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Percy
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Message 91 of 94 (404700)
06-09-2007 6:45 AM
Reply to: Message 18 by Nighttrain
06-08-2007 10:19 PM


Re: Stumble
A tiny percentage of the questions were a bit unfair. For example, "Where is the Berlin Wall?", I would have paused, too, thinking, "Okay, he must be asking what road the Berlin Wall was on, do I know that? Let's see, there was Brandenberg Gate, was it on Brandenberg Street? No, that can't be right, I think the wall turned corners, so it couldn't be said to be on any particular street. Is he asking if it divided East Berlin from West Berlin? I guess I'm not sure what he's asking."
Also, "Where is KFC from," I would have paused there, too, knowing that although KFC stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken, that is quite possibly just a marketing name, and the company itself could be from anywhere.
But the vast majority of the questions were perfectly fair, and they highlight a very real problem here in the states - we think it perfectly okay to graduate ignoramuses from high school. I especially liked the mislabeled map. In a couple hours my daughter walks down the aisle to accept her high school diploma, and I'm gratified that she knows that South Korea is not on the continent of Australia.
--Percy

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Message 92 of 94 (404704)
06-09-2007 7:20 AM
Reply to: Message 61 by simple
06-09-2007 2:11 AM


Re: How noodly be thy appendage?
Keys writes:
What about those talking about the FSM??? You aren't ragging on them. Why?
I brought up the FSM as a comparative to creation science. I would still like to know if you support the building of FSM museums. A more direct question is - Should people be overjoyed when museums are built on fantasy, mythology, or lies? What about if such museums are built yet portray these ideas as facts?
I am not talking about the FSM. I am asking you if you are overjoyed at fantasy museums possibly being created and marketed to children as truth.
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I got through this thread after I replied to your post #46. I see now that you do not wish to present your evidence, nor address any of the issues presented in the science threads.
Are you claiming that the science threads are based on evidence? If so, what parts of the evidence? All of it, or just the narrow, piddly little cultish bits of fleshly stuff they chose there??
What you could do - present the evidence that you feel you have that contradicts the evidence that science has. Being that the topic would be yours people would have to abide by the forum rules and stay within that line of thought.

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Message 93 of 94 (404709)
06-09-2007 7:33 AM


This Thread is in the Wrong Forum
Judging by the discussion in this thread, it really belongs in the [forum=-11] forum, so I'm moving it there. Before doing that, I'd like to make a few points.
First, a discussion thread is not a chat room. The discussion board format permits deliberation, study, thought and reflection. When you find yourself exchanging very short messages with the same person or persons every couple minutes, please post a message suggesting that everyone go to the EvC Forum Chat Room.
Second, threads have topics, not to limit discussion, but to keep discussion focused. The topic of this thread, judging from the discussion so far, concerns science museums and their responsibility for accurate representation.
Third, I am the 3rd moderator to post here in the past 24 hours. Obviously what moderators have observed in this thread is causing concern, so let me explicitly caution participants to focus on their discussion on the topic, and not on the people they're discussing with.

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Message 94 of 94 (404714)
06-09-2007 7:34 AM


Thread copied to the Creationism museum opens in Alberta thread in the Is It Science? forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.

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