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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 09/11/2007 : 03:23:56
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I came within an ace of putting this one in Moonscape -- if Jerome can do it, so can I, and it's certainly surreal enough, but changed my mind at the last moment. A comparison between the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Creation Museum
by David A. DeWitt, Ph.D., Director, Center for Creation Studies, Liberty UniversitySeptember 10, 2007
In the past several months I visited two major U.S. museums. During the spring, I took a group of Liberty University students to Washington, D.C. to visit the famed Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Then, in the summer, my wife and I drove the 450 miles to visit AiG's Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky.
Both museums had dinosaur skeletons, fossils, and a cast of “Lucy” the australopithecine (the supposed link between humans and an ape-like ancestor). Both museums had information about various animals. Both had videos to watch. But that is about where the similarities end.
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It's a fun read for those who's ulcers are of the calm variety and can take a little smarmy fantasy along with outright lying in stride.
But it caused me to again wonder; will Ham's Folly actually be a long-term success? It started out with a whoop & hooray, but so do a great many failures & near failures once the novelty wears off. I might speculate that, unlike the Smithsonian, few will want to travel the distances required just to see it. It could well end up being more than a local phenomena/tourist-trap. The Smitty, on the other hand, is a must-see and DC is often visited from afar for no more than that. Not to mention the exacting research performed there, which AiG, et al., wouldn't know anything about.
We shall see; we shall see. Until then, it's all good for a laugh & a larf & I'm enjoying hell out of it.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 09/11/2007 : 05:15:21 [Permalink]
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Creation Studies at Liberty University. I suspect that he could have written this without having ever visited either museum. Conclusion...
There could hardly be more contrast between two museums. The first one has “exchanged the truth of God for a lie” and teaches that man has evolved from tiny rat-like creatures over millions of years; the second upholds the truth of God's Word and teaches that the Bible can be trusted.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/11/2007 : 06:33:29 [Permalink]
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It's actually almost impossible for me to take anything seriously that is preceded by that top-of-the-page artwork, showing sauropods grazing with antelope. It's clear that there is no real attempt by this lot to gloss over Creationism with a veneer of science. (They do hire good artists, though one artists who are laughably weak in researching their subject.) It all comes down to, "Who ya gonna believe."
The article may as well have been subtitled, "A comparison of reason and superstition." That's all it amounts to.
We need to keep educating the public. That, and preventing Creationist crap being taught in public schools, while mercilessly ridiculing it wherever its taught by the fundies.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 08:16:12 [Permalink]
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There could hardly be more contrast between two museums. The first one has “exchanged the truth of God for a lie” and teaches that man has evolved from tiny rat-like creatures over millions of years; the second upholds the truth of God's Word and teaches that the Bible can be trusted.
I encourage everyone to visit the Creation Museum and, if you can, bring a skeptical friend. |
I would be delighted to be that skeptical friend. Of course, by the end of the tour, they might regret that they brought me…
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 09/11/2007 : 11:06:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
There could hardly be more contrast between two museums. The first one has “exchanged the truth of God for a lie” and teaches that man has evolved from tiny rat-like creatures over millions of years; the second upholds the truth of God's Word and teaches that the Bible can be trusted.
I encourage everyone to visit the Creation Museum and, if you can, bring a skeptical friend. |
I would be delighted to be that skeptical friend. Of course, by the end of the tour, they might regret that they brought me…
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The first thing I thought when I read that ridiculous blurt was, hand up and waving: Oooo, pick me; PICK ME!!
You might think that the guy didn't think that through, but he did. He knows full well that no True Believer(tm) is going to take a hard skeptic anywhere near the creation moouseum, even that if that TB actually knows one and is on speaking terms with him/her. So, DeWitt gets a free pass on it, ass safely covered. He missed his calling, I think; shoulda gone into politics.
I still hope to go but it'll have to wait until better financial times -- unless.....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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A tale of two museums.....
