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The OrganizationMay 25, 2007 12:18 pm

This, ladies and gentlemen, defines a group of things the CEO mentally classifies as “some crazy shit“. Wow:

Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs
PETERSBURG, Ky. — The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could be like any other natural history museum, luring families with the promise of immense fossils and dinosaur adventures. But step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus munches on leaves a few yards away. . .

For here at the $27 million Creation Museum, which opens on May 28 (just a short drive from the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport), this pastoral scene is a glimpse of the world just after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in which dinosaurs are still apparently as herbivorous as humans, and all are enjoying a little calm in the days after the fall. It also serves as a vivid introduction to the sheer weirdness and daring of this museum created by the Answers in Genesis ministry that combines displays of extraordinary nautilus shell fossils and biblical tableaus, celebrations of natural wonders and allusions to human sin. Evolution gets its continual comeuppance, while biblical revelations are treated as gospel.

The CEO is irritated. 10:32 am

Last night while making dinner (a panko encrusted salmon filet), a disturbing thought occurred to me: the Japanese are way ahead of us in bread crumb technology. When did this happen? Has it always been like this, or did they open up a bread crumb gap at some time in the recent past? I think I’ll write a letter to the president. And don’t get me started on the muffin and toast inequalities we’ve suffered under for so long with England and France.