What price stupidity? 20 bucks.

Part of the greatness of America has always been the ability of people to turn a profit by making other people more stupid than they were before they bought whatever it was that somebody was selling. From P.T. Barnum to Jell-O shots, from Ozzfest to astrology, we often pay for the privilege of going dumb.

The most recent example seems to be down in Petersburg, Ky., where the Creation Museum opened on Monday. It costs adults 20 smackers to see exhibitions that purport to show that the earth is but 6,000 years old, that cavemen lived cheek by jowl with dinosaurs and that evolution is the devil's Sunday school because those pointy-headed atheist scientists don't accept the Book of Genesis as an accurate description of prehistory. The museum is run by "young earth creationists,'' the sort of folks who think the proponents of Intelligent Design are loosey-goosey liberals.

This is America. People have the right to believe anything they want, even nonsense. But I hope there isn't much of a market for this kind of malarkey. Maybe the place will go belly-up before too long. But I'm not holding my breath. The website for the new Creation Museum can be found at http://www.creationmuseum.org/