The BBC and a Ham project*.

BBC Radio 4 is gem, and among is finest jewels is From Our Own Correspondent, a half-hour programme which allows the BBC's reporters around the world to muse about a place, event or subject rather than file a straightforward news report. It's a lovely, mind expanding half hour every week. This week Martin Redfern visited the 'museum of creationism' in Petersburg, Kentucky run by a man called Ken Ham who was instructed to open this in a dream. Go read. I sent PZ Myers at Pharyngula a link to the article (he has been trenchant about the museum and its creator Ken Ham in the past), and he posted Somebody, please take this myth outside and shoot it? by way of reply.

*'Ham' can mean amateur, as well as cured pork (best served on buttered white bread with watercress and atomic mustard).