Take notes, kids. The founder of the Creation Museum announced in a radio ad this week that dinosaurs sailed aboard Noah’s Ark and the Earth is only 6,000 years old. “God told Noah to take pairs of every kind of land animal,” he said. “You see, dinosaurs are no mystery at all if you accept the Bible’s account of creation!” Well, now we know.
The museum has been an easy target for cheap shots and overall ridicule since it opened in May 2007 in Petersburg, Kentucky. A Vocativ dig into the Twitter chatter about the museum in the past six months revealed a ton of mocking tweets. Nine million of them use the hashtag #lol.
Photographer Christian Hendricks recently made a pilgrimage to the museum, which has seen a decline in visitors in recent years. He snapped photos for Vocativ and listened to the Bible quotations blaring from the ceiling speakers. Reap the holy rewards of his work below, along with some pics shared via social media.
One exhibit takes a poke at public education’s “failure” to teach creationism in schools.
Yee-haw! These visitors have a blast riding “Jesus horses.”
Adam and Eve share a tender moment in Eden.
A museumgoer admits she’s a bit uncomfortable watching Adam and Eve frolic.
Above, Satan ominously appears in serpent form.
This visitor isn’t quite buying the museum’s claim that dinosaurs existed alongside man 6,000 years ago.
A Mennonite family spends a day at the museum. Admission for adults is $29.95. Children under age 5 can visit for free.
The above message has this visitor fearing for the future of mankind.
What would Charles Darwin say? This exhibit pits man versus ape.
The dinosaur outside the museum serves as a harbinger for what’s to come once you enter. These young ladies were impressed with their “epic” tour.
Wolves eating animals, mushroom clouds, piles of skulls, Nazi propaganda videos… Meaning? Hendricks says he supposes the idea was that big scary things speak for themselves.
Hendricks says he was worried how people would react to a photographer inside the museum, but says, “I was quickly consoled by all of the women taking photos of every plastic display.”
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