The “Creation Museum” opens this weekend near Cincinnati, a multi-million-dollar monument to ignorance and superstition. It’s designed to do just one thing: spread lies and ignorance to as many people as possible.
Over at Pharyngula, PZ Myers has collected a huge list of posts from around the blogosphere, reacting to this travesty. Go read the whole thing. I agree with PZ: the last entry is the saddest…
Does the opposition to creationism matter? Yes, it does. Answers in Genesis is a predatory organization: it thrives on ignorance, and it misinforms and misleads and lies specifically to inculcate the kind of gullibility and fear and desperation that will send more donations to its coffers.
It’s not just children who are scammed. Read my father knew no science for an example of what Ken Ham really feeds on.He needed more care, himself, but there was no money left to pay for a homemaker, or even a cleaning woman. I went out weekly and did as much as I could; church people mended his clothes and brought food, neighbours checked on him. But there was always a shortfall.
When he died, at 92, and I picked up the reins of his finances, I found that month’s bill from AIG: $70. For DVDs. To give away, of course; Dad had no TV, no DVD player, no video player: he was almost blind.
That’s what the museum is all about: fleecing the poor, the weak, the ignorant, the confused.
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