Skull for sale

[texastoast]

Creationist museum auctioning mastodon skull

DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction.

The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder.

"If it sells, well, then we can come another day," Joe Taylor said. "This is very important to our continuing."

Heritage Auction Galleries says the skull is estimated to be 40,000 years old, and projects it will fetch upward of $160,000. The artifact discovered in La Grange in 2004 is believed to be the largest of its kind, Heritage spokesman David Herskowitz said.

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Claims on the museum's Web site include that Noah took dinosaurs aboard his ark. The prevailing scientific wisdom is that humans and dinosaurs missed each other by tens of millions of years.

More at link

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/17/mastodon.skull.ap/index.html

[jgraz]

1. Can't they just pray for the money?

:shrug:

[Wednesdays]

6. You'd think that one mention on the 700 Club

and the gullible will cheerfully open their pocketbooks. :shrug:

[flvegan]

2. Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum just proved evolution.

First, it was nothing. It evolved into crap. Now it's dying out.

[BuyingThyme]

3. Noah ran out of cookies and at all the dinosaurs before the rains subsided.

[Orsino]

4. Well, if they'd admit that the skull is older than 5,000 years...

...they'd fetch a better price.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. How can they possibly have a skull that's 40,000 years old if the earth is only 6,000? Scam!!!

[AlCzervik]

7. their lack of visitors is an excellent example of a free market economy.