Well written blog, OP. Thanks for the virtual tour. I've never been to one of those museums so I appreciate hearing about it in such detail. Thanks again.

Great blog!! Too bad it's so long. Most people are too lazy to read more than 4 paragraphs. Its a very good description of what its like at that so-called "museum".

No explanation why only Caucasians go there though. Interesting observation.

Despite once being a creationist, I reckon it would be funny if it weren't so sad.

I hear this a lot from creationists: [from the blog]

The “creation orchard” theory says that God created different kinds of animals during Creation Week and after the flood,

They never explain this. "All the kinds of animals." It's pretty stupid though because a Grey hound and a Retriever are of the same "kind" but not Wolves. A retriever and a wolf are the same "kind" but not tiger. A Wolf and a Tiger are the same "kind" but not a Dolphin. A wolf and a dolphin are the same "kind" of animal but not a Gecko. A dolphin and a gecko are the same "kind" of animal but not a Roster - or if the "kind" is land animals then a gecko and a Roster are the same kind but not a dolphin.

That's not to bring plants or bacteria into the mix.

But then the creationist claim that no kind can become a completely different kind, but they can't even define what that means so can't honestly even try to explain that they can't turn into different "kinds".

And what's more, by what mechanism prevents this kind-change? They freely admit that things can adapt into breeds in a ludicrously short amount of time, yet somehow that variation stops at a particular threshold. Why? If things can vary, why only so much?

Originally posted by Welfhard

They never explain this. "All the kinds of animals." It's pretty stupid though because a Grey hound and a Retriever are of the same "kind" but not Wolves. A retriever and a wolf are the same "kind" but not tiger. A Wolf and a Tiger are the same "kind" but not a Dolphin. A wolf and a dolphin are the same "kind" of animal but not a Gecko. A dolphin and a gecko are the same "kind" of animal but not a Roster - or if the "kind" is land animals then a gecko and a Roster are the same kind but not a dolphin.

That's not to bring plants or bacteria into the mix.

But then the creationist claim that no kind can become a completely different kind, but they can't even define what that means so can't honestly even try to explain that they can't turn into different "kinds".

And what's more, by what mechanism prevents this kind-change? They freely admit that things can adapt into breeds in a ludicrously short amount of time, yet somehow that variation stops at a particular threshold. Why? If things can vary, why only so much?

The Creationists' explanation is called the "Creation Orchard" theory. After the Great Flood, there was pretty much a clean slate, with all animals being pretty much entirely wiped out, and all of the animals that were created BEFORE the flood were gone... except for one kind.

The “creation orchard” theory says that God created different kinds of animals during "Creation Week". After the flood, those animals that were "saved" evolved further into different diversified types of the same species, such as different kinds of dogs or different kinds of birds. It does not support the idea that dogs and birds could be a part of the same evolutionary ‘tree.’

Here is an example of how the Creation Orchard theory works: Let’s just take dogs for this example. God created dogs and in the 1500 years between Creation Week and Noah's flood, dogs evolved and diversified into a number of different kinds (or breeds.) However, Noah couldn’t take every single kind of dog into the ark, so he took only one kind. Let’s say, for the sake of this example, Noah took two toy poodles onto the ark—one male and one female. After the flood, the two poodles got off the ark and set off on their way into the sunset, and in the next 4500 years, they evolved into every single kind of dog we see today—from toy poodles to pit bulls and everything in between. We thought that was a lot of evolution for 4500 years—300 generations of dogs evolving into about 160 different kinds! That’s a completely new breed of dog every 2 generations or so! So that would mean that your grandmother's dog would have to be an entirely different breed from your dog.

Now things are clearer, huh?

Does this so-called Museum display the 6,500 OTHER creation myths from around the world, or just those two tired old fables of the Jews (Gen 1:1 to Gen 2:4a and Gen 2:4b to Gen 4:26) ?

There would have to be a fairly sizeable museum to house ALL the creation myths of the world....


Why do 'creation scientists' ALWAYS feel they have to revert back to the warped myths of illiterate desert semi nomads for their source material?

Surely there are OTHER creation stories/expalanations out there except YHWH and his xenophobic sexist racist 'chosen people' and his arrogant genocidal extermination programs?

I've said it a million times, if God is real along with creationalism, he is the laziest God ever. All that infinite God wisdom and instead of making a buch of diff animals, he makes a cat, a big cat, a big black cat, a brown cat, a brown cat with a main, a small cat with spots, a big cat with spots, etc, see where im going??? Make the one cat and make the 45 foot long crazy flying ipod shaped half mammal half reptile that sheds its skin 4 times a day and is a different color every time, then i'd be impressed!!!