Creationist auction
| 11 June, 2010 | Adie Chan |
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Ever want to be the proud owner of petrified wood slab, a mummified Eqyptian cat, or a genuine replica Tyrannosaurus rex foot? Well, now’s your chance!
The Gallery of Creation, a creationist museum of natural history that aims to “present examples of God’s creations in such a beautiful manner that one is inspired to have a greater appreciation for God’s handiwork and a greater love for our creator,” according to its website, is auctioning off much of its collection.
The auction will take place next Friday and Saturday (25th-26th June) and online bids will be accepted.
Would you consider picking up something from the auction considering the provenance and original intent of the collection?
– Bob Grant, Associate Editor, The Scientist
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I would bid on the model showing Noah riding an apatosaur to the ark.
I’ll bid $10 for the lot!
OTOH – The mummified cat sounds like an acquisition of interest.
Who cares where it came from? It’s not stolen.
ummm does this mean theyre closing up shop??? Can we all shout hurrah???
Wonder how we can insure this trend continues….
Again- lets crucify the Christians- If this were a Mosque would you be shouting hurray?
Yes !
on second thought, IF THEYRE SIMPLY RAISING FUNDS for continuing the museum, maybe it is then important to not add to those coffers.
In a ruthlessly efficient capitalist society only the fittest (in the environment at any moment) survive.
How strange this does not happen in the wilderness.
Now the Gallery of Creation is subject to the predatory attentions of assorted human vultures, hyenas, jackals etc..
Is there a lesson or a moral in here somewhere?
Maybe the founders of the gallery missed the biblical references to motes and beams in peoples eyes.
Maybe the founders of the gallery missed the biblical references to god and mammon.
Greed and creed is not really a good basis for a successful business plan.
They feel nice to make fun of creationists, is the end all be wise to think science is death and oblivion!
The human science ends one day!
Lets all jeer and prance about with glee. But lets not be concerned that yet another biology museum is sold off. I note that “The museum features some of the most impressive animatronics ever created. Animatronics is the use of electronics and robotics in mechanized animal mounts to simulate life. The founders of the museum, the Hurt family, are world renowned for their skill and craftsmanship and have routinely built exhibits and animatronics for The Smithsonian, Disney World and Epcot Center”. Falling attendance lead the owners to liquidate their assets.
Its a problem not confined to creationists. Many a museum has quietly disposed of their drawers of beetles, butterflies and such – as they tart up displays to appeal to a fickle public – after all, you only need one specimen to show the public how evolution occurred, and no-one now wants to see a collection!
Regardless of the museum it’s coming from, it has some very neat natural history stuff.
Interesting dilemma about buying the items. Like debating whether to pay money to see the ‘new’ creationist museum in southern Ohio. Incredibly interested in seeing what it’s like but don’t want to give them money.
It seems like they’re liquidating everything here, so I doubt the museum is expected to continue. I’ve been killing time listening to the auction. It’s a very quirky collection of things, that’s for sure! The mummified cat (supposedly 3,500 years old from Egypt) just sold for $750.
My sense is that most of the items are going to dealers and it will end up in antique stores and flea markets, etc. I think that if I came across a fossil, or meteorite or something else really intriguing for cheap, I’d buy it without knowing it came from this place anyway, so I don’t know that I’d have a problem buying it from them directly.