..... 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."
Am I the only one who sees this behavior for what it is? This is a group of people intentionally entering a museum for the purpose of disrupting the presentation of scientific information that the disruptors find offensive. They aren't there to learn anything, and they surely aren't there to change the mind of the retired biologist.
What these cretins are doing is tantamount to a biology professor walking into the disruptor's church and tossing a turd in the Holy Water.
The proper response to these people is to throw them out of the museum, and arrest them for trespassing if they return. If they want to preach their insane version of science, let them build their own museum.... or better still, let them spew it in their church, from whence this abomination of science came.
What they did was comparable to visiting a "learn about Christianity" forum and asking lots of critical questions.
Questioning a museum worker is not sacrilege, and they didn't throw crap.
You people are really unbalanced.
I'd have the docent say "I'm here to explain the exhibits. If you have a problem with that please leave."
If they don't leave, call security.