Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur

"The museum has all the scientific answers for creation, but they really want people to know that if you take the Bible as your starting place, you're probably going to be more successful in looking out at the world."
-- Ken Ham, the Australian-born science teacher and founder of The Creation Museum

According to Ken Ham, his new museum will bring everyone closer to God and solve all the confusion in the culture war about evolution versus creation.

After all, one of the scientific positions taken in the $26 million effort, described in a Toledo Blade article by David Yonke, is the common belief in the fundie set that the Earth is only 6,000 years old (rather than 4 billion years old), which also means that human beings were walking around with dinosaurs and were present on Noah's Ark.

The real issue here is that this is really about the culture war in the country; it's a reaction to science that conflicts with the bible and Ham and Co. want to take it back, taking people back into the Flat Earth Society. The current method of brainwashing in fundie churches and schools isn't working, so they have to create an entire hermetically sealed reality that will not challenge their fantasy world where "science" has a much different definition than the one we're used to.

How a person views creation and evolution sets the tone for how he or she views the world, Mr. Ham asserted.

..."There is a widening chasm between those who adhere to Christian morality - i.e., absolutes that are actually founded in the Bible - and those who adhere to moral relativism - i.e., everyone has a right to determine his or her rules for life," Mr. Ham said in an interview with The Blade.

"The more that generations are trained to disbelieve the Bible's account of origins, the more they will reject the rest of the Bible," he said. The teaching of evolution as fact, rather than as theory, has undermined the authority of the Bible and brought about the rise of secularization and moral chaos, Mr. Ham said. He also believes the rejection of the Bible as a moral compass has given rise to an array of cultural conflicts on issues such as abortion, divorce, homosexuality, and euthanasia.

The Creation Museum is designed to inspire Americans to accept the Bible as absolute authority and to halt the spread of secular humanism and moral relativism in society.

Where do you begin with all of this insane propaganda? In the Noah's Ark exhibit, for instance, it will show 12 animatronic characters hammering and sawing away while Noah shouts instructions to them. I'm sorry, how can someone take that ark story literally -- that must have been a big f*cking boat, and who did sh*t patrol with all that animal waste on board? There are so many holes in that story; these folks have to be sheeple of the highest order.

One of the goals of this museum, which Ham stated in an address to charter members (who forked up $149 for one-year memberships, $495 for five years ones, or $1,000 for a lifetime of fantasy science), is that he feels many visitors "will experience a spiritual conversion" after touring the Creation Museum.

Hat tip, Holly.