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And perhaps Mel Gibson could get a job as a docent there...
Candace Perry

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Forgive the list, but I am responding to several other statements:

It surprises me not at all that such a detail might be wrong in the
article or in the "museum". The proponents of such foolishness will
likely not want to stress the distinct and important difference between
paleontologists and archaeologists, preferring that their visitors
remain ignorant.

The real fear comes into play for me when I think about just how many
people in the US are definitely gullible enough to believe that they did
not evolve from lower animals. The Esquire article is indeed excellent.
You can not help but chuckle at the stupidity. Thanks Sarah.

Just to be clear....There is no theory that humans evolved from apes.
The theory is that humans evolved from the same precursor as apes. Said
precursor no longer exists, since it was outcompeted out of existence
several million years ago.

All that said, I must acknowledge that their tack is brilliant. They
have managed to design and codify their faith-based point of view into a
physical format which clearly portrays what they believe. As
anti-intellectual and scientifically spurious as it certainly is, it has
power in its clarity. It is so simple to just believe what you are told,
and so much harder to use your mind to understand the evidence as
presented by science, that it is no wonder that people lean toward the
easier choice when they get the chance.

Linda is certainly right that we can never know with utter certainty how
the universe came to be. That is the nature and purview of faith. We can
however prove without any shadow of the tiniest doubt that humans never
rode dinosaurs.

By the way...1. Science makes discoveries, but was not itself
discovered.
Science, as the process of systematically testing the natural world to
better understand it, is a creation of man. 2. Science can most
definitely be art, just as art can be scientific.

Mark Janzen
Registrar/Collections Manager
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art
Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection Wichita State University
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Did anyone else see the article about the multi million dollar
creationist theory museum? Located now ir rural Kentucky.

Not sure if the newspaper or the museum staff misidentified the
paleontologists in the diorama as archaeologists!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14122311/?GT1=8404


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