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Science, Schmience. We'll Make a Museum Anyway

June 11, 2007 RSS Feed Print

Look! Is that Fred and Wilma Flintstone cavorting with a robotic velociraptor? Oh, just kidding. It's actually Adam and Eve (of Bible fame)—and, no, you haven't stepped into a tribute to Hanna-Barbera but rather the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. An intrepid Daily Mississippian columnist ventured into the vast anti-evolution abyss (otherwise known as the Creation Museum's website) and reports how the newly opened, $27 million museum has been "embraced by evangelicals far and wide as their latest b*tch-slapping of evolution." More important, the writer also discovered that the Special Effects Theatre features vibrating seats,which "will titillate the puritanically neglected loins of visitors." —Alison Go

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