I have a sick fascination with the t.v. show about these people, I think it's called "17 Kids and Counting".  My wife calls it "The Woman Who Mistook Her Vagina for a Clown Car."  I grew up in an abnormally large household with religious fanatics for parents, so in a way, it's like watching a horror movie.

Anyway, the other night I tuned in, and the family was on a vacation.  They pulled into the parking lot of a museum they were going to visit - The Creation Museum.

Holy.  Frost.

It was like a natural history museum, only it was completely unnatural.

They had life sized representations of the history of the earth as envisioned by creationists.  Here are Adam and Eve (don't worry, it is, of course, safe for work) in the Garden of Eden.

I'm sure you didn't know this (I didn't), but before Eve ate the apple, somehow all the animals and Adam and Eve survived without killing and eating each other.  They didn't explain what they ate, but it wasn't each other.  I kid you not:  Adam and Eve went about the business of standing so that so one could see their privates while animatronic raptors frolicked nearby.

It seems that the daughters of Eve played with squirrels without fear from the gigantic. predatory carnivores who lumbered past.

This place is in Kentucky, right over the border from Cincinnati.  I'm actually thinking about going, just because the animatronic dinosaurs were so impressive.

Anyway, the whole thing made me think of Undies.  She should take a trip down there to see just how wrong her thoughts on raptors are.

Michael Crichton just rolled over in his fresh grave.

Ravos the Mathimagician 63,472 21
11/06/2008 11:24 AM

Michael Crichton just rolled over in his fresh grave.

Actually, I think that is him trying to claw his way out.

Strangely Cromulent Bikini 62,262 18
11/06/2008 11:26 AM

I'm sure you didn't know this (I didn't), but before Eve ate the apple, somehow all the animals and Adam and Eve survived without killing and eating each other.

So what they're saying is, in addition to the bans on sex, drugs, booze, free thought and other immoral behaviour, all Christians should be vegan?

Man, this religion thing just gets more and more boring.

Whistler P. McManus 186,130 44
11/06/2008 11:29 AM

Here is a link to a very well done, though surprisingly mild, review of the museum from the New York Times.

Whistler P. McManus 186,130 44
11/06/2008 11:29 AM

Here is a link to a very well done, though surprisingly mild, review of the museum from the New York Times.

Whistler P. McManus 186,130 44
11/06/2008 11:30 AM

I suck at the new Zug.

UnderWhere? 101,398 77
11/06/2008 11:36 AM

Anyway, the whole thing made me think of Undies.  She should take a trip down there to see just how wrong her thoughts on raptors are.

For a second, I thought you were going to call me a religious fanatic.  The only thing I'm insane about is aliens - are they in this museum too?

Phuc 237,919 21
11/06/2008 12:37 PM

Someone please asplain to me exactly how it is that we haven't been taken over by a group that's smarter than half our population, like, say, the Aquatic Liberation Front?

Th Real Gonzo 118 6
11/06/2008 12:51 PM

Inertia, mostly.

Dropkick Brody 43,090 12
11/06/2008 01:28 PM

Hah, I'm watching Jerry Springer and the dude on stage is some sort of druggie/ religious nut.

He said he tasted blood in bread, to which Jerry interjected, "that's ketchup". Zing!

Boo Grrrrl 15,189 12
11/06/2008 01:52 PM

Yes, this "vacation hot spot" is in Kentucky.  I am so embarrassed.

The good news is, you can see me while you're here getting religion spoon fed to you.

The Duggar's creep me out like Willie Wonka - you want to be sucked into the craziness but you're a little scared at the same time.

Whistler P. McManus 186,130 44
11/06/2008 03:52 PM

The first time I saw the Duggars, it was on a t.v. special about the family.  I think they only had 15 kids at that point.  The way they had all the kids dressed so similarly, and had them all marching in lockstep, doing the same activities, everyone over the age of toddler expected to be self-reliant, and everyone of school age responsible for littler ones, the supressing all emotion and individuality - it was so much like my own childhood that I ran from the house screaming and hid in the woods for a couple of hours.

GrammarNazi 954 5
11/06/2008 04:22 PM

From the title of your thread, I thought you were going to say they announced they've got another one on the way.  You'd think, after a certain point, that her body would have gone on automatic shut-off or something.

Adddddd 0 4
11/06/2008 05:36 PM

why do all of the kids names start with the letter j??

do you think it's so that the parents can just start out each name with the same sound when they factually can't remember their names??

The Mailman 176,464 56
11/06/2008 05:49 PM

I'm sure you didn't know this (I didn't), but before Eve ate the apple, somehow all the animals and Adam and Eve survived without killing and eating each other. They didn't explain what they ate, but it wasn't each other.

They ate apples. There was nothing else. That's precisely why God's design was flawed from the beginning.

Thud 68,506 19
11/06/2008 06:22 PM

They ate apples. There was nothing else. That's precisely why God's design was flawed from the beginning.

They had the option of barbecued snake.

brubert 763 11
11/06/2008 06:29 PM

 Aren't they expecting No. 18 in January?  Or have I lost count?

Sugar-Free JollyLobsters 18,570 33
11/06/2008 06:49 PM

No, brubert, you're right. There is a chapter eighteen on the way.

Millie 116,988 28
11/06/2008 08:56 PM

I wanted to go to that museum and my sister told me I shouldn't support "those people" by paying to go to their museum.  But I SO want to see it.

It's disgusting that anyone would have that many kids.  I don't care if I'm being judgmental.  Everyone is judgmental about something; at least I admit it.

My grandmother was pregnant over 20 times.  She ended up with 14 children, a few still-births, and a few more miscarriages.  How can anyone grow up non-neurotic and unFrosted up after a childhood as one of a huge brood?  NO ONE.

Hell, I grew up in a family of six children and look how Frosted up I am.  Multiply it by three and that's what all those J kids are gonna be.

Whistler P. McManus 186,130 44
11/06/2008 09:05 PM

When I saw the dinosaurs and people together, I was thinking how Al and Nutbutter could marinate some apatosaurus steaks in an above ground swimming pool and put on one hell of a picnic.

Fantom Filly 39,193 20
11/06/2008 10:15 PM

They ate apples. There was nothing else. That's precisely why God's design was flawed from the beginning.

Mailman, I can't explain how happy that made me.

SHP 181,795 70
11/06/2008 11:24 PM

Do you see how ugly Eve was? Animals smaller than her were scared and animals larger than her were afraid she'd taste like tree bark.

SHP 181,795 70
11/06/2008 11:41 PM

Ever stop to think that if Momma Druggar had ever learned to give a decent blow job, she could give her vagina a break? At this point, the drain hole in the shower has to be a tighter fit. And that's a good thing, lest she go into labor while bathing.