More news from the Museum of Lies

I cannot feel proud of the glow of schadenfreude I felt when I read the headline, “Creation Museum’s ‘Adam’ shared sexual exploits online,” although my delight was heartfelt. The story is that Eric Linden, who plays Adam in a multimedia presentation at the new Creation Museum, owns a pornographic website called “Bedroom Acrobat.” And so it came to pass that Adam was cast out of the museum while the owners investigated.

According to blogger Media Czech at Blue Grass Roots, a field trip revealed that the museum offers the following sage advice to visitors: “Don’t think, just listen and believe.” Czech describes the our as “two hours of pure laughter.” I guess you have to laugh or you’ll cry.

Meanwhile, over at Ars Technica, Jonathan M. Gitlin reports on a similar field-trip to the “museum.” Gitlin covers much the same route as Media Czech — I guess it’s not that big a museum despite its 60,000 square feet — but goes into less detail about the numerous absurdities involved in taking the bible as literal truth. Towards the end of his article Giflin reports that the founder of the museum, Australian Ken Ham, is being investigated by a former Chief Magistrate in his home country for deceptive conduct and other wrongdoings in relation to the Australian church organization he was once affiliated with. Ham is being sued by the Australian evangelical organization he helped to set up. The Brisbane-based Creation Ministries International has filed a lawsuit in Queensland’s Supreme Court against Mr Ham and his Kentucky-based Answers in Genesis ministry seeking damages and accusing him of deceptive conduct in his dealings with the Australian organization.

Ooh, more schadenfreude!

Even some Christians are concerned the the Museum of Lies makes Christians who don’t believe in evolution look stupid, as evidenced by this article by Michael Patrick Leahy, who also complains that the media tends to oversimplify the issues when discussing the intersection of religion and science.

And lastly, Defcon says “Thou Shalt Not Lie” and an unnamed scientist speaks up against the distortions perpetrated by the “museum” and in support of the pursuit of truth that science represents.