The Creation Museum

I've known about this for a while now, but it just opened. Oh boy. The only place where psychotics can say that, to quote SNL, "Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church" without being ridiculed. They expect, according to the New York Times, 250,000 visitors in the first year, one fourth of the amount of minions Pat Robertson claims he has.

One of the final strongholds of legitimized fantasy. To those of us who buy Charles Darwin (I have both The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man), this is an amazing thing. What they really seek to do is not simply to "challenge" Darwinism, but to undermine the integrity of the scientific process. Think about it, if one could get a man in a white coat to say anything, and for people to believe him, then he has power. James Dobson isn't a legitimate psychologist, but people believe what he says. Or the televangelists of the 80s-present? They completely obliterated Christianity.

They believe that if they can undermine intellectual integrity, they can replace them with their own fantasies and establish them as legitimate (all challenges to legitimacy would be obliterated). Part of the strategy is to have bills passed or shot down, extensive special interest lobbying, and defaming books and authors that express conflicting views with outrageous or ad homenim claims, similar to the Scientology strategy.

The Creation Museum needs to be swiftly attacked and debunked by the intellectual community.