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Loading...And On The Seventh Day God Created A Museum
- by Judy Molland
- September 2, 2012
- 5:30 pm
Curious as to who “these people” might be, I checked out the hall of fame website, and discovered that it honors 104 deceased male scientists including Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Faraday and Guglielmo Marconi. To explain why these individuals are included, the site excerpts biography information from the book “Men of Science, Men of God,” written by a man widely recognized as the father of creationism, Henry Morris.
Hmm, I’m pretty sure these dead white males would not have agreed to be a part of this endeavor.
It turns out that not everyone in Kentucky is thrilled about these developments. Last year, the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority granted more than $40 million in tax incentives for the planned $172 million Ark Encounter. At the same time, they cut millions of dollars for education.
Let’s give the last word to Bill Nye and his awesome Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children video:
Denial of evolution is unique to the U.S. The U.S. is where most of the innovation still happens. When you have a portion of the population that doesn’t believe in evolution, it holds everyone back. Evolution is the fundamental idea of all of life science. It’s like trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You’re just not going to get the right answer. It makes everything more complicated.
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I say to the grown-ups: If you want to deny evolution and live in a world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it — we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
It would be easy to dismiss the notion of creationism as belonging to the lunatic fringe, but it’s not. Anti-evolution bills have been introduced this year in at least six states, and in 2008 Louisiana passed a bill that gives teachers license to equate creationism with evolution.
Is the United States the laughing stock of the world yet?
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"The ability to prove what was once fact into fiction," Russell, is not nearly a logical sentence. I believe you meant "to turn," rather than prove. I could be mistaken about that, but yes, science can turn what was once believed to be fact, on its head. This is one of the great things about science: that new evidence can disprove what had been thought to be solid fact. The issue is the idea that something was "once THOUGHT to be" solid fact. Today's "facts" are often tomorrows discarded ideas, but only due to new evidence. Facts ought to really be called "Facts, as per current evidence." Science is built on testable hypotheses, not imaginings. See my old comment, the 4th one below yours of Nov. 23, 2012.
Russel...you have GOT to be kidding!
Please tell me you're joking when you say that science turns fact into fiction.
If not....PLEASE tell me you don't have children.....Please!
Just how much of science do you deny?
And when do you say...."STOP....I might believe that there's gravity and medicine and propulsion and physics.....but, NOW....I SAY STOP! "SCIENCE DESTROYS TRUTH."
Really?
Science - the ability to prove what was once fact into fiction
Science - still searching for the end of the Universe
etc. etc. etc.....................
It's hard to take anything James H. says about Cro-Magnon man seriously when he continues to refer to him as "Cro-Magnum" man! Perhaps James H. has been drinking a few too many "magnums" while posting his inane comments.
it's sad and frightening really. Some people will believe anything. get em' when they are young and the poor fools don't stand a chance :/
Holy moley! Wacko comments out in force! Jane Goodall??? Too crazy to even comment on... no wonder no one knows much about it.
The fellow who started the Creationist Museum in Kentucky, was taped, in an interview with Ted Koppel, of "NIghtline," saying that when I saw that the evidence for evolution was becoming overwhelming (his word, not mine, not Koppel's), he knew he had to do something!!
Again, YES, when the evidence is overwhelming, the smart thing to do is discount it in its entirety, and BURY YOUR HEAD STILL DEEPER IN THE SAND!
This whole thing is a farce, and people are home schooling in order to be able to shove it down the throats of their children, unadulterated by "evidence." Battles are going on around the country about "equal time" in school curricula. Equal time is not what one gives to hypotheses that have been found, by examining the evidence, evidence now of 150+ years, to have failed.
Can you see gravity? Have you experienced a gravitational wave? There is a theory of gravity, it's something of an hypotheses,but I hear no one, yet, saying that we need to give equal time to the idea that someone can throw a ball up with such force that it will not come down. Now, maybe that is a simplistic example, but I believe that the concept holds.
Now, unfortunately, MONEY is creeping into the picture, and Kentucky is proudly on the verge of becoming a world wide laughing stock.
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