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Today we went back to Cincinnati so we could visit the Creation Museum. The creation
museum is kind of like a museum of natural history, except that instead of real history,
it contains history according to religious fundamentalists who ignore logic and reason.
For example, it has exhibits about how dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark. I really don’t
know how to explain this place, so you might just want to google it. Pretty much all the
exhibits were about how “human logic” teaches us something, but “God’s truth” tells
us something completely different. Like this: human logic tells us that the universe was
formed 14 billion years ago but God tells us it was formed 6,000 years ago and science is
bad and dinosaurs and people lived together and before Adam ate the apple in the Garden
of Eden all dinosaurs were herbivores. Obviously, the human logic thing is ridiculous.
I think that pretty much summarizes the entire museum. Oh, and if you believe in
evolution you’ll have drug problems and get abortions and your parents will get divorced.
Seriously, there was an exhibit on that.

Duke and I first learned about this place a few weeks ago when we saw billboards for
it. After doing a bit of online research, we decided that we had to go, just to see if these
people were actually for real. Long story short, they are. We also were kind of curious
where they got the money to build a place like this. We never really figured that one out,
but they ask for donations and apparently a bunch of people give, because they’ve raised
5.6 million dollars for the construction of a full sized Ark.

Anyways, Duke and I went for 4 reasons:
1. To see if people actually went to this museum and believed the stuff there
2. To see dinosaurs (bonus points if they had an exhibit of people hunting dinosaurs)
3. Petting zoo
4. Petting zoo

The first thing we noticed was that there were a lot of people there. Too many. I would
have been disappointed if nobody had been there, because that wouldn’t have been any
fun. But there were so many people there that now I just feel sad. The most disturbing
part was the number of parents who brought their kids there.

They did have lots of dinosaurs, but unfortunately none of them were depicted fighting
humans. Duke and I did touch the Triceratops skeleton, though. Duke touched the leg,
because he’s lame. I touched the horns.

And then there was the petting zoo. That’s what we were most excited about. Why
were we so excited about a petting zoo? Because they have a zonkey* and a zorse.**
Obviously, seeing a zonkey and a zorse is a once in a lifetime opportunity, so we were
thrilled. I think Duke will be posting pictures. They were awesome. The zorse was a little
more friendly, but the zonkey definitely had the cooler stripes (and the cooler name).

* Zebra + Donkey = Zonkey

** Zebra + Horse = Zorse

Anyways, that was the high point of our day. We came back home and ate chick-fil-a and
watched How I Met Your Mother, which we will probably finish tomorrow.