The Budget Travel website recently started a contest asking people to vote on the top 15 places that kids should see before they turn 15.
The Creation Museum started well. When I first saw the site, it was
ranked first with about 640 votes and about 80 positive comments. Well,
word got out to popular atheist PZ Myers and on Wednesday morning
(2/15/12), he encouraged his blog readers to visit the site and start
voting on this “awful poll” for any tourist attraction that had a chance
of beating the Creation Museum (which had slipped to #2 by the time he
posted). His readers (one person called them the PZombies) immediately
followed his advice and started voting.
I don’t have a problem with anyone voting in the poll. They have
every right to do it, and there are some fabulous places that a person
can vote for in addition to the Creation Museum. However, it’s the
behavior of many of these atheists that is so enlightening. As I am
typing this, there are eleven fake names that have been added to mock
the Creation Museum, such as the Creation Tower of Jesus, Creationism
& Fairy Tales Museum, and the Creation Museum of Child
Indoctrination Anti-Intellectualism.
Those fake names are the least of my concerns, although they show the
immaturity of some of these atheists (for the record, I don’t believe
PZ Myers encouraged his readers to add these to the list). What is far
worse are the numerous comments that have been added to the Creation
Museum’s link for voting. Over 500 comments have been made about the
Creation Museum, but by my count, no more than 13 comments exist for any
other place. The first 50 or so comments were overwhelmingly positive
for the museum. That was until the atheists arrived. It’s certainly okay
for people to express their opinions, so I’m not calling on anyone to
ban these folks from the site. I want to use this as an example to point
out their utter hypocrisy and their irrational fear of biblical
creationists. Continue at Tim Chaffey
