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Adam and Eve Did What? A Visit to the Creationism Museum Makes Scientists Laugh, Cry
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For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.
But while there were a few laughs and some clowning for the camera, most left more offended than amused by the frightening way in which evolution -- and their life's work -- was attacked.
"It's sort of a monument to scientific illiteracy, isn't it?" said Jerry Lipps, professor of geology, paleontology and evolution at University of California, Berkeley.
"Like Sunday school with statues... this is a special brand of religion here. I don't think even most mainstream Christians would believe in this interpretation of Earth's history."
The 27 million dollar, 70,000-square-foot (6,500-square-metre) museum which has been dubbed a "creationist Disneyland" has attracted 715,000 visitors since it opened in mid-2007 with a vow to "bring the pages of the Bible to life."
Its presents a literal interpretation of the Bible and argues that believing otherwise leads to moral relativism and the destruction of social values.
Creationism is a theory not supported by most mainstream Christian churches.
Lisa Park of the University of Akron cried at one point as she walked a hallway full of flashing images of war, famine and natural disasters which the museum blames on belief in evolution.
"I think it's very bad science and even worse theology -- and the theology is far more offensive to me," said Park, a professor of paleontology who is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
"I think there's a lot of focus on fear, and I don't think that's a very Christian message... I find it a malicious manipulation of the public."
Phil Jardine posed for a picture below a towering, toothy dinosaur display.
The museum argues that the fossil record has been misinterpreted and that Tyrannosaurus rex was a vegetarian before Adam and Eve bit into that sin-inducing apple.
Jardine, a palaeobiologist graduate student from the University of Birmingham, was having fun on the tour, but told a reporter that he was disturbed by the museum's cartoonish portrayal of scientists and teachers.
"I feel very sorry for teachers when the children who come here start guessing if what they're being taught is wrong," Jardine said.
Arnie Miller, a palentologist at the University of Cincinnati who was chairman of the convention, said he hoped the tour would introduce the scientists to "the lay of the land" and show them firsthand what's being put forth in a place that has elicited vehement criticism from the scientific community.
"I think in some cases, people were surprised by the physical quality of the exhibits, but needless to say, they were unhappy with things that are inaccurately portrayed," he said.
"And there was a feeling of unhappiness, too, about the extent to which mainstream scientists and evolutionists are demonized -- that if you don't accept the Answers in Genesis vision of the history of Earth and life, you're contributing to the ills of society and of the church."
Daryl Domning, professor of anatomy at Howard University, held his chin and shook his head at several points during the tour.
"This bothers me as a scientist and as a Christian, because it's just as much a distortion and misrepresentation of Christianity as it is of science," he said.
"It's not your old-time religion by any means."
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Posted by: pelican beak on Jul 2, 2009 12:23 AM
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Fine. Come take it.
I'll take my pride from being part of Earthlife, and from the fact that my reaction to being part of its cancer, humanity, has been cosmically deep embarrassment.
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» RE: where? My question exactly
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» RE: where? Try looking it up
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Posted by: batmagoo on Jul 2, 2009 1:27 AM
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What other like-minded aberrations can we find within a small radius?
When was it built? By whom? Who paid for it? Who goes to see it? Does it make a profit? How does the neighboring community feel about it? Any hints?
It's nice to know how much it cost to build, and what the square footage happens to be, but honestly, what is the point of writing an article on scientific illiteracy and selective information gathering when the writer cannot even do a slightly better job of penning a simple article?
This is why Journalism is sorely needed on the Web.
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Posted by: ESPA on Jul 2, 2009 2:10 AM
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Delusional idiots, all of them (IMHO).
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Posted by: kepstein7777 on Jul 2, 2009 2:35 AM
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It must have been scary for humans to live during the same time that the T Rex was a vegetarian...acting all superior and constantly lecturing everybody about the evils of eating meat.
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Posted by: masthead on Jul 2, 2009 3:52 AM
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its entire “theory” of creationism is based on fake science, the same methods used by other wackaloon institutions like the Templeton Foundation, or the Discovery Institute, that doesn’t like it when you point out their fallacies. The creation museum is on the same level as this business where you can reserve a spot in heaven for $12.95 or 9.95 if you pay cash.
