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Straggler
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Message 115 of 129 (404860)
06-10-2007 8:44 AM
Reply to: Message 110 by Buzsaw
06-01-2007 10:04 PM


Just Seen on TV
I have just seen a feature on this museum on a BBC Sunday morning religious programme. I am pleased to report that it was broadly ridiculed by the panel of theists as just plain silly.
However I do think there is a serious point.
Should anyone be able to setup a 'museum' to promote their own warped viewpoint just because they passionately believe something to be true and have enough money to publicise their beliefs in this way?
Should an 'Aryan museum' be allowed to exist that presents 'evidence' in a pseudo scientific manner to illustrate the view wthat there is indeed a master race and that other racial types are inferior?
Should a flat earther museum be tolerated that presents the 'evidence' that the Earth is flat and at the centre of the universe?
What is the difference between these examples and the creationist museum in principle?
I hope most people will see the creation museum in a similar light to the flat earther museum proposed above (i.e a complete joke) but it is worrying just how many people interviewed in the program were quite willing to believe this nonsense as fact without question.
Here in the UK all the main national museums are free. Having taken my son to the Science Museum and Natural history museums in London for absolutely nothing numerous times recently I can only say long may it last.
The ability to wander in and see a specific section or exhibit and come back another day to see the rest makes for a much less intense and more civilised and child friendly museum experience.
Although my little boy may only be interested in the animatronic dinosaurs and the like at the moment hopefully he will come to regard museums as the places of inspiration, knowledge and education that they can be when used to showcase and explain the results of detailed evidence based scientific and historical investigation.
It is this noble role that the creation museum is so woefully bastardising to the misguided, and possibly even deceitful, ends of it's founders.
Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.

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Straggler
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Message 117 of 129 (404868)
06-10-2007 10:25 AM
Reply to: Message 116 by nator
06-10-2007 9:53 AM


Re: Just Seen on TV
I think these museums are great. It is a way for all of the rational, educated people who otherwise don't realize the threat to reason and education the Creationists pose to finally understand how seriously deluded and wacko these creos really are.
Well I hope you are right but when reportedly nearly 50% of the American public, including the president and many other major political and powerful individuals, believe in creationism I am less optimistic that this will be the result.

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