MONDAY, JULY 11, 2016
P.T. Barnum Would Really Be Proud

Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo says this afternoon at the Whistleblower Newswire, one of our readers called to complain that yesterday we forgot to connect the dots with Hurley the Historian’s item about the beginning of the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, where high school teacher John Scopes was being tried for teaching “evolution” in violation of state law, and we said to celebrate the occasion at the Creation Museum today, anybody by the name of Scopes will be allowed to enter free.

Obviously, The Blower forgot to mention something about the “Ark” in Williamstown, Kentucky (Wherever the hell that is)

The Ark opened to great fanfare last Friday and was the subject of many national news stories.  Formerly, the Creation Museum had the reputation as being the only museum in the world that had no genuine exhibits or artifacts, just models, but now it’s joined by the Ark, which is also supposed to be a museum. Kentucky over-taxed payers footed most of the bill too, with a reported $62 million in tax-supported loans.

Of special interest is the fact that the new Ark contains dinosaur replicas along with many other animal replicas (no real animals though, assumedly because of the problem with feeding them and the removal of tons of waste every day). The reason they have dinosaurs is that, because of the fossil record, it is hard to deny they existed, and since God created everything about 6,000 years ago, they had to have been on the Ark too. Men later hunted them to extinction, according to Ken Ham, the clever Australian who cooked up this farce, after being successful with the Creation Museum. The number of species of Dinosaurs that ever lived is estimated at between 5,000 and 10,000, so the thinking is that they must have left a few out, assuming that they needed at least two of each type, according to the Bible.

So, Kentucky is now far ahead of Tennessee in Bible Belt mythology and will probably remain there for a long time. If anyone is interested in going to see this monstrosity, admission is a staggering $40 a head, children $20. And if that doesn’t slow you down, they also want $10 more just to park.

Here’s another note for the “Young Earth” creationist folks. According to Answers in Genesis, the organization that runs both the Creation Museum and the Ark theme park, the exact date of creation was October 23, 4004 B.C. Some even have it more exactly at 9:30 A.M. but there’s no word about whether that was Eastern Standard Time or perhaps another time zone. Maybe they forgot to look on their cell phone.   Anyone who thinks Ken Ham, the head of Answer in Genesis, is stupid is dead wrong – he’s laughing all the way to the bank.