NY Times reviews AiG's "museum"
Fri, 2007-05-25 00:10
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NY Times reviews AiG's "museum"
Fri, 2007-05-25 00:10
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[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html?em&ex=1180152000&en=3... and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs[/url]
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The other catastrophe, in the museum’s view, is of more recent vintage: the abandonment of the Bible by church figures who began to treat the story of creation as if it were merely metaphorical, and by Enlightenment philosophers, who chipped away at biblical authority. The ministry believes this is a slippery slope.Start accepting evolution or an ancient Earth, and the result is like the giant wrecking ball, labeled “Millions of Years,” that is shown smashing the ground at the foundation of a church, the cracks reaching across the gallery to a model of a home in which videos demonstrate the imminence of moral dissolution. A teenager is shown sitting at a computer; he is, we are told, looking at pornography.
I always knew those damn geologists were responsible for the rise of internet pr0n!
Fri, 2007-05-25 00:12
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The LA Times is a little more harsh in [url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-round24may24,1,7795... review[/url]
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Yabba-dabba science
Note to would-be Creation Museum visitors: the Earth is round.
May 24, 2007THE CREATION MUSEUM, a $27-million tourist attraction promoting earth science theories that were popular when Columbus set sail, opens near Cincinnati on Memorial Day. So before the first visitor risks succumbing to the museum's animatronic balderdash — dinosaurs and humans actually coexisted! the Grand Canyon was carved by the great flood described in Genesis! — we'd like to clear up a few things: "The Flintstones" is a cartoon, not a documentary. Fred and Wilma? Those woolly mammoth vacuum cleaners? All make-believe.
Science is under assault, and that calls for bold truths. Here's another: The Earth is round.
Fri, 2007-05-25 05:22
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Oh, never mind...
Thought it said "NY Times review's
Ali G's 'museum'".
(which would be about as scientifically accurate, actually...)
Fri, 2007-05-25 05:29
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Cincinati eh? Maybe I'll go visit.
That won't be too far from where I'll live next year.
As science becomes more and more complex, it will more and more confound out preconceptions, and there's going to be more and more "controversies" in the media. The global warming debate is a lot like creationism, only admittedly there's a lot more evidence for evolution than global warming. Just last week, I got the impression some people here believed in environmental determinism.
Fri, 2007-05-25 05:33
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What is 'environmental determinism'?
Fri, 2007-05-25 08:59
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Maysie
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"The Flintstones" is a cartoon, not a documentary. Fred and Wilma? Those woolly mammoth vacuum cleaners? All make-believe.
What? [img]eek.gif" border="0[/img]
Well, there goes my belief system. I was just going to do a search on e-bay for one of those bird-needle turntables.... [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]
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Science is under assault, and that calls for bold truths. Here's another: The Earth is round.
When I took Grade 10 geometry I used the same parameters of "Right Angle Theory" to make up my "Flat Earth Theory" as a joke to the dumbwads who had a much lower profile in those days. I loved causing trouble in math class.
Thu, 2007-06-07 03:05
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Heh. That's a pretty geeky way to cause trouble in math class, bcg, gotta tell you. [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]
I liked our way of causing trouble in math class when I was in grade nine. We had a brilliant teacher who should probably have been in a university somewhere, but there he was, teaching grade 9 math in a backwoods school. He would go off on tangents - as in, "Today we'll discuss the Pythagorean Theorum," and then go off into a big long historical discussion about Pythagorus and the times he lived in, and some of his philosophy, and what ancient Greece was like, and then the discussion would veer off depending on what other side discussions came up.
Anyhow, it got so that the students would try to get him off topic because it was so easy to do.
The problem with this was that students like me, for whom math did not come easily, just didn't learn the lesson for that day. That was the start of my downward spiral in math, a subject I was never overly good at to begin with.