Grand Canyon? Noah's flood

Click here for an extensive flickr slideshow, outlining a trip to the creation museum. Your intrepid explorers manage to photograph a fair bit of the accompanying text, so it gives a fascinating glimpse into the museum policy.

There are too many examples of straight-out of idiocy to start listing them here, I suggest you take a couple of deep calming breaths and take a look for yourself.

When the people behind this project started out on their 'the Bible is literal truth' jaunt they can't have imagined the kind of insane convoluted positions they'd need to take to make their ideas hang together... carnivores didn't exist before Adam's sin apparently.

This 'museum' is an insult. Not to rational atheists - I think we kinda had their number from the start. This 'museum' is an insult to decent god-fearing people who have allowed their faith to be hijacked by morons, pimps and hustlers. christians who allow it to proselytize in this manner and turn a blind eye should be ashamed of themselves.

I want to hear the people who profess to be rational normal christian folk lobbying their pastors, priests, senators and MP's to say "this isn't us. This is downright wrong, and we're not gonna stand for it" so far, the silence has been deafening.

Can this week get any better?

Evangelist Kent Hovind arrested on federal charges

If you're not convinced this is good news watch this

There's another star in heaven tonight

Jerry, taken so soon, we hardly knew yee...

"Textbooks are Soviet propaganda."

"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions."

"I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush."

"Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America."

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

And of course everybody's favourite...

"I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians, ... the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this [terrorist attack: 9/11] happen." - Jerry Falwell, 700 Club, Sept 13, 2001

EDIT: Christopher Hitchens eulogy

The award for unintentional irony...

From the BBC Website:

Pope Benedict XVI has criticised "authoritarian governments" in Latin America, in a speech at the end of his five-day tour of Brazil.

He condemned the growing gap between rich and poor, blaming both Marxism and capitalism for the region's problems.

In his opening address to the two-week bishops' conference, the Pope attacked unnamed governments in Latin America that he said were "wedded to old-fashioned ideologies which do not correspond to the Christian vision of man and society".

He warned that the worsening gap between rich and poor was causing a loss of dignity through drugs, alcohol "and deceptive illusions of happiness".

I considered trying to write something pithy or satirical about the head of the Roman Catholic church decrying the gap between rich and poor and old-fashioned ideologies, but I just gave up. I mean how do you lampoon that?