T. Rex Meets Biblical Text at Museum

The Los Angeles Times ^ | December 9, 2001 | STEPHANIE SIMON, TIMES STAFF WRITER

[StoneColdGOP]

Religion: New Kentucky center will present creationism as science, alarming experts.

FLORENCE, Ky. -- There is no mention of Noah's Ark in most science museums. No mention of the Tower of Babel or the Garden of Eden, either.

Instead, you get dinosaur replicas, fossils, models of spiraling DNA. And informational text promoting what millions of Americans regard as drivel: the idea that all life on Earth evolved over 4 billion years from genetic scraps.

[woollyone]

first law of thermodynamics requires it.

[alcuin]

first law of thermodynamics requires it.

Maybe, but anthropomorphism needn't be a law unto itself.

[Eternal_Bear]

You can have the Creator and Evolution too. Why not settle on that? BTW, how come Noah didn't have dinosaurs on the ark? Didn't God command him to include every reptile too? Noah didn't do a good job did he?

[Eternal_Bear]

How many times do we have to tell you guys?:^)

The Earth is not a closed system. We receive massive new infusions of energy from the sun every second and have for billions of years.

[jrherreid]

Ah--this kind of stuff is always fun.

The neo-Darwinist theories that are floating around now are pretty interesting. Most of it is politically driven; you get a theory, then try and rearrange the facts to fit your theory's timeline. If a fact doesn't fit, chuck it or disqualify it somehow. "The carbon-dating was skewed due to older organic matter that contaminated the specimen." That kind of stuff.

The Creationist view is simplistic, and the Evolutionist view is up in the air. Which one do ya want?

[ag2000jon]

You've seen fish flap their gills, haven't you? For the much-smaller insects, only a tiny amount of propulsion was needed to carry them pretty far, flapping their gills to gain distance while jumping is not silly, and as it would pose a benefit, they would evolve "better" gills over time.

Flap their gills? That would be a stretch to say that fish "flap" their gills...and it would be an even bigger stretch to say that those gills could be used to propel something through the air...Fish use them to breath, like lungs, not to propel them through the water. I don't see how a bug with gills could use them to "fly".

I still hope you are just joking with this one...

[StoneColdGOP]

Fun material, huh?

See ya soon, too! (Thanks for the links)

[PatrickHenry]

The man who received a nobel prize for discovering the Big Bang theory, Arno Penzias, is an Orthodox Jew.

Penzias was part of a team that discovered evidence for the BB theory. The BB theory had existed for decades prior to then. But without confirming evidence, it wasn't persuasive. The Nobel prize for physics is virtually never given for theoretical work.

[wwjdn]

Trust us: The speed of light in a vacuum has always been 300,000 kps. It's written into the universe's constitution or something.

Sounds like a "scientist" to me. The speed of light is not constant and science is not infallable. GOD is!

[medved]

Evolution is a fact. That is, the older the fossil record, the less the animals and plants contained therein resemble modern species. Devote your time and energy to explaining that, and not to trying to deny someone else's explanation.

The older the cars, the less they resemble today's models; you'd threfore claim the newer ones evolved from the older via random processes and driver selection?

[medved]

In nature, when you don't use something, you lose it. Trying to become a flying bird from scratch requires you to accumulate a large assortment of new and different body parts over a very protracted period of time, none of which would be useful at all until the final day on which the whole thing worked, and not lose ANY of them along the way while the others are developing. It can't happen.

[riley1992]

Just read all the replies. Think I will go nuke a bag of popcorn and sit back and enjoy the rest of the show.

[4CJ]

"Isn't it funny how the most educated among us (scientists etc.) accept evolution and the least educated (Bible-thumpers etc.) accept this "creation science" nonsense?"

Ever heard of some old geezer named Einstein? Had something to do with the speed of light and relativity?
Just food for thought...

[Loyalty_and_Courage]

bump

[RightOnline]

Gee. You're just a lovely human being, aren't ya? If we ever play golf together and a thunderstorm blows up out of nowhere, remind me not to stand too close to you.