Creationist Museum selling Mastdon Skull to keep museum open

[MiniMe]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/17/mastodon.skull.ap/index.html

So sad.


DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction.


The Volkswagen-size mastodon skull could fetch upward of $160,000 at auction. The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder.

"If it sells, well, then we can come another day," Joe Taylor said. "This is very important to our continuing."

Taylor said he's been financially crippled by about $136,000 he's been ordered to pay in a legal dispute over finder's rights to an Allosaurus skeleton unearthed in Colorado. About $141,000 has also been put into the mastodon skull's restoration, he said.

If the mastodon auction doesn't cover the judgment, Taylor said local authorities will seize his 10-year-old museum and sell off its contents in February.



I didn't realize that there were 2 cretionist museums, this one is in Lubbock, TX.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Ironically, market evolution is killing his business.

[originalpckelly]

11. So nice to see people realize evolution applies to us too!

Evolution is amazing, ain't it?

[tekisui]

2. Who will buy it? An Scientific Museum.

One that displays evidence of evolution, like their mastodon skull, probably.

Fend off the inevitable for one more day.

[madeline_con]

3. Awww, poor fundaMENTAList assholes.

They might not get to continue spreading their idiocy around. :cry:

[bullwinkle428]

4. Is this the very definition of irony?

"Step right up, folks...this is the skull of the very mastodon Adam used to ride around the Garden of Eden on those days when he just felt like 'chillaxin'"

[karlrschneider]

5. It's not terribly far from Glen Rose where the fundies have found "man tracks" next to

dino footprints in the Paluxy river. I've seen them in action as I worked in the oil fields around there. :eyes:

[IDemo]

6. Ya know, a good VW guy would have restored that skull for a lot less

[MiniMe]

10. LOL

:rofl:

[saltpoint]

7. I hope nobody buys the skull, the museum shuts down, and they put in a

beer joint.

[VOX]

8. "Y'all step raht up'n git yer gen-u-wine Jeezus horse-head here, folks!"

"This here cree-ay-shun-ist mu-zee-u-em has gotta crawl afore it kin walk! And that, mah freynds, means munny. Lotsa munny. So what am Ah bid fer this fahn spec-ee-men? Ain't this a wonderment, folks? Dig real deep now, and tuck in that 'lil love gift fer Gawd, will ya?"

[Johonny]

9. why

would that have any value? I mean it's not old or hard to get or anything.

[Quantess]

13. I know. It's only 6000 years old, at the most.

:rofl:

[Ioo]

12. So much for the flock keeping the hope alive... bush of fake POS's

I hope that a gay pagan back home from having an abortion and a great meal of French wine and cheese buys the stuff and gives it to a real museum