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Posted on 10/16/2005 12:02:32 PM PDT by gobucks
Natural history museums around the country are mounting new exhibits they hope will succeed where high school biology classes have faltered: convincing Americans that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is a rigorously tested cornerstone of modern science.
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"I think everyone is realizing that we need to be doing a great deal more. We just haven't made the effort to communicate evolution to people in terms they can understand. Evolution is exciting," Diamond said.
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"One of the big misunderstandings, I think, is that a lot of people have stopped realizing that science is a secular activity," said Lance Grande. Field's $17 million, 20,000-square foot, "Evolving Planet" exhibit is slated to open on March 10, 2006.
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"In many ways, I blame science itself in that we have done a terrible job of explaining what science is," said Leonard Krishtalka of ... Kansas in Lawrence.
"I would imagine to non-scientists a lot of science and technology sounds like so much magic," he said. "Is it any surprise that so many people are choosing one kind of magic over another kind of magic?"
In an effort to deepen visitors' understanding of evolution, the Field Museum has designed "Evolving Planet" to showcase dinosaurs without allowing them to overshadow everything else. In past evolution exhibits, McCarter said, people "whipped through the origin of life, and everything before the dinosaurs, to go look at the dinosaurs. And by the time they got done looking at the dinosaurs, they were so tired that they whipped out."
This time, he said, "we're using the dinosaurs as kind of the marquee to draw them in and saying, this is a very complicated story, which you've got to dig into over a long period of time."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
"It is absolutely true that if we evolved as popularly claimed, then there are no moral absolutes and we are an accidental mish-mash of carbon."
So YOU say.
Good catch. No need to wait 20 years.
Take moths for instance, within a population some were lighter and some were darker. When the trees were lighter the lighter ones blended in better, and the birds ate the darker ones. When the trees became darker the lighter moths were easy pickings. The population in this case shifted from predominately being lighter to being darker. Over time the variation in the population was noted. In this case the change in the population occurred because the birds ate more of one shade of the moths and the darker ones were more likely to reproduce.
Competition is always not welcome to monopolists.
...or starving and dehydrating a woman to death, for that matter?
I totally agree with your assessment. Great comment.
Harry HoudiniDidit placemark
No. I think Havoc has you beat by a mile.
I'm sorry, perhaps I did not express my question clearly.
You explained a possible -result- of variation. My question refers to how the variation happens in the first place.
Y'know, it's not the fact that they agree that's so bad, it's their willingness to ally themselves.
That's downright scary.
I like how spirited your response to these 'conservatives' who so longingly and free spiritedly trust what the leftist gov't funded whackos at leftist pantheons are doing w/ 'science'.
Your dog is absolutely a cutie.
And to CreaIDs barely able to understand the operation of a hammer, all science looks like magic.
"I carried with me some promethean matches, which I ignited by biting; it was thought so wonderful that a man should strike fire with his teeth, that it was usual to collect the whole family to see it"
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"When he read, however, my passport, which began with "El Naturalista Don Carlos," his respect and civility were as unbounded as his suspicions ahd been before."
Charles Darwin, in South America
No she's not. This is a Creat folktale from the distant past.
i guess the big question is whether the museums are going to design their displays very carefully or just throw something together to see what happens over time...
teeman
LOL.
You know, if the exhibits become 'permanent', doesn't that make a "museum" something else? A war memorial perhaps?
Evolutionary theory--non-living matter to man in 4 billion years--and belief in Almighty God are incompatible. Take your pick.
"Evolutionary theory--non-living matter to man in 4 billion years--and belief in Almighty God are incompatible. Take your pick."
1) Evolutionary theory does not deal with the origins of the universe, or of life. So your scientific ignorance is immense.
2) It is just YOUR assertion that belief in God is incompatible with evolution (which you have already shown you know nothing about). Most evolutionists believe in God.
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Well the "Kansas Conservatives" did hire a spokesperson for Harun Yahya to give a presentation.
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