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This article describes a visit to the "Creation Museum" by PZ Myers:
scienceblogs.com/pharyngul...seum_1.php
Here are a few quotes from the article:
"This was not a museum: it is a haunted house. It is a carnival ride. It shows throughout in the layout — the rubes are supposed to be shuttled through efficiently, get their little thrills, and exit so the next group can make the trip. If they'd had a few million more, I imagine they would have invested in tracks and little cars and turned it into the Creation Ride."...
"I suppose it works well for the gullible attendees, but for those of us looking for some ideas with which to wrestle, the impression left is one of credulous vacuity. It's an empty "museum", with no real ideas, no evidence, just a collection of props to illustrate an unquestioned myth.
When they do make plain statements that contradict the science, they don't bother to provide a reason to accept their view over the scientific one — reason is the enemy, you may recall. It's enough to simply declare that this is GOD'S WORD, therefore it is true. Never mind that it is only one narrow interpretation of their god's awesomely vague words, that many of their fellow Christians can interpret it differently, or that the evidence of nature (which, presumably, is their god's creation) says something completely different. It is simply no problem to declare that human affinities to other animals are not real, we are unique and unchanging, and that divergence (of a very limited sort) only happens to animals. It is a simple-minded absolutism that relies on ignorance."
"At the Creation "Museum", one of the jobs of the guards is to suppress criticism. They hover about in rather conspicuous uniforms, armed with tasers, and some use police dogs to check out the visitors. They don't want dissent expressed in their building, and they admit it themselves."
scienceblogs.com/pharyngul...seum_1.php
Here are a few quotes from the article:
"This was not a museum: it is a haunted house. It is a carnival ride. It shows throughout in the layout — the rubes are supposed to be shuttled through efficiently, get their little thrills, and exit so the next group can make the trip. If they'd had a few million more, I imagine they would have invested in tracks and little cars and turned it into the Creation Ride."...
"I suppose it works well for the gullible attendees, but for those of us looking for some ideas with which to wrestle, the impression left is one of credulous vacuity. It's an empty "museum", with no real ideas, no evidence, just a collection of props to illustrate an unquestioned myth.
When they do make plain statements that contradict the science, they don't bother to provide a reason to accept their view over the scientific one — reason is the enemy, you may recall. It's enough to simply declare that this is GOD'S WORD, therefore it is true. Never mind that it is only one narrow interpretation of their god's awesomely vague words, that many of their fellow Christians can interpret it differently, or that the evidence of nature (which, presumably, is their god's creation) says something completely different. It is simply no problem to declare that human affinities to other animals are not real, we are unique and unchanging, and that divergence (of a very limited sort) only happens to animals. It is a simple-minded absolutism that relies on ignorance."
"At the Creation "Museum", one of the jobs of the guards is to suppress criticism. They hover about in rather conspicuous uniforms, armed with tasers, and some use police dogs to check out the visitors. They don't want dissent expressed in their building, and they admit it themselves."
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Re: Creation Museum
Mon, August 24, 2009 - 1:25 PMRene, these piece is garbage. If you had visited the museum, as I have on numerous occasions, you would know this.
"but for those of us looking for some ideas with which to wrestle, the impression left is one of credulous vacuity. "
This person is not looking for ideas. He came with a full compliment of them and viewed everything through them, leaving just as he came in. Had I given him the tour, he would undoubtedly left with a few ideas....
"It's an empty "museum", with no real ideas, no evidence, just a collection of props to illustrate an unquestioned myth."
The museum illustrates clearly and persuasively what I have been saying all along. This is not a debate about science so much as it is about world views. On the surface, one can see why a person steeped in evolutionary mythology would find its conclusions convincing. But once one digs beneath the thin veneer, the case evaporates more quickly than a drop of water on a hot griddle.
"When they do make plain statements that contradict the science,"
They make no statements which contradict the science. The science (data) is not in question in most instances, what is in question are the conclusions, extrapolations and fairy tailing of the advocates of evolutionism.
"At the Creation "Museum", one of the jobs of the guards is to suppress criticism."
absurd. Does one really need to question why security are necessary in a public museum in todays world? I have never noticed any overbearing security, except when I came into the parking lot a little fast and was warned about the little children which may dart across the street. There are been internet threats to blow up the place by left leaing wacko's, so obviously we all want to feel safe while we are learning the truth and correcting misconceptions, like those of this author.
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Re: Creation Museum
Mon, August 24, 2009 - 4:05 PM>>"This is not a debate about science so much as it is about world views."<<
You keep saying that Dan, but saying it does not make it true. There is no science in "creation science" or in your favorite museum.
Here is a good report on the same visit by one of the three hundred students, talking about what she "learned" at the museum, which makes this clear:
pnrj.xanga.com/709441435/...ion-museum/
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Re: Creation Museum
Mon, August 24, 2009 - 5:25 PMAnother priceless post from the intellectual dust bin. -
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Re: Creation Museum
Tue, August 25, 2009 - 6:23 AMthen why did you bother to post it?
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Re: Creation Museum
Tue, October 6, 2009 - 3:30 AMI've been reading you comments for 2 days now & all you ever do is blame people for there short sightedness to your religion. I'm starting to believe you are the one completely oblivious to any outside idea other then your own. i believe the word "hypocrite" suits you nicely. ;)
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