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Jul 2, 2009 3:59 AM
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Why is it considered more 'devote' to study 'God' from mere texts than to utilize the vast evidence of the physical world?
Failing to use the brain capacity we have been granted is doing a disservice to ourselves, the planet and an insult to whatever granted us this magnificant brain.
If 'Eve' is the one who accepted the Management position of 'Gods Green Earth'- I should think the HOLEY Rollers should be praising her name for giving Us the abiliity to not only study this grand 'creation', but revere the 'Creator'.Apparently, If left to 'Adam' we would be Still living in caves, eating raw meat and licking our asses clean.
Thanks Eve!
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Posted by: Suzon on Jul 2, 2009 4:24 AM
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Some entrepreneur (the very word raises my hackles) saw a niche market. Would be interesting to know who built this palace of ignorance and for how much?
It is wrong to make money out of lies.
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Posted by: pfgetty on Jul 2, 2009 4:59 AM
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If we can believe that garbage, what protects us from unscrupulous leaders telling us anything at all, and having us believe it?
Well, nothing. Certainly not the press, certainly not our scientific community.
Neither of these institutions have helped us assess and understand that we were lied to about 911. Facts, evidence, science..........all ignored in telling the story about the 19 hijackers.
One day there will be a 911 museum, and a few people will still believe the official story, while scientists and journalists and other "sophistocated" people will stream along its hallways laughing at how stupid people could be to believe the official story nonsense.
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Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Jul 2, 2009 5:30 AM
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I dunno... when the basics of your faith are believe in this particular god or you will burn in hell for all eternity, that seems pretty damned fear based.
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Posted by: Brez on Jul 2, 2009 5:49 AM
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So, I can live forever if I prove I love a zombie called Jesus by practicing ritual cannibalism and vampirism because a talking snake told a rib lady to eat magic fruit so she'd be smarter.
Extracted from the Bible Cliff Notes.
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Posted by: rgd on Jul 2, 2009 6:43 AM
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Contrary to what you or them think, creation and evolution are still theories and neither side is proven to be fact dispite what all the so-called Christians or scientist think. Just because it is in print doesn't mean its true.
How many of us were around 100 years ago let alone 1000 or 1,000,000 years. The professor from Howard isn't the only one shaking his head and rubbing his chin. I'll just bet you God in Heaven is doing the same and asking where in the hell do they come up with this stuff.
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Posted by: chaoslegs on Jul 2, 2009 7:30 AM
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Wasn't the theory of evolution first conceptualized in 1800s? Didn't war, famine and natural disaster exist prior to that time?
Were those horrible things just part of the sin of eating an apple?
Is the theory of evolution another result of the negative consequence of that eating of the apple?
Wasn't that apple the apple of knowledge?
And do we really want to stay ignorant?
Isn't being able to figure things out a consequence of eating the apple?
Is knowledge a sin?
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Posted by: marjani on Jul 2, 2009 7:31 AM
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It's not a belief in evolution that kills us -- God created things to "evolve."
It's a DIS-belief in God that causes the problems. Evolution was instituted by God for everything in life to inherently recreate, regenerate and procreate.
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» I don't discount religion.
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Posted by: Parcival01 on Jul 2, 2009 7:43 AM
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First, I often post comments in places like YouTube and other web sites. I'm sometimes amazed at what I get in response. (It's usually from those who purport to be "conservative," not necessarily "creationist." Despite centuries of science, academic rigor, legal decisions, the believers in these fairy tales hold on to their beliefs. And their holding on is, to them, a sign of the righteousness of their cause!
(I'm just now listening to an interesting course from the Teaching Company entitled "The Conservative Tradition." From that, I'm beginning to understand where some of this idiotic "reasoning" comes from.)
Anyway, don't immediately discount places like the Creationist Museum, or Orlando's "Holy Land." They DO, alas, have an audience, and they take themselves seriously.
I wish I knew what to do to counter them, but it doesn't do us any good to simply discount them as if they had no influence.
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Posted by: deni_haven on Jul 2, 2009 8:20 AM
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I'm guessing that the majority of the "teachers" whose students tour the creation science museums are homeschooling moms ~ so they're going to be delighted when their kids question evolution.
This article very well expresses the atomosphere and feelings of fear and negativity generated by the creation scientists.
