Zoo partners with Creation Museum... for awhile.

I suppose it seemed like a good idea at the time, as many truly awful ideas do.  Last week the Cincinnati Zoo announced a promotional partnership with Kentucky's Creation Museum to attract visitors to their holiday attractions through joint ticket sales.  That's right, a zoo that prides itself on advancing the cause of science through research and education (and boasts that over 300,000 students participate in its educational programs) quietly slithered into bed with AiG, the people who teach their children that dinosaurs and humans co-existed on the planet.  For what it's worth - and trust me, it's not worth much - AiG stands for Answers in Genesis, and it's that organization's so-called museum that caused the uproar.  From Cincinatti.com:  Most of the protests echoed the same theme: The Creation Museum promotes a religious point of view that conflicts with the zoo's scientific mission. Some complained that the zoo, which receives public support through a tax levy, should not become involved with a private museum dedicated to the teachings of the Bible's Book of Genesis. Others said a scientific institution shouldn't link itself to a place that argues man once lived side by side with dinosaurs. "They seem like diametrically opposed institutions," said Dr. James Leach, a Cincinnati radiologist who e-mailed zoo officials about his concerns. "The Cincinnati Zoo is one of this city's treasures. The Creation Museum is an international laughingstock."

All this allowed AIG founder Ken Ham (named after Noah's son?) to perform his "Christians Are Persecuted" song and dance while basking in some not unwelcome media limelight.  Sayeth Ham: "We sent out a press release to reply to the media making inquiries about the latest attack on the museum, and I ended up doing some media interviews—all unexpected!"  (Yeah, I bet.)  "It’s another story of intolerance at its best - or should I say at its worst! - on the part of the very religious evolutionists who can’t tolerate people even having the opportunity to consider all the information about evolution. It was just one more situation that could have been featured in the Expelled movie."  (But then that would mean more publicity, which thou surely despiseth.)

Responding the widespread criticism, Cincinnati Zoo has wisely cut its ties to the creation "museum," leaving AiGers to float that ark up someone else's ass.  So sayeth The Lord.

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Comments

[Gaina]

When first read this, my thoughts were....well, unrepeatable actually (LOL) but the more I think about it, the Zoo might actually be doing something clever and using it as an opportunity to give people who otherwise would have probably closed their minds to the facts of evolution another point of view?