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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Hey now!
Are you saying that a museum is the equivalent of an evolutionists church? Interesting.
Ah, the old jwalsh07 style of 'honest debate'. The claim was not made that Bush believes that evolution never happens. The claim was made that Bush (like many Americans) does not 'accept evolution'. And he does not, at least not in the sense that the scientific community accepts evolution. The scientific community does not agree that ID is scientific alternative to evolution, or that there is a real debate about it. Bush does. And since the question was from a science reporter to the MIT President, I think it's reasonable to take that as the context.
Please provide a quote from President Bush stating that human activity has no effect on Earths climate
Bush clearly does not, or did not at that time, accept it as an established scientific finding that human activity was affecting the earth's climate.
And to save time, lets agree that failing to provide such quotes, which don't exist, this woman is a story teller in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm, OK?
No, let's accept you're trying to lawyer your way out of some unfortunate facts. As usual.
If the creationists are correct, the evolutionists will have eternity to reflect upon their miscalculations.
If the evolutionists are correct, we will all just cease to exist when we die.
The questioners were a "mob" in the original sense of "the uncultured and illiterate as a class" OED late 17th century
Hope this helps.
Pascal's Wager. There are many problems with the logic. For starters, it is a false dichotomy. Both could be wrong - maybe life was created by Allah or Odin.
LOL, you should be ashamed of yourself. Not one quote confirming this particular left wing New York Times lunatic assertions about Bush but bs aplenty.
The blonde is the creationist
In most cases...Evos reduce it to the Big Bang and such.
That is some sort of creation deal.
The dogma is in the plates and readouts while they tour you around, so he/she is spreading the Evo deal.
And to keep the record straight Professor, I'm a blue collar guy, not a lawyer. I know bs when I see it and your defense of this leftist twits leading question is just that, bs. In fact, it is so much bs, I'm thinking of starting a whole new thread entitled Freeper Right Wing Professors Use of BS to Defend New York Times Twit Lying About Bush.
Good title?
Are you saying that a museum is the equivalent of an evolutionists church? Interesting.
I think an argument could be made for this assertion.
I know! I know! "Pick a language and stick to it." Baissez mon cul, Gendarmes de Langue!
You ever read the Koran (Qu'ran)?
I don't think so.
However, some say the word "God" is just on languages expression for the Supreme Being.
There are some that say Allah is just arabic for the God of the Bible BEFORE Muhammed, and that he just redefined the whole picture.
In retrospect, I guess I should've pinged you...
The "I don't think so" does not refer to your having or not read the Koran.
It refers to Allah, in the Islamic sense, being the creator of all we know. I don't think so, except if the name truly originates from some arabic languages to address the God of the Bible.
Anybody out there know of such origination research?
No. That's not what I'm saying.
That is wonderful, but that doesn't make it right.
Remember the dude who helped roast Clinton in Arkansas, and then became a flaming homosexual liberal?
If Denton has flipped sides, what does that really prove, other than he has changed his mind.
Perhaps he got tired of the evos telling him "you are no longer a scientist" and being cast into the outer darkness the evos prepare for all they disagree with.
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