The Creation 'Museum'
By PZ MYERS, PHARYNGULA
Added: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:00:00 UTC
PZ & Secular Student Alliance's trip to the creation "museum."
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/the_creation_museum_1.php
Many more posts about it at Pharyngula:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
We visited the Creation "Museum" last Friday.
I'm careful to put the title in quotes, because it is not a museum in any respectable sense of the word. I knew this ahead of time; I had no expectation of any kind of credible presentation in this place, but what impressed me most is how far it failed to meet even my low hopes. They clearly want to ape a real museum, but they can't — their mission is the antithesis of open inquiry.
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There are many more stories about the trip around the web, please feel free to post links in the comments below.
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