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Topic: Challenged by Creationists, Museums Answer Back
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Snuckles
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posted 20 September 2005 02:29 AM
quote: By CORNELIA DEAN Published: September 20, 2005ITHACA, 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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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 20 September 2005 09:21 AM
quote: Originally posted by Michelle:
Holy crap. Slightly over half of Americans are idiots. I guess this explains the 2004 election results.
Um, yeah. I hate this: quote: "It's your job," she told docents, "not to slam the door in the face of a believer."
Oh I would. In fact I would say: "Here you have two doors. Behind one is science based on empirical data collection, observation and experimentation. It is the door of a hopeful future, where we can understand who we are and our place in this world. Behind this second door is ignorance and magical thinking based on slavish, literal adherence to a book. It is a world of closed thinking, limited intelligence and an arrogant assumption of accuracy that the whole world should be bound to believe upon pain of everlasting torture. Ladies and gentlemen, I prefer to walk through the first door. You may make your own choice."
From: Chardon, Ohio USA | Registered: Jan 2005
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Fidel
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posted 20 September 2005 09:22 AM
Ya, nobody here 'cept us chickens. And if we're not alone, then why don't they come and drink beers with us eh ?. [ 20 September 2005: Message edited by: Fidel ]
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