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Another one bites the dust
Thanks to Rebecca Clayton at Pocahontas County Fare for finding out that another creationist museum seems to have financial troubles:
DALLAS, Texas (AP) — A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction.
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.”
Heritage Auction Galleries says the skull is estimated to be 40,000 years old, and projects it will fetch upward of $160,000. The artifact discovered in La Grange in 2004 is believed to be the largest of its kind, Heritage spokesman David Herskowitz said….
Claims on the museum’s Web site include that Noah took dinosaurs aboard his ark….”We’ve struggled so long here just to keep this thing going,” Taylor said. “We’re kind of losing interest. You can just tread water for so long.”
As Rebecca said, it’s a case of natural selection. No ark in sight to rescue these drowners.
Though I hate to think of a mastadon head going on the auction block to keep this place open.
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3 Comments
1. MW replies at 29th January 2008, 1:25 am :
I agree. I think the thing that bothers me the most about this whole thing is the thought that a Creation “museum” of all places has hold of such a valuable archaeological artifact. Not so much in terms of the monetary cost, but in what letting actual scientists examine it might help us understand. Even if this skull can’t tell us much, it still deserves to be in the hands of people who respect it enough not to want to sell it, just so they can keep their dream factory open.
Whoever ends up with it, I hope they’re equipped to properly take care of it. The only tragedy that could come of this closing is if the skull got destroyed because of carelessness or stupidity.
2. Rebecca Clayton replies at 29th January 2008, 7:11 pm :
I expect that whoever buys the mastadon head will be a better repository for it than a creationist museum! This is a spectacular exhibit piece, but it may or may not have important scientific value. Often, the most informative specimens are dull-looking critters in the museum’s back rooms, while the flashy stuff on public exhibition is actually rather boring. (I say this as a former museum entomologist, who once haunted the back rooms with the other dull-looking creatures.)
3. Tommy replies at 30th January 2008, 10:10 am :
Rebecca, i think it’s the fossils with six-inch teeth that most people come to see
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