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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Pretty much. You seem to be on the road yourself.
It's not like his finches have hybridized from 14 to 6, right?
Huh? 14 what to 6 what?
Well, at least we have fosil evidence that traces man back to apes. We don't?
Well, at least there's evidence of one species evolving from another and that by logical extention- oh, we don't have that either?
Pretty funny, we usually only see this kind of behavior from evolutionist. Looks like the creationist are joining in the fun. Of course, this kind of behavior never solves anything, whether discussing science or sports.
It shouldn't. But mobbing a docent of a museum is on par with the anti-American thugs who mob Friends of the Border gatherings.
This crap is just idiotic grandstanding. If these people were really interested in questioning these scientific concepts, they should attend classes at the local college and discuss it with an instructor.
...but I guess that wouldn't get any press, now would it?
Yikes sorry...well at least I agreed!
Is the Platypus evidence of a beaver evolving into a duck, or a duck evolving into a beaver?
You've lifted a phrase without respect to its context. The "settled precepts of science" include the Scientific Method...a self-correcting discipline of research. The phrase does not mean that the book is closed by any means on the theories of our origins. As we accumulate more data, hypotheses and theories are refined, redefined, or discarded as needed.
Excuse me, when havee evolutionist ever mobbed a church Sunday school class that teaches creationism, or a Bible college, or anything? Name ONE incident.
Yeah, I sure remember the last time I was in church and an evolutionist crashed the service by challenging the book of Genesis.
Waitaminute...that was just a figment of imagination. Just like your claim.
Evolutionists have no idea why inert molecules should ever feel "compelled" to reproduce at all. Why bother consuming energy to create copies of a string of molecules? What is the force that 'forces" this to happen?
Elaborate and intricate processes that require the storage and release of energy in order to reproduce themselves require a motive force.
Once started, why continue? There is a motive force behind life.
"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe -- a spirit vastly superior to that of man." -- Albert Einstein
"Religion is taught as dogma. Science relies on observation, evidence, and testing of hypotheses. A very clear distinction."
Well except for the whole Global Warming business.
And teaching of Nazi scientists regarding lesser races.
And phrenology.
And doctors who study "harms" of silcone breast implants, mold, dairy products or whatever the liberal boogeyman of the day is.
Note I am not saying evolution is junk science by any stretch --- just pointing out that scientist are people and they have their dogmas and boogeymen, too.
Ask the president (former president?) of Harvard.
Neither. God had some extra parts left over, so He stuck 'em on a variety of animals "Down Under". ;)
That must be one huge building.
Thank God.
That must be one huge building.
It's almost as big as my seashell collection. Y'seen it? I keep it at the shore.
Actually, I think a majority of scientists at Harvard supported him. Steven Pinker, bête noire of the IDers around here, backed Summers strongly.
"Is the Platypus evidence of a beaver evolving into a duck, or a duck evolving into a beaver?"
"scientist are people and they have their dogmas and boogeymen, too."
Good point. That's why I get so irritated with junk science even when I agree with a theory, it tends to obscure good science.
Quite true, but ethical scientists strive to eliminate bias. Most clergy I have encountered are completely closed to notions or concepts other than what they learned in seminary.
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