tags: creationism, mastodon skull, Mt Blanco Fossil Museum, fossils
The Mount Blanco creationist "museum" in Crosbyton, Texas managed to raise the funds to save their facility from extinction by selling their 40,000 year old mastodon skull at auction. The skull, named "Lone Star", was estimated to be worth $160,000 and sold for $191,200. The "museum", which claims that humans and dinosaurs co-existed and that the universe, the earth and everything on it were created six thousand years ago, will use these funds to continue spreading lies to the public regarding the nature and origins of life and the universe.
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Via Andrew Sullivan's blog I came across this account of a recent talk given by former FEMA director Michael Brown:
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Please this skull is fake and they know it. How can a skull be 40,000 years old when anyone visiting this museum knows the universe was created 6,000 years ago?
Seriously, how do religious people involved with this museum deal with such issues?
Thats a good point, someone should have taken them to task over that. Were they lying on the auction notes or lying in their "facility"?
So the legal issue is: did they commit fraud if they misstated a material fact intentionally on which the purchaser relied to the purchaser's damage? Since their misrepresentation about the age in fact was no misrepresentation at all in the eyes of the purchaser, I argue there is no claim for fraud on account of there being no damages (other than to the reputation of anyone who holds out as a young-earth creationist).
On the legal issue of fraud, the seller would have to know that the seller was selling something that was false, and the buyer bought the object on the seller's misrepresentation.
If the seller sincerely believed in the creationist time line, and sold the skull on these believes there is no fraud.
I am Curious who bought the skull.
Isn't the Daily Show taped in NYC? I know there is a writer's strike but wow, "to save their facility from extinction" and the whole irony of it all - c;mon, this is tailor-made for John Stewart - You could be the new science editor for the show - or feed him the lines!
It's great - you could help science and show the mindless en4emies of science for what they are.....Sel in Jacksonville, FL