually only attack evolution without stating their alternative. If you debate creationists and are sick of them only presenting misguided attacks on evolution, then you can visit the Anti-Museum and have a record of what the creationists actually believe. Use the information found at the museum to put them on the defensive about the Ark and the Flood and vegetarian velociraptors.

You have a perverse or unusual sense of humor: Although a critic of creationism, I wanted to go to the place from the moment I realized it would someday open. I feel almost guilty about this; it is the same emotion one has when one slows down to watch a gory automobile wreck. I don't know why the creationist museum is comical, but it is, and on a number of levels. Perhaps we should not analyze this too much. E. B. White (1954) once said, "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." But then maybe we should…

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