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06-19-2007, 03:14 PM
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June 17, 2007
10:21:04 pm, Categories: I.D. and Creationism, Education, 416 words
Evolution: Unbelievably amazing or amazingly unbelievable?
I think evolution is probably the most astonishing idea, force, phenomenon, what have you, in all of science. You might even say I'm an evolution superfan--when other kids were getting Nintendos for Christmas, my parents were handing out chapters from the canon of Stephen Jay Gould.
That's why I was more than a little surprised to discover that there is an organization whose entire membership finds evolution even more incredible than I do!
What's more, the members of this group are so intent on sharing their astonishment that they have built an entire museum in homage to their inability to wrap their minds around the stone-cold amazing chain of events that began with self-replicating molecules and continues with the unfathomable diversity of life on Earth we see today.
The folks in question have given themselves the name Answers in Genesis, and their Mecca is the brand spanking new Creation Museum in Ohio Kentucky. (Unofficial motto: "Were you aware that humans rode dinosaurs like they were ponies? Well they did.")
Forget the preposterousness of a 6,000 year old Earth for a second--what's really incredible is that, if the degree to which the exhibits in this museum resemble those in traditional natural history museums is any measure, unlike the creationists of yore, these folks have apparently read at least one biology textbook, and may have even visited one of the secular institutions whose look and delivery they are parroting.
That is, having examined the facts, or at least a subset of them, the makers of this institution have concluded that when it comes to the likelihood that the four billion year long pageantry of life played out as scientists claim it has, their verdict is "No. Effing. Way."
I applaud the skeptical impulse wherever it rears its head, and only wish these fine people the intellectual fortitude to apply that same level of discernment to their own received wisdom...
And that's just a taste. If you are the least bit horrified by the prospect of a slick, visually appealing, and internally coherent (in contrast to, you know, coherent) "science" museum that is targeted at kids; a place that, across the many years it will be with us, will be an instrument of systematic intellectual and scientific fraud in the lives of millions of people, I really, really think you might want to check this out:
June 17, 2007
10:21:04 pm, Categories: I.D. and Creationism, Education, 416 words
Evolution: Unbelievably amazing or amazingly unbelievable?
I think evolution is probably the most astonishing idea, force, phenomenon, what have you, in all of science. You might even say I'm an evolution superfan--when other kids were getting Nintendos for Christmas, my parents were handing out chapters from the canon of Stephen Jay Gould.
That's why I was more than a little surprised to discover that there is an organization whose entire membership finds evolution even more incredible than I do!
What's more, the members of this group are so intent on sharing their astonishment that they have built an entire museum in homage to their inability to wrap their minds around the stone-cold amazing chain of events that began with self-replicating molecules and continues with the unfathomable diversity of life on Earth we see today.
The folks in question have given themselves the name Answers in Genesis, and their Mecca is the brand spanking new Creation Museum in Ohio Kentucky. (Unofficial motto: "Were you aware that humans rode dinosaurs like they were ponies? Well they did.")
Forget the preposterousness of a 6,000 year old Earth for a second--what's really incredible is that, if the degree to which the exhibits in this museum resemble those in traditional natural history museums is any measure, unlike the creationists of yore, these folks have apparently read at least one biology textbook, and may have even visited one of the secular institutions whose look and delivery they are parroting.
That is, having examined the facts, or at least a subset of them, the makers of this institution have concluded that when it comes to the likelihood that the four billion year long pageantry of life played out as scientists claim it has, their verdict is "No. Effing. Way."
I applaud the skeptical impulse wherever it rears its head, and only wish these fine people the intellectual fortitude to apply that same level of discernment to their own received wisdom...
And that's just a taste. If you are the least bit horrified by the prospect of a slick, visually appealing, and internally coherent (in contrast to, you know, coherent) "science" museum that is targeted at kids; a place that, across the many years it will be with us, will be an instrument of systematic intellectual and scientific fraud in the lives of millions of people, I really, really think you might want to check this out: