as i wrote then, it’s a disturbing and entertaining and then disturbing again movie.
one of the things in the movie that boggled my mind was the evangelical proposition that the earth is 6,000 years old and that humans and dinosaurs co-existed.
i was left wondering: ‘does anyone REALLY believe this?’
and then i read about:
a museum for creationists, where dioramas show that humans and dinosaurs coexisted.
are these people insane or just delusional?
happy little dinosaurs being yoked to a plow by our human ancestors of 5,000 years ago?
i mean, really?
how do millions of americans hold on to an arbitrary myth(that the earth was created 6,000 years ago, in 6 days, and that humans and dinosaurs coexisted)that flies in the face of every piece of available scientific research?
what sort of mental pathology leads someone to say: ‘ok, every scientist on the planet might say that the world is 5 billion years old and that it exists in a universe that is 15 billion years old and the dinosaurs walked the earth millions of years before humans were even a glint in some randy lemur’s eye,
but i’m not going to believe it.’
?
again, really?
putting these nutbags in such esteemed company as the flat earth society and the geniuses of the middle ages who believed that the sun revolved around the earth.
or maybe these delusional evangelicals also believe that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth, too?
i mean, if you’re going to be utterly delusional why stop at one happy delusion, why not have fun with all of them?
and, going back a bit, a $27,000,000 museum for creationists?
this just boggles my mind.
let’s just do a little biblical scholarship, ok?
so, jesus mentioned the earth being 6,000 years old how many times?
oh, as many times as he mentioned homosexuality.
that would be…none? no times? never not once?
let’s check…yup. never.
so it’s just awesome that the evangelicals are doing good christian things like building museums to bad science, etc.
i guess if a homeless person showed up at the museum they could always let him sleep under the diorama of a dinosaur pulling a plow.
moby