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A Message From Creation Museum's Mark Looy

Mark Looy of the Creation Museum visited our comments section to dispute another of our commentators’ accounts of the theories on display at the museum: Just about every claim Paul has made about our science in the Creation Museum is untrue, i.e., we don’t say what he says we say. And with some points, Paul [...]

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Crazy Theories In The Creation Museum

Paul visits Ken Ham’s creation museum and shares with us the top 7 baseless theories for which the museum did not even pretend to adduce evidence: Just visited with the family. Tickets for one day were more than an annual family pass to a real science museum. And we had to pay extra for the [...]

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Carnival Of The Godless #127 (The First With Hammer Juggling Camels)

Camels With Hammers is proud to host the 127th Carnival of the Godless! Starting us off is Winter Harvest’s Neosnowqueen delivering a really intense and personal post that you really must take the time to read and ponder in full: If there is one thing that I have learned as an introvert, it’s that you [...]

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Blaghag Gives Presentation On Her Creation Museum Trip

Last month we covered PZ Myers’ and the Secular Student Alliance’s tirp to Ken Ham’s Creation Museum quite extensively.  Now comes this video of Jennifer McCreight (aka the blogger “Blag Hag”, senior biology major at Purdue, and president of Purdue’s Society For Non-Theists) with a presentation she gave at Purdue giving the lowdown on her [...]

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A Creation Petting Zoo?

Keeping up with the amusement church theme found on the rest of the grounds, Profit Prophet Ham has a lovely little petting zoo, perhaps one of the two interactive exhibits available to catch the attention of children.

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Introducing Robert B

On August 7, 2009, PZ Myers and the Secular Student Alliance led a field trip of a few hundred atheists and other secularists through Ken Ham’s infamous Creation Museum, a “museum” dedicated to promulgating the idea that a certain reading of the Bible should guide scientific investigation and understanding. Past Camels With Hammers coverage of [...]

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Camels With Blaghags

Couldn’t pass up the opportunity to post this photo of our favorite animal with one of our favorite bloggers: Be sure to catch each installment of BlagHag’s funny, depressing, informative, and educational report on her trip the creation museum by following these links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, [...]

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A Christian In Atheist Shoes

Via Prometheus Unbound comes a post from a Christian who attended the Creation “Museum” as part of the Atheist tour group. He was appalled by how they were treated by other Christians: There were hateful glances, exaggerated perceptions, waxing surveillance by security, and anxious but strong ‘amens’ accompanying a lecture on “The Ultimate Proof of [...]

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Same Facts Different Views?

Is the difference between a creationist and an evolutionist just a choice of interpretive frameworks to apply to the same facts?  Is the problem only their disagreement in “presuppositions?”  PZ Myers explains why this isn’t so as part of his report on his trip to the Creation “Museum” which discusses the sign pictured below with Blaghag:  This is their [...]

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Video From Secularist Field Trip To Creation Museum

If you have not already, see Camels With Hammers‘ coverage of yesterday morning’s creation museum twitter feed here.  For yesterday afternoon’s flood of photos, see this thread. Here’s frightening video of a Creation “Museum” dinosaur.  You can tell it’s impressive by the way one of the women surrenders to prolonged, uncontrolled yawning halfway through: Below [...]

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Are American Christians Really That Easily Offended?

From an article by the American Institute of Physics about yesterday’s Creation Museum field trip led by PZ Myers: William Watkin, a chemist living in Indiana, challenged one exhibit’s suggestion that the Grand Canyon could have been carved in hours by a process similar to how volcanic mudslides can rapidly create canyons in softer rocks. [...]

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BlagHag Checks In

Jennifer has her own photos of the Creation Museum trip up and they’re terrific, here’s a clue about what she learned today: For the morning photos and commentary from the whole group tweeting see here if you haven’t already and for the fuller, clearer afternoon set of photos go here.

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Creation Museum Highlight Tweets 1:30-6:30pm

Earlier today I liveblogged the highlights of the first 5 hours of Creation Museum discussion from the official twitter feed of PZ Myers and the Secular Student Alliance Trip (#Creozerg). Click here for those highlights. Now this thread features the rest of the major tweeting from the afternoon, picking up where I left off with [...]

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PZ Myers Atop Triceratops

Riding high in the saddle just like Adam did 6,000 years ago is shamed former-evolutionist PZ Myers after he learned the truth of creationism from his tour of Ken Ham’s museum today:

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Liveblogging The Creation Museum Tour Twitter Feed Highlights

Camels With Hammers pares down the first 5 hours of the twitter feed of visitors to the Creation Museum and offers you the highlights.  Start reading from the bottom of the thread for chronological flow and then join the real time discussion at #cregozerg.  Once you’ve read this thread be sure to check out my [...]

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The Coming Clash At The Creationist Museum

On August 7, biologist, anti-creationist, activist atheist and blogger-extraordinaire PZ Myers will be headlining a massive convergence of secular evolutionist atheists (including a large contingent from the Secular Student Alliance) upon Ken Ham’s infamous “Creation Museum”. Myers and the Secular Student Alliance have been promoting participation in the big visit for weeks and yesterday, Myers [...]

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