Is this the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard of?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070526/us_nm/usa_museum_dc

I can't believe there are people so ignorant in my country. I guess its true, religion does brainwash you. And I'm not one of those secular people either. I believe in God and think spirituality is important but geez, these people are nuts!

Answer 1

LOL, yeah, that is pretty bad.

Answer 2

All I can do is laugh.

I read up to they are putting in an exhibit of Noah's Ark, and fell about laughing. Oh the embarrassment.
People are pretty nuts, if you consider that so many people believe the stories in that tabloid sold in the USA. The National Enquirer.
I used to stand in line at the supermarket with my American friends giggling at it, and I really thought it was a joke newspaper. I thought it was like Mad magazine.
That was a few years before I realised it was a 'real' newspaper and that people believed the stories in it, like the 'I gave birth to an alien' stories. Honestly, can't get how anyone can believe those, but they do.

Read the rest of it, and a couple of other articles, and that made me think that these right wing Christian fundamentalists
must have a lot of money. I mean loads of money, which could be put to better use, like helping Africans or the poor, homeless.
But no, they decide in their 'God guided us' wisdom that a Disney type park will be better spent money, than being giving and generous and caring. I'm tending to think that these people are not very good Christians, because they aren't doing very well at following Christ at all.
So much for them getting to heaven, being they are so rich and greedy, power hungry, liars.
I don't mean all Christians, no, no, no..I mean these idiots spending money on animatronics created by the same people who did King King and Jaws at Universal Studios.
What I want to know is where will the profits of this museum be going?

Answer 3

I bet the scientific community is getting a real hoot out of this. Anyone who claims to be a scientist who is also affiliated with this joke will undoubtedly have their credentials canceled. Interviews I've heard with some scientists indicate they try to use scientific methods to justify religious beliefs here at this museum. That's like trying to use science to explain the existence of the Tooth Fairy. It just can't be done. Not legitimately anyway. Aside from that, it's also patently hypocritical. People here in America wonder why foreigners ridicule us and our current crop of so-called leaders. Now they have their answer. It sure is telling that the country which claims to be the smartest, the most progressive and the most knowledgeable should also be the one which actually harbors the largest percentage of numbskulls in their population. But then, we have the numbskull-in-chief allegedly leading the country, so I guess this latest development should be no more surprising an indication of the general ignorance of our population.

Answer 4

I think what you should find as more worrying is that the country that styles itself as the defender of democracy, truth and the American way has a sizable chunk of the population that believe this rubbish.
There's no need to worry about politicians saying they don't believe in evolution.
Politicians will say anything to get elected, and if the voting public are Creationist nuts with a literal interpretation of the bible they'll suddenly have never believed the Darwinian 'lies.'

Answer 5

i wager the most ridiculous element i have heard is both that creation is by some potential supported with the help of technology or that evolution isn't supported with the help of technology. the subsequent maximum ridiculous issues are the "quote mining" or made up memories like "Darwin recanted on his demise mattress" (as if this may change what his artwork confirmed), or "My uncle's cousin had a pig/cow/horse bone C14 examined and it confirmed it extremely is become a million years previous". After those 2, i imagine the most ridiculous are the glaring hoaxes like the human and dinosaur footprint alongside the Paluxy river or footprints of giants.

Answer 6

Like you, I also believe in God and I also wonder the same thing. If you've ever been around a flock of chickens you would have noticed that when one does something, they all do it. That's like our society and so help me, if it were reported that ****-roaches would give you a better sex life, Raid would be out of business overnight! That museum should be a Ripley's Believe it or Not!

Answer 7

You have a healthy perspective on your country. Mind you England is little better its just that you have more money with which to f*** up the world. As far as religion is concerned I think the only valid belief is a personal one that does not take its lead from ancient books or dogma. Churches of all kinds are corrupt. I don't buy life is an accident but all formal religions are too fairy storyish. Still America did give us Jimi Hendrix so you can't be all bad!

Answer 8

Well to be completely honest, Noah's Arc was complete bullshit. If you read any other documents written by other prophets, they all talk about a flood. Which at that time was not a world flood at all but infact the flooding of the Mediterranian Sea. Also to conlcude that he brought aboard 2 of evry creature (male and female) and then somehow put them all back into their natural habitats...makes you think. OK, OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say it happened but was seriously over-exagerated (just like the rest of the bible).

Answer 9

Yeah, Boobus Americanus is at it again.....

Don't you agree that the church could have used $27 million dollars to maybe, feed some hungry folks in our poorest areas or donated a little to Habitat for Humanity to help build homes for the homeless, or subsidize energy and utility bills for poor seniors on limited incomes?

As "they" say, what would Jesus do.......

Answer 10

There is nothing wrong with it. It does say it challenges the normal thinking. When analysed, most people believe that Darwinian rubbish but you don't have to be a believer in God to accept that the Bible did not exactly give dates for the creation of the earth nor the exact dates when Noah took off in his ark so what is what? The point they are making is that NO ONE really knows for sure what went on before and that is a good example of open mindedness. Go enjoy the show and remember that the biggest fool is one who believes in the unproven.

Answer 11

Jurassic Ark