At the risk of offending a few of my colleagues and friends I have to ask the following.

Are we returning to the Middle Ages? I ask because the false prophets (to use the appropriate descriptor) are at it again. Yes, spending $25 million on a Creationist Museum (this, in itself, making a mockery of the term museum). Does the fact that it is in Kentucky have any relevance? It might well have been in several other states; Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, for example.

Over one hundred and fifty years of painstaking evidentoriary data collection, the application of countless hours by dedicated scholars and professionals, coupled with the overwhelming amassing of minutiae to support worldwide efforts - special reference to Ernst Mayr (b. 1905, first survey 1928), and for what? To make a mockery of the word Museum and 'Science'.

Fossils and sophisticated nuclear dating technology show that Earth is more than 4 billion years old, the first dinosaurs appeared around 200 million years ago, and they died out well before the first human ancestors arose a few million years ago.

“Genesis is not science,” said Mary Dawson, curator emeritus of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. “Genesis is a tale that was handed down for generations by people who really knew nothing about science, who knew nothing about natural history, and certainly knew nothing about what fossils were.”

Ken Ham, the 'Museum' founder, on the other hand, says he believes most fossils are the result of the Great Flood described in Genesis. Surely, we can do better than this? I am not saying that we have mutually exclusive points of view here. You can take a truly scientific approach and yet still wonder about a higher being who can consider an ordered universe. This 'Museum', however, which I'm sure is very entertaining and a fun to walk around, is presenting something quite different. Fiction as fact or, as I put it in my title, pseudo-science.