Thursday, June 14, 2007
Intellectual Molestation
Evolutionary biologist Gene Kritsky took a look at Ken Ham's Creation Museum the other day. "It's bait-and-switch," he tells Cincinnati's City Beat. "Get them in with dinosaurs, then let the message morph. Adam sins, Noah's ark arrives."
"The dinosaurs?" Kritsky says, "they're eye candy for kids. A lot of kids get into science because of dinosaurs. I did. For me it was Frito Corn Chips. Seven years old and little dinosaurs were in Frito's. I asked my mom what was that, and she said, 'A dinosaur.' So they're using dinosaurs as an eye candy... it's almost like intellectual molestation."
"The dinosaurs?" Kritsky says, "they're eye candy for kids. A lot of kids get into science because of dinosaurs. I did. For me it was Frito Corn Chips. Seven years old and little dinosaurs were in Frito's. I asked my mom what was that, and she said, 'A dinosaur.' So they're using dinosaurs as an eye candy... it's almost like intellectual molestation."
