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Today's adventure was to go to the Creation Museum near Cincinnati. We'd seen a few billboards advertising it on the way here originally and looked it up in more detail online when we decided that it might be worth our $30 each to go check it out.

The Creation Museum is sorta like a natural science museum, where they teach you everything happened through creation and not evolution, so the world is like 6000 years old and dinosaurs fit in that time period; in a way it's sorta like the anti-Cincinnati Museum that we visited for American Swag Day. I don't want to get too much into religion and beliefs and stuff like that (because I probably will later in this post), so I will just simply say that Garrett and I do not agree with these beliefs. There's like...carbon dating and shit. We had sorta been planning to go around to little kids who went there and inform them that there's like...carbon dating and shit, and we were going to prepare counterarguments for any resistance we met, but we didn't really do any preparing because we're lazy and preoccupied with progressing through HIMYM.

We were a little surprised at a few things: how many people there were at the museum (particularly families bringing their young kids), how they got the money to build it (they also got $5.6 million towards building a $24 million dollar life-size Noah's Ark). I was a little surprised at the propaganda they put throughout different parts of the museum, although I'm not sure I should have been. The museum begins with explaining that there are two different points of view: "man's word" and "God's word", and how they're different and all that while saying that the latter must be true. Then they kinda extended it to stuff outside science for a while...

This is a picture of a panel (probably the most depressing panel I have ever seen in a museum) that took up an entire wall and set up the next part of the exhibit. They used these ideas to depict those who believe in "man's word" in negative ways; they were videos of "a teenager viewing pornography while his brother plays a game in which he is on a 'killing spree'", a teenager who was pregnant (the video heavily suggesting she was about to get an abortion), and "a dysfunctional family" and other shit like that, which I had a problem with. Also, as I said earlier, they put in little hints of propaganda for anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion/pro-life (although they weren't so subtle with abortion) which also bothered me.

The museum also tried reallllly hard to explain the whole dinosaur thing. They have exhibits that explain how they could possibly be from within the last 6000 years and tell about how they used to only eat plants but when Adam and Eve screwed up some of them started eating meat and all this stuff. Besides that, it just meant more dinosaurs to look at, and we've learned from a couple of posts ago how much Garrett loves dinosaurs.

One of the biggest reasons we came here was to check out the petting zoo, where they had...

A ZORSE AND A ZONKEY (mistakenly named by the museum as a "zedonk"). These animals to me seemed only possible in the Avatar (the Last Airbender, not the blue people) world, or by means of polymerization in Yu-Gi-Oh, but we got to pet them in person. When we looked this place up online, I'm pretty sure these two creatures made us decide that we wanted to come here.

Anyway, that was the big event for the day. Ever since we've alternated between HIMYM and Blue Mountain State. I think tomorrow there's an air show at the base which we'll go check out.