{"id":284,"date":"2007-11-21T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T08:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/a-load-of-horseshit\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T08:39:22","slug":"a-load-of-horseshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/a-load-of-horseshit\/","title":{"rendered":"… a load of horseshit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Came across an interesting and amusing blog post by John Scalzi<\/a>, describing his recent visit to the Creation Museum<\/a>, here’s how he describes it:<\/p>\n

Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not talking just your average load of horseshit; no, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking colossal load of horsehit. An epic load of horseshit. The kind of load of horseshit that has accreted over decades and has developed its own sort of ecosystem, from the flyblown chunks at the perimeter, down into the heated and decomposing center, generating explosive levels of methane as bacteria feast merrily on vintage, liquified crap. This is a Herculean load of horseshit, friends, the likes of which has not been seen since the days of Augeas. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You have to read the whole post it really did make me laugh out loud. <\/a>Whilst the posting begins in a very irreverent manner Scalzi does succeeds in making some interesting points most notably about the nature of Creationism and his objections to it and not Christianity …<\/p>\n

There have to be people who believe this horseshit unreservedly, but I suspect that perhaps the majority of the visitors I saw were Christians who may not buy into the whole \u00e2\u20ac\u0153six days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d thing, but are curious to see how it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being presented. To be clear, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153horseshit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been speaking of is not Christianity, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creationism, which to my mind is a teleological quirk substantially unrelated to the grace one can achieve through Jesus Christ. Now, the Creation Museum rather emphatically argues that a literal reading of the Bible is essential for true Christianity \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a whole red-lit section that suggests the ills of society are directly related to folks deciding that maybe some parts of the Bible are, you know, metaphorical \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just more horseshit, of a slightly different flavor. There are lots of Christians who clearly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to twist their brain like a pretzel to get around the idea that the universe is billions of years old and that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve evolved from earlier forms. For those folks, the Creation Museum is probably about culture, to the extent any installation largely created by someone who previously worked for Universal Studios can be about culture <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I only came across the posting because I finally bought a copy of Bobby Henderson’s The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a>, which  Rob<\/a> recommended to me ages ago! I started reading it last night and am thoroughly enjoying, I must confess I haven’t laughed so much in ages! I’ll post up a review when I’m finished. I visited the official site for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> and that’s where I came across the link to Scalzi’s posting.<\/p>\n

Rob and I have been debating the whole Creationism vs Evolution thing for a while now and if nothing else this has given me a bit more food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Came across an interesting and amusing blog post by John Scalzi, describing his recent visit to the Creation Museum, here’s how he describes it: Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not talking just your average load … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[225,127,223,224],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-religion","tag-creationism","tag-evolution","tag-flying-spaghetti-monster","tag-fsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}