Hear that whirring sound? It's Darwin, spinning in his grave
When will this nonsense cease? First, they ask for disclaimer stickers to be put in biology text books. Then, they announce plans to build their own museum, complete with dioramas depicting Australopithecans hunting down some velociraptors. I thought the last straw would be forcing educated docents at world-class educational institutions to condescend to reply to their specious claims about carbon dating and the laws of thermodynamics. But no, that's not good enough for them. Now, they are giving their own tours of scientifically valid museums and providing their own takes on the exhibits dealing with evolution and natural history.
Some of my favourite excerpts from the article:
"God made dinosaurs on the sixth day of Creation, the same day he made people, according to Rusty Carter's interpretation of the Bible.
'The word dinosaur was not invented back then, but in Job 38, there's two large creatures, behemoth and leviathan,' said Carter, director of the Littleton-based Biblically Correct Tours, as he prepared to give his first tour of the school year."
"The biblical flood fossilized dinosaurs, Thorne said, but dinosaurs made it onto the ark - all the animals did. He suspects Noah brought baby dinosaurs (because who would want an adult tyrannosaur around?), and the creatures succumbed to overhunting or climate change."
Climate change? You mean the kind that supposedly isn't going on right now?
Leave science to the scientists. If you can't take religion out of public institutions, don't get mad at me when I go from ministry to church to tabernacle replacing the Book of Common Prayer and whatnot with copies of On the Origin of Species.
Comments
Here here! Well said.
I've always paid attention to the debate, but I find I have a much keener interest in it now that we have our own child. Ack.
Posted by: heather at September 27, 2005 05:11 PM