<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ac5dab4-a9df-4bc8-ade0-7d65f8817c4f/F9C43F00-89B0-4DA1-96E8-8C3DE8632423/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/08/creation-museum-begats-controversy/" href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/08/creation-museum-begats-controversy/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.badastronomy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/08/creation-museum-begats-controversy/"><DIV id="stuff"> <H2>The BABlogger</H2> <A href="http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html"><IMG width="150" height="128" alt="Image of Phil Plait and Space shuttle" src="http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/bablog/phil_shuttle.jpg" /></A> <P> I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I like reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is <A href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/08/creation-museum-begats-controversy/mailto:badastro%20at%20badastronomy%20dot%20com">Phil Plait</A>, and I run <A href="http://www.badastronomy.com/intro.html">the Bad Astronomy website</A>. </P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/08/creation-museum-begats-controversy/"><P>Sometimes, I have to laugh at the restrictions fundamentalist religions place on human behavior. I like to think of it this way: the tighter they fasten the chastity belt, the more likely stuff will pop out they don’t wanna see.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/08/creation-museum-begats-controversy/"><P>Today’s example is Ken Ham’s atrocious <A target="_blank" href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/fastsearch?order=date&IncludeBlogs=7&search=museum">"creation museum"</A>, which is more akin to a funhouse full of warped mirrors that distort reality than an actual place to learn stuff. The situation: in a film shown in the museum depicting the Biblical account of creation, it turns out the actor playing Adam has, well, bitten off more than just a chunk of apple. <A target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/07/national/a175033D34.DTL">He used to run a "sexually suggestive" website</A>. Ham has taken down the video pending an investigation.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/08/creation-museum-begats-controversy/"><P>Shocking! You’d think the far-right theocrats would feel a bit haggard at this point, but the hits keep on coming.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F9C43F00-89B0-4DA1-96E8-8C3DE8632423/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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