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Monday Jul 6 | Providence Journal

Author ponders how stupidity became a virtue

In olden days, every village had one: an idiot. Just one, though. A village with too many idiots collected the extra ones and put them on a ship of fools.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

NowPublic

Scientists Visit the Creation Museum

Did the scientists drink the water? by DowneastDem Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 02:41:39 PM PDT The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky opened in 2007 to present an account of the origins of the universe, life and mankind according to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Nashville Scene - Pith in the Wind

Kentucky Creation Museum Defies Science, Common Sense

Did you know Noah's Ark had dinosaurs? They didn't eat everyone and everything onboard 'cause of God! Really? So you're saying dinosaurs were around less than 6,000 years ago, which is the approximate age of the earth? And I suppose carbon dating is backing you up on all this? No? Just a book written by unreliable narrators and filtered through the ...

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Bloomberg

Small, Saddled Dinosaurs, Saved by Noah, Reach U.S.: Manuela Hoelterhoff

In olden days, every village had one: an idiot. Just one, though. A village with too many idiots collected the extra ones and put them on a ship of fools.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Independent

Mike James: Drama of creationism

For all I know, the earth really was created in six days, just as it says in Genesis.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Flooding across Boone County

Heavy rains caused flooding, sometimes heavy, in Northern Kentucky on Thursday night.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

The Cincinnati Enquirer

SD1 begins biggest-ever sewer project

BOONE COUNTY - Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky will break ground today on its new Western Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in western Boone County.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Creation Museum's attendance exceeds expectations

PETERSBURG, Ky. -- A school bus hissed to a stop near a giant concrete dinosaur perched outside the Creation Museum, a $27 million, 70,000-square-foot natural history museum-meets-Biblical theme park.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

The Panda's Thumb

High School Field Trip to Creation Museum

I just received an e-mail from the Center for Inquiry , which begins thus: Matthew LaClair ... has alerted us that his former history teacher, David Paszkiewicz, is at it again.

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Sat Jun 06, 2009

The Frederick News Post

The science of Noah's Ark

Wendye and Charles Antilla, certified video conference coordinators with Answers in Genesis, will present the DVD "Flood Geology" at Tuesday's meeting of the Frederick Creation Society.

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Thu Jun 04, 2009

Campbell County Recorder

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An old Petersburg bridge is getting an overdue upgrade. Ashby Fork Road is expected to be closed for three months as a new bridge is built.

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Sun May 31, 2009

The J-Walk Blog

Celebrating Two Years Of Stupidity

Ham news: Creation Museum Marks 2nd Anniversary . The controversial Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., marked its second anniversary this past week with slightly lower numbers than its first year but with much excitement.

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Fri May 29, 2009

WKRC-TV Cincinnati

Horse Stuck in the Mud in Boone County

Rescuers tend to "Cool Hand Luke" moments after he was pulled from a muddy creek in Boone County, KY.

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Thu May 28, 2009

WCPO-TV9 Cincinnati

Crews Trying To Rescue Horse In Boone Co.

Emergency crews are trying to rescue a horse that is stuck in a creek in Boone County.

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WKRC-TV Cincinnati

ALERT: Horse Stuck in the Mud in Boone County

A technical rescue team is working to save a horse stuck in a muddy creek in Boone County.

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Mon May 18, 2009

Kypost.Com

Accident Shuts Down Caroll C. Cropper Bridge

Police say one person suffered a head injury after the accident along westbound I-275 near the Ohio-Indiana border.

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Sun Apr 12, 2009

The Indianapolis Star

The Creation Museum

Where: 2800 Bullittsburg Church Road, Petersburg, Ky. How far, how long: 112 miles, 13/4 hours.

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Tue Mar 17, 2009

LancasterEagleGazette

Creationist museum: Darwin got something right

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A controversial Kentucky museum that trumpets the Bible story of creation and rejects evolution is making room for an odd guest: Charles Darwin.

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Fri Feb 27, 2009

Little Green Footballs

Video: Skeptic vs. Creationist

Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society interviews Answers in Genesis's star young earth creationist Georgia Purdom , at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY on February 18, 2009.

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Thu Feb 19, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Corrections and clarifications

In a report, Great train robber Ronnie Biggs set to be released in July , we said that one man died in the 1963 great train robbery.

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