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California's creation museum

By pharyngula on September 27, 2010.

A few people took advantage of the Creation Research Society's open house to take a peek inside the asylum, and sent back pictures.

Eric Youngstrom found signs of their evidence-based reasoning.

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Ooooh, numbers! It must be real then. Just like the 64.8 meter long giant squid I keep in the 4.3 million cubic meter tank in my basement.

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Because, as we all know, all you have to do is refer to Hitler's evil using sciencey sounding phrases like "Darwinian" and "natural selection" — phrases he didn't use or didn't like — to make Darwin guilty of Hitler.

Jason Frye…well, I don't know what he found. These are genuine WTF? displays from the 'museum'.

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I think they're trying to make a case for trinitarianism using made-up diagrams, but I'm not sure. These could be Martian anatomy diagrams from someone who watched George Pal's War of the Worlds.

A video of the place!

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