Posted on 07/14/2007 10:33:34 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Madonna and Bon Jovi are no match for Hawaiian flies when it comes to karaoke hits at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln. In a popular exhibit activity, visitors attempt to mimic the unique courtship calls of different species of Hawaiian Drosophila, a group of 800 different flies that may have evolved from a single species.
Fly karaoke is part of "Explore Evolution," a permanent exhibit currently at Nebraska and five other museums in the Midwest and Southwest...that explores evolutionary concepts in new ways. Such an activity is a far cry from the traditional way science museums have presented evolution, which usually included charts called phylogenies depicting ancestral relationships or a static set of fossils arranged chronologically. "Explore Evolution'' has those, tooand then some, because museum curators came to realize that they needed better ways to counter growing attacks on their integrity.
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Under pressure from these kinds of groups, the Kansas State Board of Education in 2005 approved a curriculum that allowed the public schools to include completely unfounded challenges to the theory of evolution.
In an effort to make their case to the public, creationists raised $26 million in private donations to build the 50,000-square-foot Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., which opened in late May. The institution presents the biblical history of the universe. Visitors learn that biblically, dinosaurs are best explained as creatures that roamed Earth with humans. In its first month of existence, the museum drew over 49,000 visitors, according to its Web site.
"Explore Evolution," funded by a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation, is one of many recent efforts by science museums to counter such resistance to evolution...
(Excerpt) Read more at sciam.com ...
[If the universe is pointless and has no meaning, then you couldnt trust your own conclusion about anything.”]
[[That makes absolutely no sense what so ever.]]
It makes sense. In a universe with purpose, we can find meaning. In a universe without purpose, there is no meaning to anything. Any conclusion would be just as meaningless and pointless as any other.
Well, time for me to go. I’m off to the Grand Canyon to learn why it is powerful proof for the flood, and against uniformitarianism. See you all in a few days.
I got two cents to rub together and that is still light years ahead of you zealots.
[You only know about the complexity of the genomes of several animals and plants (and fungi) because the information was made available to you by people, who nearly to the man accept evolution.]
That is the most ignorant statement I’ve read in several minutes.
The founders of all sciences, nearly to the man, accepted God, until very recently.
Are you so blind to reality that you think that all of history’s great scientific thinkers were evolutionists?
Those of whom you speak merely stood on the shoulders of giants, adding to a body of work that was hundreds, or even thousands of years in the making.
[I got two cents to rub together and that is still light years ahead of you zealots.]
That statement is meaningless. I suspect you have a low-level IQ, probably further exacerbated by a deficient education.
(2) The best man can do is continue to discover the greatness of God and the glory of his awesome creation... JMHO... (3) Check with Sir Anthony Flew, who followed the evidence, and today continues his quest to understand the creation... In light of his own acknowledgement that this design... has to have a Designer... (December 2005)....
FYI -- To the great dismay and chagrin of his atheistic, Darwinist friends...
FMI - Flew did not become a Christian or a Muslim or a Catholic or a Jew... but he won my great respect for intellectual honesty as made his jump from "No God!" to "Maybe" based on the evidence uncovered within his own journey!
For the record --
I do not subscribe to all of the creationist sub-theories and time lines... but I do subscribe to the proposition that all of this mind-boggling beautiful creation is highly charged with the glory and power of God, our Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer...
It takes a lot more "blind faith" to believe in abiogenesis and some of the other Darwinists' rough-sketch theories of the beginning... than to accept the foundational tenets of Biblical faith... (It's God's gig! -- just enjoy the beauty, the ongoing and unfolding mystery, and the music!)
In the presence and power of an almighty and loving God,
...Nothing is impossible...
The "wise and learned men" of godless Darwinism would do well to stop trying to write God out of the script....
THEY.... ARE THE REVISIONISTS...
[[Nonsense. True is or isn’t. It is objective.]]
If true is objective, that means it’s an absolute and further a universal absolute, whihc points to an absolute truth determiner/creator, yet i’m sure your next argument will be the absolute universal morals, ie: truth, ie: Evil is bad, good is the right thing, is subjective- round and round we go. Philosophers and theologins have tackled this problem of objectiveness for centuries and have gotten exactly nowhere except right back where they started, and that is that ‘one can’t be certain if their is an absolute universal truth, but on the other hand one can’t rule it out either because htere are evidences that point to both a subjective nature of a universal morality, while htere are also evidences for an objective universal morality/truth
I think it was over the last 5 decades, with the final genome-project completing the mapping human genomes just a few years ago. Why? Is that somehow germane?
Perhaps you’d like to argue that 20th/21st century scientists thought of everything by themselves? It seems to me that those who made these discoveries had to be educated men to begin with.
What knowledge did they enter their respective fields with? Naturally, it was the knowledge accumulated over centuries, or millennia by others. Those who were, nearly to the man, believers in God.
So... What’s your point?
[[Just because there is a lack of purpose does not alter the objective nature of reality]]
There’s a lack of purpose? Wow- then I guess we just stop seeking answers to life’s ills because quite frankly, non of it will matter in the end- I mean who cares if we help people with cancer? They’re going ot die anyways and their purposeless life will ramin purposeless after death with no memory of the puposeless direction their lives had while alive.
I suspect you’ll argue that the hear and now has a purpose because it will ‘help others’ in the future if we discover cures along the way? My comment ot htat is whoopidity doo- since life has no purpose, I don’t care about what the future holds for anyone because as soon as they are dmeised, that’s it- nothing, according to the purposless mantra.
Three cheers for puposelessness.
[[Just because there is a lack of purpose does not alter the objective nature of reality]]
Sorry, posted too soon- meant ot expound a bit on the last few words/sintiment- Objective reality? Who’s objective reality? The objective reality as determined by opinions from purposless men? If there is no point, then really, there is no point in me believing any subjective interpretation of what you or anyone else determines to be objective reality because, it would be pointless.
This needs further fleshing out- but it’s a solid enough foundation to work from- but mind you- this problem has really been philosophised into ground meat.
You are quite smug, are you sure you don’t belong at DU?
Don't tell him to do that ... I haven't seen the Grand Canyon yet, and I don't want it to go away before I get that chance :(
I would like to apply our fascinating new philosophy of the Pointless Universe to Free Republic:
To give you an example, News Papers are generally written at a 6-8th grade level. I imagine that Newspapers are rather difficult for you to read (other than Beetle Bailey)... but if you start with an earlier grade level you can work your way up... but then I digress. If reading is beyond you or you don't know where the library is, turn off the big pink haired lady on the church channel and turn the tube to Discovery, PBS, or National Geographic.... get yourself some fried mayonnaise, dip it in some ranch dressing and have a party.
And that's the "bottom line." Sounds like devolution to me. Scrap culture, scrap history, hold one's ancestors in contempt, erase the human past, scrap all rules: and then let me show you the beast I truly am....
Actually, that association seems pretty insulting to "beasts." And so I apologize to the animals....
Thank you ever so much, GGG, for the excellent excerpts, and for writing!
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