Friday Funny Video: Night at the Creationist Museum

Posted by Siamang on: 06.08.2007 /

Wrapping up a couple weeks of Creation Museum stories with a good laugh.

Which is what I need after this story:

“44% of Americans think that evolution is probably or definitely false.”

Anyway I need a laugh now to keep from crying.

Thanks to Bernie for this link.

6 Responses to "Friday Funny Video: Night at the Creationist Museum"

  • Comment by: literaghost

    1 06/8/07 2:21 PM | Comment Link |

    (Off-topic, but not sure where else to put this where anyone’d actually read it:)

    The Nation’s put up an article about “The New Atheists” - Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, etc. It’s here. Has anyone else heard of or read it yet? Personally, I think it’s pretty well-thought-out.

    - L. W. [Finally getting around to de-lurking myself]

  • Comment by: Brendon Lake

    2 06/8/07 3:13 PM | Comment Link |

    Personally, I think scientists have been on and on and on about evolution, basically taking it for granted as fact, when there a lot of holes.

    Didn’t Darwin not belive in his own theory in the end, well that’s what I heard.

  • Comment by: David H

    3 06/8/07 4:00 PM | Comment Link |

    Loved the line: “They let a Jew in the creation museum.”

  • Comment by: Siamang

    4 06/8/07 4:12 PM | Comment Link |

    Great link. Thanks!

    From that article:

    In the past generation in the United States, atheists, agnostics and secular humanists have been a timid minority–almost voiceless, often on the defensive, routinely derided, both warned against and ignored.

    As Susan Jacoby pointed out in her book Freethinkers, it is symptomatic of the situation that the most dramatic presidential address in generations took place in the National Cathedral three days after September 11, 2001, so filled with religious language that it sounded like a sermon. It was delivered by a President flanked by Jewish, Muslim and Christian representatives, a model of religious inclusiveness, without anyone standing alongside them representing the tens of millions of nonreligious Americans. At this most important collective moment in our recent history, it was as if they did not exist.

    As evidence of that timidity, I didn’t notice that or note that it was strange at all until it was pointed out in this context. How self-denying is atheism that I EXPECT my beliefs to be ignored?

    What atheists need is self-respect enough to speak up.

  • Comment by: Siamang

    5 06/8/07 4:13 PM | Comment Link |

    Brendon, Darwin did believe wholeheartedly in his discovery, until the very end.

    There was a famous hoax that he didn’t. I guess the hoax is still getting circulated.

  • Comment by: Bernie of FreeGoodNews.com

    6 06/13/07 2:58 PM | Comment Link |

    Here’s some info on the rumor that Darwin converted to Christianity on his deathbed:

    http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/darwin.htm