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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Ah, so the secret weapon isn't so secret anymore.
I think you should be promoted to a member of Black-Ops in Darwin Central's Geology Division. You can then wander the dark dusty halls of the Noachian Flood 'Geologists'.
I descended from an ape
It's a new field at ORU - ID/GYN
Sorry, not physically attractive, but I'd like to get close to what's in her head.
And they say evos have no sense of humor.
I am an ape.
lol had to laugh at your post.. but... please don't confuse the Elite know it alls with facts.
It makes their heads hurt and pisses them off that you won't squeeze yourself into their neat little "Scientific Universe"
Grand response Owl :)
Where did you find out about that department? (that Darwin Central funds from a slush-budget). Now we've got to decide whether to make you disappear into one of Paleo-Fake-Division's archeopteryx digs or recruit you (and I doubt that Patrick will release the budget for recruitment, frankly)
It is Top Secret that the angular unconformity under the Grand Canyon was one of our more major construction projects (it was a bitch getting all those strata to tip up and slide without disturbing the overburden, I can tell you). But I'm working on getting a promotion to the Varves Manufacture/Brittle Cone section. That's where all the real action is.
Luckily he didn't. His post was largely a fact-free zone.
Name one fossil (with documented proof) that supports your allegation.
You can't, because no fossil record exists to support ANY theory of Evolution. There is no link, there never has been a link and there never WILL be a link.
Except for the Missing one.
Evolution is a theory and until such time as fossilized proof can be shown to the world, it will remain only a theory.
The real action is where you'd never think to look. That's how it is with truly secret conspiracies.
Unfortunately, the same folks that say we have no sense of humor would be unable to get the humor of that post.
"I'm asserting that ID may be a superior explanation of how life came to exist on Earth."
I try to catch these as they fly by.
Evolution has nothing to do with how life came to exist on Earth.
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"...It's a theory. And that's why they are looking for evidence to support it..."
ID is not a scientific theory. Hypothesis maybe, theory, no.
And you don't make up a theory or a hypothesis and look for evidence to bqack itup. You look at the dataand formulate the best theory you can to cover it all.
Camel's noses and tents come to mind.
ID explains everything, I agree. What specifically, does it predict?
Hydrology, teach the Controversy!
I read your post three times and have decided that if there appears to be any difference in perspective between my view on this and yours it's because I wasn't writing clearly.
All the world's a slippery slope. People need to learn to deal with it.
I wasn't trying to disagree with you. Just the faith alone jockeys.
Next is repair of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project, or is that too hard or even worth the candle?
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