Check out this disconcerting story about the $27 million, new Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky: Adam and Eve in the Land of Dinosaurs.
Some of my favorite exerpts:

Outside the museum scientists may assert that the universe is billions of years old, that fossils are the remains of animals living hundreds of millions of years ago, and that life’s diversity is the result of evolution by natural selection. But inside the museum the Earth is barely 6,000 years old, dinosaurs were created on the sixth day, and Jesus is the savior who will one day repair the trauma of man’s fall.
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Whether you are willing to grant the premises of this museum almost becomes irrelevant as you are drawn into its mixture of spectacle and narrative. Its 60,000 square feet of exhibits are often stunningly designed by Patrick Marsh, who, like the entire museum staff, declares adherence to the ministry’s views; he evidently also knows the lure of secular sensations, since he designed the “Jaws” and “King Kong” attractions at Universal Studios in Florida.

Ah, spectacle, where would religions be without you? To see the fucked-up and scary lows to which evangelical preachers will go in their use of spectacle to indoctrinate children with ass-backwards religious beliefs, watch the stellar movie, Jesus Camp.

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