Can you say Ironic ???

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From MSNBC.com

By Paul J. Weber updated 7:53 p.m. ET, Thurs., Jan. 17, 2008

Creation museum selling mastodon skull
Texas repository counting on auction proceeds to stave off extinction

The Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum is offering what's billed as "the world's largest four-tusk mastodon" and other artifacts at an auction Sunday, as shown on the museum's Web site.


DALLAS - 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.

The auction will be held Sunday in Dallas, with bids accepted on the Internet until Saturday night.

"We're trying to reach out to someone who would buy it, then reach out to a museum in Texas," Herskowitz said.

Taylor said he would love to keep the skull of the elephant-like mammal as the centerpiece of his tiny museum just outside Lubbock, which includes creationist exhibits.

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.

Taylor said he's been financially crippled by about $136,000 he's been ordered to pay in a legal dispute over finder's rights to an Allosaurus skeleton unearthed in Colorado. About $141,000 has also been put into the mastodon skull's restoration, he said.

If the mastodon auction doesn't cover the judgment, Taylor said local authorities will seize his 10-year-old museum and sell off its contents in February.

[Rabid Monk]

Old news.

But why be satisfied with a skull, when you can have a full skeleton for your front yard?

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[OROD]

I dont understand, why dont they just pray? Besides, if they dont have the money to stay open it's probably because God doesnt want them to stay open. Why are they going against God's wishes?

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[telkanuru]

teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull

I'm kind of confused. Did the museum admit the skull was prehistoric?

Not that I terribly mind this kind of place going under.

[Phaeton]

If anyone says: "It's like raaaaiiiinn...." or any other line from that wretched Alanis Morissette song I'm going to have to do some things I may regret later.

Nothing in that song is ironic.

[OROD]

Nothing in that song is ironic.

Which is exactly why it's ironic!

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[Phaeton]

Or moronic. That kind of transcendent irony was clearly not the song's purpose.

[telkanuru]

Ironic?