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"maff" |
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26 Nov 2005 01:48:39 AM |
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America is caught in a conflict between science and God |
America is caught in a conflict between science and God
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1651102,00.html
A new exhibition on Darwin's life and work is a defiant gesture against
US biblical literalism
Martin Kettle
Saturday November 26, 2005
The Guardian
It isn't very often that a mere visit to an exhibition counts as a
political act, but that's certainly how it feels these days as you
mount the steps of the American Museum of Natural History, overlooking
Central Park. Admittedly, there wasn't a protester in sight when I
visited this week, and staff have not yet faced picket lines or hate
mail. This is, after all, New York City not Salt Lake City. But
organisers of the museum's terrific new exhibition on the life and work
of Charles Darwin acknowledge that theirs is an explicit gesture of
defiance towards an anti-scientific Christian fundamentalism that is
again running fast and deep in contemporary America.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: America is caught in a conflict between science and God |
27 Nov 2005 02:03:08 AM |
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In article <1132991319.854997.189920@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
America is caught in a conflict between science and God
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1651102,00.html
A new exhibition on Darwin's life and work is a defiant gesture against
US biblical literalism
Martin Kettle
Saturday November 26, 2005
The Guardian
It isn't very often that a mere visit to an exhibition counts as a
political act, but that's certainly how it feels these days as you
mount the steps of the American Museum of Natural History, overlooking
Central Park. Admittedly, there wasn't a protester in sight when I
visited this week, and staff have not yet faced picket lines or hate
mail. This is, after all, New York City not Salt Lake City. But
organisers of the museum's terrific new exhibition on the life and work
of Charles Darwin acknowledge that theirs is an explicit gesture of
defiance towards an anti-scientific Christian fundamentalism that is
again running fast and deep in contemporary America.
Great minds must move alike, Maff. I posted the same article almost
exactly at the same time as you.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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