Unfortunately ~ homeschooling is growing ~ exponentially as those who teach their children at home have an average of 4 children per family ~ significantly more than the average American family.
Be ready to deal with the fallout ~ creation science ~ along with extreme fundamentalism ~ is on the rise and the children being raised in fear, ignornance and strictly sheltered from "the world" are coming of age.
I know because we got into homeschooling and bought the whole package ~ until my oldest daughter (who graduated from homeschool) couldn't take the fear and isolation any more ~ she attempted suicide and that was my wake up call.
No Longer Quivering
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Posted by: Beadmaster on Jul 2, 2009 8:22 AM
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Not even for a laugh would I pay them $22 to be preached at and misinformed. I can think of far better things to buy with that money.
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Posted by: maddy on Jul 2, 2009 8:55 AM
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I mean, really? Cuz that isn't just an ignorance of science, that's an ignorance of basic world history.
The theory of evolution isn't even two hundred years old. Quick: think of all the wars and death that have resulted historically from some religious group forceably removing, converting, enslaving, or just plain killing nonbelievers... Which example pops in your head first?
Off the top of my head: The Crusades? The Spanish Inquisition? The Salem Witch Trials? Columbus? The Trail of Tears? The California Spanish Missions? Southern slavery (justified via the Christian Bible)?
Maybe we should set up a George Carlin museum across the way as a counterpoint. We could begin with his bit about how God is actually THE leading cause of death. It goes something like this:
"You believe in God?"
"No."
Boom, dead.
"You believe in God?"
"Yes."
"You believe in my God?"
"No."
Boom, dead.
Here's a thought: some Christian nutjob from Tennessee shot up a church last year to kill people who didn't agree with him politically. Recently, another right-wing lunatic went into a Holocaust museum to kill some folks as some wouldbe revenge against the Jews. When was the last time we had an evolutionary biologist start shooting up a church because its followers don't "believe" in evolution?
UGH. I need a drink, and it's not even noon.
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Posted by: rickiey on Jul 2, 2009 9:05 AM
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I bet you make fun of the kids in the Special Olympics too, it is an equivalent to what you are doing.
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» Nope. It is the creationist idiots who should be ashamed.
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Posted by: willymack on Jul 2, 2009 9:11 AM
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I've reconciled myself to the fact that there are dummies all around us who are immune to logic, reason, Scientific Method, and the (otherwise) upward progression of the human condition, despite them. I only wish there weren't so MANY of them.
If you haven't already, beg, borrow, or steal Charles P. Pierce's book: "Idiot America" and the DVD of Bill Maher's movie: "Religulous".
You'll laugh 'till you cry.
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Posted by: maddy on Jul 2, 2009 9:19 AM
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Setup: My family is from the same area of Western NY that "produced" Timothy McVeigh, and the protagonist of our story--my uncle--is a member of the militia right.
Sad for me, I know.
Anyway, over our lovely outdoor meal--the usual American barbeque--my uncle announces that the Iraq war wouldn't be so difficult if we just adopted the most obvious solution:
"Use nukes to kill every last one of them and then we can just resettle the area."
The rest of the family nodded or voiced agreement. I, never one to know my place as a woman, quipped, "Yeah, genocide. That's the solution." My mother, quaking with fear, interrupted, "Oh, don't get HER started!" The remainder of the day was preoccupied with me fighting with her--a fight we've had for nearly 2 decades--about why she insists on defending the moronic men in our family who advocate violence as the solution to every problem (micro and macro) and, worse, join them in their attacks on me for trying to speak to some countervision of equity, peace, and a world beyond fear. So, my own stupidity emerges at this point in our story: we both know why she does that, so there's no reason even arguing about it.
Ah, the sanctity of family.
To the point: putting aside the madness of his argument, consider how much scientific ignorance it reveals. He clearly doesn't know that to use enough nuclear firepower to kill every Iraqi would, for one, make Iraq uninhabitable and, for another, would kill millions upon millions of people outside of Iraq's borders, including some of those precious white people he thinks are God's chosen few.
He doesn't know what radioactive fallout is. And he doesn't know that because he doesn't know what an isotope is. Sh**, I'd bet he couldn't tell you an atom is either.
