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And Lo, the T-Rex Did Deliver God’s Wrath!
By Michael Weiss / May 24, 2007
This could be a photo of a maintenance worker at the Museum of Natural History, touching up the scenery of a Utahraptor exhibit. Actually, it's a still-life from the soon-to-open Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky — sort of a Universal Studios for the willfully ignornant and purblind adherents of Genesis.
Age of Earth? 6,000 years.
Grand Canyon origin? Noah's flood
Greatest danger outside the Garden of Eden? Dinosaurs.
Institutional stupidity furnished with vivid detail and animatronics? $27 million.
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Yeah, and for the amount Americans spend on Chesterfields or lotto tix or Shrek Happy Meals, we could (insert benevolent gesture here).
Way to cite a random comparison for no discernible reason whatever…
Reading this prompted a thought experiment: the amount of money awarded to 21st century megahero Mukhtaran Mai after she triumphed in the courts over her rapists was somewhere in the vicinity of $8,000.  Later an article in the New York times raised around $160,000. She used the money to build two primary schools in Meerwala, a hospital and a womens' crisis center. That means that for the cost of the Creation Musem, 112 villages where lack of education creates the conditions for tribal gang rape could undergo the same or at least maybe a similar transformation. Kinda makes you contemplate the costs of junk science beyond just the 27 mil.
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