deathofamind

My girlfriend and I noticed some sort of museum while we were driving around yesterday, so we decided to go check it out. The place was unreal! It's called "The Gallery of Creation: A Museum of Natural History". They had the ten commandments near the door. We went in, only to find that they charge $7 per person for admission. We weren't down with that... especially because the place was just a little dump. But we browsed around the gift shop, which had some museumishness to it (the larger things weren't for sale). It was interesting, to say the least... some of the items we saw:

--A very large rotating globe, above a quote from Genesis 1:1. It was rotating the right way.

--Underneath the globe, there were two fake life-sized pandas behind glass, with fake shrubbery for scenery. They had names.

--A sabre-tooth tiger skeleton.

--A fake dog.

--Dead preserved animals: a fox, a deer, a ram, and some birds.

--A "cactus skeleton", which I guess is the remains of a completely dried out cactus. I had never seen one before. It was cool.

--A full set of medieval-looking armor. I still can't figure out why it was there, unless it was from one of those rare cases in which God spontaneously decides to make a suit of armor.

There was one item which we both found very interesting - it was a cast of a Triceratops skull, with some information about the dinosaur. Okay, so I guess the people who set up this museum aren't totally fundamentalist. Not only did they have a dinosaur fossil, but they had a plaque with information about the once-living dinosaur (although they didn't mention -when- this dinosaur might have lived).

Overall, I thought the museum was a nice gesture. As much as I don't believe in God, I still share something in common with the museum people - an appreciation for nature. They call it "God's handiwork", and I call it science... but the sentiment is almost the same. Of course, I'd rather see nature in a different setting (i.e. live animals in their natural settings, instead of dead ones decapitated and mounted on walls). But I still think it's nice that they're acknowledging the beauty found in nature. They could have done a better job, but I guess it's the thought that counts.

I just thought it was interesting, and thought I'd share my story. Has anybody else here seen a place like this? Any stories to tell?

Coragyps

I haven't been to it yet, but there's a "museum" up the road in Crosbyton, Texas, that has "evidences" of insects and trilobites coexisting, as well as a fossilized human femur about five feet long. And the third-grade public school class from here got to go visit, but they failed to ask me to chaperone.
C'mon West Texas infidels! We need a field trip!

Kosmo

Five feet? Yikes. I wonder how big that specimen's, um, feet were.

Anyway, what is that supposed to show? Perhaps they found the fossil of Goliath?

acidphos

I have heard them claim to be "proof of the nephilim" (and thus proof of the bible) on more than one occasion

Coragyps

The display may need an additional plaque with Teri Garr's line from Young Frankenstein - "His Schwanzstuker would be ENORMOUS!"

omarsright

On this subject aome of you might find this ling interesting:
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/c...eum_onion.html