So, to this story about the creationist museum. If the "average" (oh please tell me these people aren't the average) American doesn't know basic science, it can be reduced to this bs about "it's just one opinion against another" or "your belief isn't my belief."
If you don't know what an atom is, you don't know what an isotope is. If you don't know what an isotope is, you can't know what half-life means. And if you don't know what half-life means, you can't understand radioactive carbon dating.
So, if you don't know all that, when a scientist tells you that a dinosaur bone is 650,000 years old (and that no human remains date from that time) you can rest easy in your claim that "that's just his opinion" because you don't know how he figured out the age of the bone in the first place.
I tell ya, in graduate school I was surrounded by humanities academics who, while good-intentioned, thought that the "best" teaching model was one where people sat around sharing their personal experiences all day long. And I would want to rip my hair out of my head: substantive knowledge, including scientific knowledge, matters. And it matters to politics. And it matters to issues of human survival and global suffering.
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Posted by: sausage on Jul 2, 2009 10:20 AM
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I want to thank all the evil corporate bastards who've funded these fundamentalist morons over the years for making it possible that the United States now looks for all the world like one giant hillbilly theme park.
Yee-haw!!
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Posted by: Quist on Jul 2, 2009 6:35 PM
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BTW, the concept of religious faith has been passed on through "indoctrination" for various reasons. Further more, religious faith is a human abstraction passed on by indoctrination. I am still waiting for anyone to demonstate to me that a religious God and/or religious creationist myths truly exists utilizing proof, facts, scientific method, critical thinking, and/or logical reasoning. Until then, I am skeptical at best.
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Posted by: Freticat on Jul 2, 2009 7:58 PM
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What I can't understand is why the appropriately named Ham established a religious foundation based on a British art-rock group that flourished in the 1970s and '80s.
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Posted by: localhost008 on Jul 3, 2009 1:00 AM
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Anyone who goes there for "yucks" (both laughs and perhaps vomiting) should be charged full price.
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Posted by: james_allen on Jul 3, 2009 2:15 AM
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"It's a DIS-belief in God that causes the problems."
This is a common viewpoint: Humans need to believe in God, whether He really exists or not, so that they will be moral (e.g. because they fear God's wrath).
However this view seems to be contrary to the facts. Arabs, Israelis, and right-wing Americans are among the most religious people today, but many would place some of these as among the least moral. (Exclude, e.g., Buddhism which does not depend on a belief in God, let alone His wrath.)
(It's a different topic, but I'm a fan of Julian Jaynes who, very roughly, attributes the origin of religion to a sort of hypnosis needed for the transition to Neolithic society.)
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Posted by: iolanthe on Jul 3, 2009 8:55 AM
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I'm Grandma age, and the mother of several children. I've lived long enough to have seen the medical profession utterly reverse itself on many of its once-cherished tenets, and I know that, in private, most OB/GYNs think this one is utter bullshit.
Yes, fetal alcohol syndrome harms babies. But to develop FAS in your coming child, you have to be pretty much constantly pickled, as in, four or five drinks every day ... or more.
But, in a masterful display of "Cover Your Ass", the medical profession (which, like most of America, craves binary, black-and-white, Manichaean judgments over reason and sanity and *MUCH* more than, say, preaching responsibility and moderation) has decided that *ALL* alcohol consumption is risky.
Light and/or infrequent consumption is not risky.
Enjoy your weekly margarita or glass of wine, as long as you're a person who can stop at one drink.
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Posted by: hahaho on Jul 30, 2009 4:56 AM
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tiffanySo you have to be a complete fucking idiot to vote for the GOP and to actually believe in the validity of their positions.
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Posted by: pelican beak on Jul 2, 2009 12:23 AM
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Fine. Come take it.
I'll take my pride from being part of Earthlife, and from the fact that my reaction to being part of its cancer, humanity, has been cosmically deep embarrassment.
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Posted by: batmagoo on Jul 2, 2009 1:27 AM
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What other like-minded aberrations can we find within a small radius?
When was it built? By whom? Who paid for it? Who goes to see it? Does it make a profit? How does the neighboring community feel about it? Any hints?
It's nice to know how much it cost to build, and what the square footage happens to be, but honestly, what is the point of writing an article on scientific illiteracy and selective information gathering when the writer cannot even do a slightly better job of penning a simple article?
