The creation “museum” – another report

Here's how to understand the Creation Museum:

First, imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we're not talking just your average load of horseshit; no, we're talking colossal load of horsehit. An epic load of horseshit. The kind of load of horseshit that has accreted over decades and has developed its own sort of ecosystem, from the flyblown chunks at the perimeter, down into the heated and decomposing center, generating explosive levels of methane as bacteria feast merrily on vintage, liquified crap. This is a Herculean load of horseshit, friends, the likes of which has not been seen since the days of Augeas.(Your Creation Museum Report, John Scalzi)

The horseshit of which John Scalzi speaks is, of course, creationism. Read the whole report. It's very well done. I'll point out only one more thing:

To be clear, the "horseshit" I've been speaking of is not Christianity, it's creationism, which to my mind is a teleological quirk substantially unrelated to the grace one can achieve through Jesus Christ.

Scalzi is explicitly not attacking Christianity or religious belief. He's attacking a “museum” devoted to to the preposterous belief that the world is only 6,000 years old.

I can't resist pulling one more paragraph, but you really should read the whole thing:

It is what it is: An attractive and diverting repository for a massive load of horseshit. And, well, let's be realists: That load of horseshit's not going away anytime soon. Might as put it somewhere that it's out of everyone else's way. The Creation Museum manages that well enough.

Pharyngula pointed out the report. You can find a link to an earlier one here..