Note: Not an actual image
of Adam and Eve.

Actor playing Adam was discovered to be a porn star!

As usual, I am surfing the internet to find articles of interest, and low and behold I find two things that are absolutely hilarious to me. My first discovery was something I would consider “hypocritical irony”. At a newly opened Creationist Museum, they had a “play” about Adam and Eve, and their special garden. The man who was playing Adam in the Garden of Eden, also owns a graphic web site called “Bedroom Acrobat”. (Don’t you just love it.) Bedroom Acrobat is a site that allows members to post explicit stories and photos.

But, it gets even better! He has been pictured on his site smiling alongside a drag queen in a T-shirt brandishing the site’s sexually suggestive logo. If that isn’t enough, he also models a clothing line that promotes “free love,”"pleasure” and “thrillz.” When the people running the museum found out, they were appalled and immediately pulled his 40 minute video from the museum. It seems they think perhaps he is not exactly the kind of man who is aligned with the biblical standards and moral code upon which the museum was founded. I find this hysterically funny especially since the museum is attempting to push biblical history as science. Now they have this image problem with their biblical star.

My second hilarious find was this photo montage of the Creationist Museum. To check it out, go to flickr.com. It really is mind boggling that in a world in which science has established that dinosaurs were extinct before man came on the scene, that now we have a museum with a replica of a Triceratops, complete with saddle, that Adam supposedly rode. I’m not kidding. If you want to check out Adam’s “pimped out” ride, click on the second picture from the left on the flickr link above.

On Dailykos.com, there is an article that explores the science-busting antics of these creationist Christians. The museum itself is located outside Cincinnati and cost a whopping $27 million to build. A tech Web site, Ars Technica, took a little tour of the museum and this is what they had to say:

Photo of Garden of Eve at a Creationist Museum
Photo from Dr JonboyG of Flickr

There were posters explaining just how coal could be formed in a few weeks as opposed to over millions of years, and how rapidly the biblical flood would cover the earth, drowning all but a handful of living creatures. The flood plays a big part in the museum’s attempt to explain away what we see as millions of years of natural processes. There was also an explanation as to why, with only one progenitor family, it wasn’t considered incest for Adam and Eve’s children to marry each other. Apparently there was less sin back then, and therefore fewer mutations in their DNA. Evidently sin, and not two copies of the same recessive trait, gives rise to congenital birth defects.

As you can see, when it comes to the bible, believers are convinced that it is God’s word and as God’s word, it is infallible. I guess it’s no surprise when the organizers of the museum state that the Bible is a book of history and “you can trust its science”. From the Creationists Museum Web site, they state:

The Bible speaks for itself at the Creation Museum. We’ve just paved the way to a greater understanding of the tenets of creation and redemption. Our exhibit halls are gilded with truth, our gardens teem with the visible signs of life. We invite you to visit the Creation Museum. Your life may change forever.

So, what has happened to rational thought? Has science made a colossal error in interpreting the fossil and geological record of the planet? I think Christians should let religion be religion and science be science. The minute religion starts to intrude on science’s turf by promoting their ideas based on fossils, geology and quasi-scientific exhibitions, it gives skeptics one more reason to reject religion. After all, isn’t it called faith for a reason?

In their attempt to prove how scientists have somehow botched their reading of the fossil record, they are turning people off. It seems to me that in recent years, believers are breaching the line of reason and are demanding more and more recognition any way they can get it. They almost appear desperate. It reminds me of the famous Shakespearean quote: “Me thinks thou dost protest too much.”