Posted on 09/20/2005 7:02:45 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
ITHACA, N.Y. - Lenore Durkee, a retired biology professor, was volunteering as a docent at the Museum of the Earth here when she was confronted by a group of seven or eight people, creationists eager to challenge the museum exhibitions on evolution.
They peppered Dr. Durkee with questions about everything from techniques for dating fossils to the second law of thermodynamics, their queries coming so thick and fast that she found it hard to reply.
After about 45 minutes, "I told them I needed to take a break," she recalled. "My mouth was dry."
That encounter and others like it provided the impetus for a training session here in August. Dr. Durkee and scores of other volunteers and staff members from the museum and elsewhere crowded into a meeting room to hear advice from the museum director, Warren D. Allmon, on ways to deal with visitors who reject settled precepts of science on religious grounds.
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"Maybe someone should have told you that this was a Conservative forum."
This is a conservative political forum. Conservatism says nothing about evolution, which is not a political question. Conservatives are not all Christians, as you may note as you read these threads. Conservatives do not all believe that evolution is an incorrect theory.
You've somehow confabulated conservatism with something it is not.
Now, did you have something to add to the discussion, which involves evolution and whether it is proper to browbeat a museum docent?
Conservative != creationist.
Conservative placemarker.
However, it is a testable hypothesis.
The set of those who know that is rapidly diminishing.
Is the prof feeding you a line (0001010), or lining you a feed (0101000)?
Science appeals to the conservative mind. It's reality based, it sticks with what works, it rejects the debunked, and it produces results.
"Science appeals to the conservative mind. It's reality based, it sticks with what works, it rejects the debunked, and it produces results."
Indeed. There are those, however, on this forum, who believe that one must be a KJV-only, born-again, fundamentalist, evangelical Christian to claim conservatism. I find that belief not in keeping with the goals of this forum.
I find it amusing that someone, like myself, who believes that the Theory of Evolution is the best current explanation for speciation is held by the above-described folks to be non-conservative politically.
YES!! (You did NOT turn off momentum!)
Prove it. See mach's conjecture.
Poor Elsie! You tried, but were thwarted by the vagaries of chance and the imprecise nature of the internet.
It was fun, though, to watch the battle.
Not with my aliens. If you found evidence, they would make you forget it. I suppose I should admit that I've been using hiding the fact that they are really invisible pink flamingos. But I get tired of explaining how I know they're pink.
Ah, you succeeded, and quietly, too. Bravo!
Two words: hidden camera.
You think my invisible pink flamingos don't know about your camera? They know about that other one, too.
Take photographs of the room on Day 1. Entrust those photographs to a third party to secret in a secure location known only to him.
Take photographs of the room on Day 2. Compare those photographs to the ones in the possession of the third party.
Catch evil invisible pink flamingos in the act!
That might work if you remembered the camera and film, but you forgot that they modified your memory, didn't you?
What were we talking about? I'm drawing a blank...
I was just testing whether I could post more spam than the creationists.
Oral Roberts says He's 900 ft tall. Benny Hinn says He walks into his bedroom and rearranges his socks. Jimmy Swaggart says He talks dirty. Jim Bakker says He commanded him into the theme park business.
What a whacky deity!
FYI, I've never personally claimed that a public school should spend an entire semester talking about ID. I've said that I think that public schools should spend a class talking about ID and the limits of the theory of evolution and then teach evolution. And that religion is so important to so many Americans and this issue is so divisive in schools suggests to me that ID is worthy of discussion. Of course my own personal preference is school vouchers, which would also help resolve the problem.
"What does His voice sound like? Does He smoke a cigar?"
Of course he smokes a cigar. A Cuban cigar. He's sort of short and balding, and has a gravelly voice.
"Say goodnight, Gracie."
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