This is why Journalism is sorely needed on the Web.
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Posted by: ESPA on Jul 2, 2009 2:10 AM
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Delusional idiots, all of them (IMHO).
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Posted by: kepstein7777 on Jul 2, 2009 2:35 AM
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It must have been scary for humans to live during the same time that the T Rex was a vegetarian...acting all superior and constantly lecturing everybody about the evils of eating meat.
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Posted by: masthead on Jul 2, 2009 3:52 AM
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its entire “theory” of creationism is based on fake science, the same methods used by other wackaloon institutions like the Templeton Foundation, or the Discovery Institute, that doesn’t like it when you point out their fallacies. The creation museum is on the same level as this business where you can reserve a spot in heaven for $12.95 or 9.95 if you pay cash.
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Jul 2, 2009 3:59 AM
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Why is it considered more 'devote' to study 'God' from mere texts than to utilize the vast evidence of the physical world?
Failing to use the brain capacity we have been granted is doing a disservice to ourselves, the planet and an insult to whatever granted us this magnificant brain.
If 'Eve' is the one who accepted the Management position of 'Gods Green Earth'- I should think the HOLEY Rollers should be praising her name for giving Us the abiliity to not only study this grand 'creation', but revere the 'Creator'.Apparently, If left to 'Adam' we would be Still living in caves, eating raw meat and licking our asses clean.
Thanks Eve!
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Some entrepreneur (the very word raises my hackles) saw a niche market. Would be interesting to know who built this palace of ignorance and for how much?
It is wrong to make money out of lies.
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Posted by: pfgetty on Jul 2, 2009 4:59 AM
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If we can believe that garbage, what protects us from unscrupulous leaders telling us anything at all, and having us believe it?
Well, nothing. Certainly not the press, certainly not our scientific community.
Neither of these institutions have helped us assess and understand that we were lied to about 911. Facts, evidence, science..........all ignored in telling the story about the 19 hijackers.
One day there will be a 911 museum, and a few people will still believe the official story, while scientists and journalists and other "sophistocated" people will stream along its hallways laughing at how stupid people could be to believe the official story nonsense.
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Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Jul 2, 2009 5:30 AM
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I dunno... when the basics of your faith are believe in this particular god or you will burn in hell for all eternity, that seems pretty damned fear based.
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Posted by: Brez on Jul 2, 2009 5:49 AM
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So, I can live forever if I prove I love a zombie called Jesus by practicing ritual cannibalism and vampirism because a talking snake told a rib lady to eat magic fruit so she'd be smarter.
Extracted from the Bible Cliff Notes.
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Posted by: rgd on Jul 2, 2009 6:43 AM
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Contrary to what you or them think, creation and evolution are still theories and neither side is proven to be fact dispite what all the so-called Christians or scientist think. Just because it is in print doesn't mean its true.
How many of us were around 100 years ago let alone 1000 or 1,000,000 years. The professor from Howard isn't the only one shaking his head and rubbing his chin. I'll just bet you God in Heaven is doing the same and asking where in the hell do they come up with this stuff.
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Posted by: chaoslegs on Jul 2, 2009 7:30 AM
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Wasn't the theory of evolution first conceptualized in 1800s? Didn't war, famine and natural disaster exist prior to that time?
Were those horrible things just part of the sin of eating an apple?
Is the theory of evolution another result of the negative consequence of that eating of the apple?
Wasn't that apple the apple of knowledge?
And do we really want to stay ignorant?
Isn't being able to figure things out a consequence of eating the apple?
Is knowledge a sin?
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Posted by: marjani on Jul 2, 2009 7:31 AM
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It's not a belief in evolution that kills us -- God created things to "evolve."
It's a DIS-belief in God that causes the problems. Evolution was instituted by God for everything in life to inherently recreate, regenerate and procreate.
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Posted by: Parcival01 on Jul 2, 2009 7:43 AM
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First, I often post comments in places like YouTube and other web sites. I'm sometimes amazed at what I get in response. (It's usually from those who purport to be "conservative," not necessarily "creationist." Despite centuries of science, academic rigor, legal decisions, the believers in these fairy tales hold on to their beliefs. And their holding on is, to them, a sign of the righteousness of their cause!
