Midwestern Knuckle-Draggers

I live in an intellectual backwater. It's called Kentucky. I love the people and the beautifully rolling hills. It's a wonderful place. But lately my state has become the laughingstock of the world.

We have been cursed with a monument to stupidity in the guise of a museum--the Creation Museum.

As of December 2008, however, I can laugh back at my knuckle-dragging neighbors in Ohio. The Cincinnati Zoo tried to team up with Kentucky's mockery of a museum in a absurd co-promotion called hyped as "Two Great Attractions, One Great Deal." Embarrassed by the backlash, the Zoo cancelled the promotion before it brought in any purchases to refund.

Here's what the the Creation Museum's founder, Ken Hamm, had to say about the bum's rush his museum received:

"It's a pity that intolerant people have pushed for our expulsion simply because of our Christian faith. Some of their comments... reveal great intolerance for anything having to do with Christianity."

Here's what really goes down:

People who respect science raised a fuss, not because of your Christian faith, Hamm. They object to your calling Creationism science and the chapel you've dedicated to your creation myth a museum. You've tried to elevate your belief system behind a mask of science. That's what's objectionable.

I tolerate Christianity. However, I find Christianity dressed up in cheap and flashy costume meant to look like science absurdly objectionable.

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