Ken Ham’s Creation Museum is holding its grand opening on Memorial Day — 28 May 2007 — amid much hoopla, hype and general stupidity on the part of dozens of gullible “journalists” and tens of thousands of slack-jawed ignorami.
As part of the festivities, PZ suggested putting together an anti-Ken blogabration. My entry follows the fold (it’s a cartoon).
Ken Ham truly does say, in all seriousness, that humans and dinosaurs once co-existed. He also claims — again, in all seriousness — that animals such as lions and, presumably, allosaurs existed not on meat, but on a vegetarian diet … until the Earth was somehow corrupted, presumably by Satan.
It says quite a lot about Ham and his followers that they find a 4.5-billion-year-old Earth wildly implausible next to the notion of a tyrannosaur calmly grazing in a meadow.
UPDATE: PZ posted the carnival — check it out!
Here’s the toon. Enjoy.
Here’s the toon as a PDF. Use as you see fit, but do keep the attribution intact. Thanks. Ham Boned (PDF, 200 KB)
These people think that “The Flintstones” was a historical documentary.
Good stuff!
I like xkcd’s take on it:
http://xkcd.com/c154.html
- JS
Although it’s not obvious from the cartoon, people are actually a lot smarter than dinosaurs ever were. As the boy pointed out, T. Rex and his kin were huge, and would likely have been seen (or at least heard) from afar, giving humans time to flee, hide, organize a defense, or some combination of those.
Separately from that, I have a question about what did the artist means by the title of what the father is reading, DI-NO. Is he trying to make the ludicrous claim that Ken Ham denies the reality of dinosaurs, (”No dinos”)? Or is he making a subtle presentation of the gospel, that those who trust in Jesus have eternal life, (”Die? No!”)?
Probably true — but of course humans and dinosaurs were separated from one another by about 65 million years of time.
The “title” on the book was mostly meant to be an oblique reference to the silly work of fantasy Evolution? The Fossils Say NO! Ham doesn’t deny the existence of dinosaurs, of course, but the ridiculous lengths he’s willing to go to in order to cram them into his just-so Adam/Eve fairy tale amounts to denialism of all the science surrounding paleontology — which to me is equivalent to denying the reality of dinosaurs.
When I comment on Jesus, I tend to make it pretty straightforward.