(I'm just now listening to an interesting course from the Teaching Company entitled "The Conservative Tradition." From that, I'm beginning to understand where some of this idiotic "reasoning" comes from.)
Anyway, don't immediately discount places like the Creationist Museum, or Orlando's "Holy Land." They DO, alas, have an audience, and they take themselves seriously.
I wish I knew what to do to counter them, but it doesn't do us any good to simply discount them as if they had no influence.
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Posted by: deni_haven on Jul 2, 2009 8:20 AM
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I'm guessing that the majority of the "teachers" whose students tour the creation science museums are homeschooling moms ~ so they're going to be delighted when their kids question evolution.
This article very well expresses the atomosphere and feelings of fear and negativity generated by the creation scientists.
Unfortunately ~ homeschooling is growing ~ exponentially as those who teach their children at home have an average of 4 children per family ~ significantly more than the average American family.
Be ready to deal with the fallout ~ creation science ~ along with extreme fundamentalism ~ is on the rise and the children being raised in fear, ignornance and strictly sheltered from "the world" are coming of age.
I know because we got into homeschooling and bought the whole package ~ until my oldest daughter (who graduated from homeschool) couldn't take the fear and isolation any more ~ she attempted suicide and that was my wake up call.
No Longer Quivering
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Posted by: Beadmaster on Jul 2, 2009 8:22 AM
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Not even for a laugh would I pay them $22 to be preached at and misinformed. I can think of far better things to buy with that money.
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I mean, really? Cuz that isn't just an ignorance of science, that's an ignorance of basic world history.
The theory of evolution isn't even two hundred years old. Quick: think of all the wars and death that have resulted historically from some religious group forceably removing, converting, enslaving, or just plain killing nonbelievers... Which example pops in your head first?
Off the top of my head: The Crusades? The Spanish Inquisition? The Salem Witch Trials? Columbus? The Trail of Tears? The California Spanish Missions? Southern slavery (justified via the Christian Bible)?
Maybe we should set up a George Carlin museum across the way as a counterpoint. We could begin with his bit about how God is actually THE leading cause of death. It goes something like this:
"You believe in God?"
"No."
Boom, dead.
"You believe in God?"
"Yes."
"You believe in my God?"
"No."
Boom, dead.
Here's a thought: some Christian nutjob from Tennessee shot up a church last year to kill people who didn't agree with him politically. Recently, another right-wing lunatic went into a Holocaust museum to kill some folks as some wouldbe revenge against the Jews. When was the last time we had an evolutionary biologist start shooting up a church because its followers don't "believe" in evolution?
UGH. I need a drink, and it's not even noon.
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Posted by: rickiey on Jul 2, 2009 9:05 AM
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I bet you make fun of the kids in the Special Olympics too, it is an equivalent to what you are doing.
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Posted by: willymack on Jul 2, 2009 9:11 AM
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I've reconciled myself to the fact that there are dummies all around us who are immune to logic, reason, Scientific Method, and the (otherwise) upward progression of the human condition, despite them. I only wish there weren't so MANY of them.
If you haven't already, beg, borrow, or steal Charles P. Pierce's book: "Idiot America" and the DVD of Bill Maher's movie: "Religulous".
You'll laugh 'till you cry.
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Posted by: maddy on Jul 2, 2009 9:19 AM
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Setup: My family is from the same area of Western NY that "produced" Timothy McVeigh, and the protagonist of our story--my uncle--is a member of the militia right.
Sad for me, I know.
Anyway, over our lovely outdoor meal--the usual American barbeque--my uncle announces that the Iraq war wouldn't be so difficult if we just adopted the most obvious solution:
"Use nukes to kill every last one of them and then we can just resettle the area."
The rest of the family nodded or voiced agreement. I, never one to know my place as a woman, quipped, "Yeah, genocide. That's the solution." My mother, quaking with fear, interrupted, "Oh, don't get HER started!" The remainder of the day was preoccupied with me fighting with her--a fight we've had for nearly 2 decades--about why she insists on defending the moronic men in our family who advocate violence as the solution to every problem (micro and macro) and, worse, join them in their attacks on me for trying to speak to some countervision of equity, peace, and a world beyond fear. So, my own stupidity emerges at this point in our story: we both know why she does that, so there's no reason even arguing about it.
