On 8/2/06, Meredith Greiling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My favourite quote from this article:
> "Americans just aren't gullible enough to believe that they came
> from a fish."

Well of course not. In the beginning, the Flying Spaghetti Monster
created a mountain, a midget, and a tree. *sheesh*

>>It's a very fine line sometimes between museum and theme-park - and
sometimes it's not so fine.  I think this place steps waaay over it!

Many museums step way over it so I don't necessarily fault them for
following the current trend. Plus if they didn't make it more "glitzy"
only the die-hard fundies would go there and that isn't going to
sustain the museum.

> I know the AAM Museum News did a good article on this issue a while
> back, asking various experts about teaching creationism as a science in
> museums.  Funnily enough all of the experts, including the theologians,
> said they were against the idea.

And who's version of it are you going to teach? Even the "Biblical"
creationists disagree. There are the strict 6 24-hour day theorists,
the ones that believe it happened over 6 "symbolic" days, and those
who don't specify at all but don't subscribe to the "humans are
decended from apes" theory. I'm sure they'll catch flack from some
branches of creation science at some point.

Deb

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