FIELD TRIP!

I've been thinking about what I might do when I go to Ohio to visit my future in-laws. We've actually got some baseball tickets to watch the Mets play the Reds and now the calendar is full. It's too bad I didn't hear about the new museum that opened up in Petersburg, Kentucky or I would have loved to go. It's only 20 miles south of Cincinnati.

But this isn't your regular, run-of-the-mill museum. You know the kind I'm talking about. They're usually pretty boring, with old stuff encased in hermetically sealed glass. You see one fossil, you've seen them all. But not this museum. This is a brand new $27 million CREATION MUSEUM! No artifacts here!

That's right! Forget about what you may have learned in school. All that schoolin' ain't gonna learn you nuthin'! This is the real deal! A museum that tells the Bible's version of Earth's history - that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago.

"The guests were very happy with the museum experience," [co-founder Mark] Looy said. "Of course, we had some naysayers come through and engage us in conversation, and that's fine - we want them."

One of the naysayers was Lawrence Krauss, a physicist visiting from Cleveland, who rated the museum a 4 out a 5 for technology, but a negative 5 out of 5 for content.
My favorite is this: Some exhibits show dinosaurs aboard Noah's Ark and assert that all animals were vegetarians until Adam committed the first sin in the Garden of Eden.

Hmm... I'm confused. Didn't Noah come after Adam? If that's the case, that means that at least some of the animals were now carnivores... Oh well. I guess Noah had extra livestock to feed the dinosaurs. "Okay T-Rex, you can eat anything you can catch, just make sure you leave me a male and a female of each."

Remember, everyone is welcome, but a word of advice to the naysayers: don't drink anything they offer you. Also, make sure the bottled water in the vending machines is sealed.