The Creation Museum

This shit makes me laugh. The article is from Salon, but you can also see the website for the museum here. It's basically a Natural History Museum for bible freaks, and I'm sorry, but I really do mean Bible Freaks. During the description of the museum, a few interviews with the visitors are had:

Inside the Garden of Eden, Nancy Senai, who is visiting from Lansing, Mich., tells me, "It feels pretty nice to have something that is for God and about God, instead of all the evolution in other places." I ask her if she thinks the history presented here is true. "God said it clearly, and I believe it the way he said it," she says. "Everything else is uncertain."

God said it clearly? Really? Have you read the Bible? Are you aware of how it came to be? There is anything but clarity. We're talking about a historical scripture that was first written without vowels in an ancient language by an unknown author. I should also stress it was WRITTEN. The Bible is not an audio book recorded by God, so he didn't SAY anything. PEOPLE WROTE WORDS ON A PAGE. But this last quote takes the cake for me:

Inside the Confusion exhibit, I strike up a conversation with Tim Shaw, a high school student visiting from Florida. "I don't care how long it took to make the Grand Canyon," he tells me. "It's not how old it is that matters to me. What matters is being right with God. Darwin's theory has no God. It can't be right. I don't know if this story is truer than Darwin's theory, but I do know it's better."

Okay that there's a confusion exhibit really makes me want to go to this thing. But there are two huge misconceptions going on here. First, who ever claimed Darwin was a godless man. Darwin was never an atheist. He merely disbelieved some of the histories in the Bible because well history negates some of them. Darwin always believed in some element of God, and in his early life strived for a position in the Clergy. To add to that point, Darwinism and Evolution do not negate the existence of God in any way. It merely suggests that given evidence proves that life as we know it was probably evolved using a very simple pattern of necessary mutation during reproduction. You don't have to believe that God wasn't there to believe in it, and you don't have to believe that the Bible is wrong either. The Bible is a work of scriptural importance. That doesn't make it necessary to be historically accurate. What gives the Bible validity is its ability to last throughout the years as a definitive guidebook for two major religions(OT only that is). But the quote answers any confusion here. It doesn't matter to fundies what the truth is. "I don't know if this story is truer than Darwin's theory, but I do know it's better." Better because someone told you it was? Because it feels easier to accept? I don't really know, but it really explains why I think these folks are so batty.