Magic man done it.

[urbpan]

Well, truth be told, I didn't have any plans to visit Kentucky, but it just backed up behind Kansas and Mississippi in the "last states to visit--shortly after I die, maybe" competition. Hoo doggy! We're so proud of our dogmatic ignorance that we erected a museum to it!

Also, my 3:00 alarm just went off, and my camera is at home somewhere.

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[bezigebij.livejournal.com]

When the Gallup Poll asked people about their views on the subject last March, 47 percent of Americans polled said that God created humans pretty much in their present form some time in the last 10,000 years. That belief was strongest among those with less education, regular churchgoers, people 65 and older, and Republicans.

This scares me...47%!!!

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

I know it's a consequence of having just finished _Mountains Beyond Mountains_, but I've got to wonder how many cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis that $27 million could have cured. But then, it's not like Jesus said anything about serving the poor, the sick, or the imprisoned. He was pretty clear that his first priority was the secular humanist conspiracy to decieve us into beliving men were descended from monkeys.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

holy crap, there are going to be some really confused anthropologists in 2,000 years.

[iheartoothecae.livejournal.com]

Next time I got to Louisville I'm grabbing the giant baseball bat outside the Louisville Slugger museum and beating that anti-evolution museum to smithereens.

But not before I steal one of those animatronic dinosaurs to put in my living room.

[pipu.livejournal.com]

WTF? The best part:

It shows models of children leaving a church where the minister believes in evolution. Soon the girl is on the phone to Planned Parenthood, while the boy cruises the Internet for pornography sites.

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Flaming poop on a stick! WTH is wrong with people?!

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

A Christian-based organization admits that fossils may have once been real bones?? Crap!

All this time I believed there really *was* a shadowy organization that employed millions of Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, atheist and sexually perverted artists throughout the world to make fake dinosaur bones and hide them so "scientists" could find them.
I was really hoping those guys would give me a job. It sounds exactly like the theater industry, except with money.

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

Also:
May I steal this icon, sir?
Thanks, Interfecta

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

your camera in on the chair in the kitchen, btw.

[protoblast.livejournal.com]

but it just backed up behind Kansas and Mississippi in the "last states to visit--shortly after I die, maybe" competition.

Kansas U. is home, surprisingly, to one of my favorite natural history museums (http://nhm.ku.edu/). Sure they haven't changed most of the exhibits in 30 years and the bee colony keeps dying, but the state has some great limestone beds with all sorts of extinct critters in them and the museum takes full advantage. Plus, where else can you see the bedraggled and stuffed pelt of Commanche (http://nhm.ku.edu/Hdocs/Comanche.html), the only survivor of Custer's escapades at the Little Bighorn? It's a classic of this type of museum: small, cramped, dusty, staffed by eager advocates of evolution and the environment, full of neat things, and more than a little weird. I try to always spend a lot of money in the gift shop on the way out.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

And to quote one of my patron saints, "And Jesus pulled the thorn from the brontosaurus's paw, and the brontosaurus became His friend." (I've been keeping tabs on this one for a while, and I honestly give it a year before it implodes. Speaking as someone who's lived in "the buckle of the Bible Belt" for nearly three decades and who regularly passes by Carl Baugh's Creation Evidence Museum on the way to Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, they'll never get enough money from revenues to keep going for long. If there's one thing I know for certain, it's that most fundamentalists are so cheap that they use both sides of the toilet paper, so the usual gift shop revenues are going to be rather short. I expect the same thing of the creationists who bought up the concrete dinosaurs out in Cabezon, California: they're hyping up how they're using dinosaurs as "missionary lizards", but I give that crowd another year before they run out of cash and have to sell the dinosaurs to another buyer.)

[broken-angel.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I think I just threw up in mouth a little.

[droserary.livejournal.com]

Forgive the state for its backwards zealots and biggots. It really is a beautiful place. So is Tennessee, even though Bryan College in Dayton is the home fo the Center for Origins Research (*rolls eyes*). Don't forget Dr. Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, still teaches at Lehigh University of all places in Pennsylvania, a state I happen to highly respect.

I figure there will always be moronic legislation, moronic legislators, and dogmatic ignorance. No reason not to visit a state, though :-) I plan to get all 50, even if Alaska keeps pushing for opening the ANWR for oil drilling.

[greenminions.livejournal.com]

I'm glad this article at least mentions how close it is to metro Cincinnati. Other articles I've read portray it as being in the middle of no where, which it is not.

I live in Cincinnati btw.

[paying-w-mysoul.livejournal.com]

Aaaahahahahahaha. Ha.
I'm having a hard time believing this isn't a joke.

[(Anonymous)]

Aaaahahahahahaha. Ha.
I'm having a hard time believing this isn't a joke.