Ah, the sanctity of family.
To the point: putting aside the madness of his argument, consider how much scientific ignorance it reveals. He clearly doesn't know that to use enough nuclear firepower to kill every Iraqi would, for one, make Iraq uninhabitable and, for another, would kill millions upon millions of people outside of Iraq's borders, including some of those precious white people he thinks are God's chosen few.
He doesn't know what radioactive fallout is. And he doesn't know that because he doesn't know what an isotope is. Sh**, I'd bet he couldn't tell you an atom is either.
So, to this story about the creationist museum. If the "average" (oh please tell me these people aren't the average) American doesn't know basic science, it can be reduced to this bs about "it's just one opinion against another" or "your belief isn't my belief."
If you don't know what an atom is, you don't know what an isotope is. If you don't know what an isotope is, you can't know what half-life means. And if you don't know what half-life means, you can't understand radioactive carbon dating.
So, if you don't know all that, when a scientist tells you that a dinosaur bone is 650,000 years old (and that no human remains date from that time) you can rest easy in your claim that "that's just his opinion" because you don't know how he figured out the age of the bone in the first place.
I tell ya, in graduate school I was surrounded by humanities academics who, while good-intentioned, thought that the "best" teaching model was one where people sat around sharing their personal experiences all day long. And I would want to rip my hair out of my head: substantive knowledge, including scientific knowledge, matters. And it matters to politics. And it matters to issues of human survival and global suffering.
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» RE: Those who don't believe in evolution, don't evolve.
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Posted by: sausage on Jul 2, 2009 10:20 AM
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I want to thank all the evil corporate bastards who've funded these fundamentalist morons over the years for making it possible that the United States now looks for all the world like one giant hillbilly theme park.
Yee-haw!!
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» Another ad hominem reply from TNC.
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» Tell ya how ignorant this country is...
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BTW, the concept of religious faith has been passed on through "indoctrination" for various reasons. Further more, religious faith is a human abstraction passed on by indoctrination. I am still waiting for anyone to demonstate to me that a religious God and/or religious creationist myths truly exists utilizing proof, facts, scientific method, critical thinking, and/or logical reasoning. Until then, I am skeptical at best.
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What I can't understand is why the appropriately named Ham established a religious foundation based on a British art-rock group that flourished in the 1970s and '80s.
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Anyone who goes there for "yucks" (both laughs and perhaps vomiting) should be charged full price.
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Posted by: james_allen on Jul 3, 2009 2:15 AM
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"It's a DIS-belief in God that causes the problems."
This is a common viewpoint: Humans need to believe in God, whether He really exists or not, so that they will be moral (e.g. because they fear God's wrath).
However this view seems to be contrary to the facts. Arabs, Israelis, and right-wing Americans are among the most religious people today, but many would place some of these as among the least moral. (Exclude, e.g., Buddhism which does not depend on a belief in God, let alone His wrath.)
(It's a different topic, but I'm a fan of Julian Jaynes who, very roughly, attributes the origin of religion to a sort of hypnosis needed for the transition to Neolithic society.)
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Posted by: iolanthe on Jul 3, 2009 8:55 AM
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I'm Grandma age, and the mother of several children. I've lived long enough to have seen the medical profession utterly reverse itself on many of its once-cherished tenets, and I know that, in private, most OB/GYNs think this one is utter bullshit.
Yes, fetal alcohol syndrome harms babies. But to develop FAS in your coming child, you have to be pretty much constantly pickled, as in, four or five drinks every day ... or more.
But, in a masterful display of "Cover Your Ass", the medical profession (which, like most of America, craves binary, black-and-white, Manichaean judgments over reason and sanity and *MUCH* more than, say, preaching responsibility and moderation) has decided that *ALL* alcohol consumption is risky.
Light and/or infrequent consumption is not risky.
Enjoy your weekly margarita or glass of wine, as long as you're a person who can stop at one drink.
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"Step right up, Folks! See the amazing dinosaurs cavorting in the Garden of Eden as Earth's Very First Family breaks God's immutable law with tragic consequences for all of humanity. Hurry, hurry, hurry, step right up!"
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*starts making phone calls*
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