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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Strange post; I read it both up and down, and though I started at the top, I can't get to the bottom of it.
And on the eight day God said, Let there be open mindedness.
Collectively known as, "people whom Doctor Stochastic doesn't like, for whatever reason".
"Strange post; I read it both up and down, and though I started at the top, I can't get to the bottom of it."
I guess I should have put a different spin on it, then.
I have a difficult time dealing with people who can't accept ambiguity and uncertainty in life.
I never worry about things like whether Israel should be able to defend itself. I worry about what is the best policy in the long run. For me the long run is 500 years or so. I think about the war on terror as a 70 year operation, or longer. I'm pretty sure Bush does also.
Could be. It's an older photo, probably from the late 80's. Maybe it was badly scanned.
Well then, that's a horse of a different color. 'Course, this whole exchange has left an odd flavor in my mouth.
And I understand that after having people repeatedly 'go off' on a person, that person might get to the point of 'going off' themselves.
don't take this the wrong way... i'm just playing the antagonist
why did the hominids die?
Well, since I can't be in two places at the same time, I must leave my computer for happy hour. It's uncertain, however. I could be here. I could be there. A guy just never knows.
She looks like a heterosexual Janet Reno.
Some got ate, some had accidents, and some passed away in their sleep.
no.
Hillary.
'nuff sed.
Heavy, man... heavy...
"why did the hominids die?"
Well, Fred had a sudden heart attack, and Ethel died suddenly of an aneurism in her brain.
The darned Homos slaughtered Fred and Ethel's children in a battle over a gemsbok, if I remember correctly.
And that was the end of the line for the Hominid family. The family name is now gone, lost forever in history.
The Sapiens family, however, did well enough. The grandparents got a condo in Florida. Dad and Mom are getting ready to retire from their family business, and Junior is taking it over. Sue married a dentist, and is living in Brooklyn.
The only disappointment was with little Jack. Last anyone heard, he was smoking a lot of crack and was living somewhere in the Bowery.
Sad thing about those Hominids.
You know it, bubba.
It's the same for religion in the public classroom. What's the problem with teaching the Bible (or any other religion) under the context of "Christians believe that..."? Then you're not indoctrinating, you're teaching religion.
I agree with the sentiment here but I don't think the context is as implied as you think it is. *cough*Global Warming*cough* On the other hand, I know they have to walk a narrow line between giving students a healthy level of skepticism without making them think science doesn't offer any answers.
I notice that more and more on the web. Makes me think the old eyes are going, except everything else still looks OK.
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