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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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11 Aug 2005 01:04:26 AM |
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In the News: Museum exhibits a creationist viewpoint |
From the article:
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BY LISA ANDERSON
Chicago Tribune
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. - (KRT) - Tucked into a leafy fold of the Ozark
Mountains, a new dinosaur museum boldly goes where few museums have
gone before - deep into the pages of Genesis.
At first glance, with its research-quality replicas and lush dioramas
of prehistoric Earth, the Museum of Earth History, which opened in
April in this Victorian spa town, may seem like any other facility
devoted to dinosaurs and fossils. But, with exhibits aligned with the
Bible's six days of creation, it is also emblematic of the increasing
volume in the national debate over how evolution should be taught in
public schools and the emboldening of those who oppose or question
evolution.
At issue, in state legislatures, school boards, museums and other
cultural institutions across the country, is whether evolution,
Charles Darwin's widely accepted theory that all life descended from
common ancestors and developed through natural selection and random
mutation, should be presented alone or in conjunction with alternative
explanations.
Most visitors to the Museum of Earth History prefer the explanation in
Genesis. And that is exactly what the museum, a joint project of the
non-profit Oklahoma-based Creation Truth Foundation and Eureka
Springs' Great Passion Play outdoor Bible theme park, offers.
Suspended overhead in one display, for example, is a replica of a
Pteranodon, a pointy-headed flying reptile with a 33-foot wingspan,
hollow bones and a bony ruffle on its skull. Visitors are told: "Each
of these unique design features indicate that Pteranodons were created
to fly, not that they slowly evolved into flying creatures."
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Read it at
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/12347333.htm
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Roger Coppock" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Museum exhibits a creationist viewpoint |
11 Aug 2005 04:02:11 AM |
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I remember these fundamentalist
'museums' popping up decades ago.
They must have a very short lifetime,
because I can't find an old one of any
real size.
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| User: "Richard Forrest" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Museum exhibits a creationist viewpoint |
11 Aug 2005 04:36:46 AM |
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Roger Coppock wrote:
I remember these fundamentalist
'museums' popping up decades ago.
They must have a very short lifetime,
because I can't find an old one of any
real size.
Evidently, they can't evolve.
How interesting.
RF
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