Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Blinding Them with Science

MANIFESTO

So this guy Darwin has a crazy theory that man is decended from apes and people all over the country are up in arms. Over half of Americans (including our President) think this theory is hogwash and are finally taking action! The Times has a story about bands of God-fearing Creationists going to museums and harrassing the workers there about the evolution exhibits.
There is more than one type of creationist..."thinking creationists who want to know answers, and they are willing to listen, even if they go away unconvinced" and "people who for whatever reason are here to bother you, to trap you, to bludgeon you."
Is this the craziest thing you've ever heard? It sounds like something out of West Side Story. (And am I only only one that wants to pick up a caveman's club and "bludgeon" them upside their empty heads?) So to fight back, museums are giving their docents intensive training about the history of evolution and its scientific merits so they have the weapons necessary to fend off these science-hating nutjobs. They have a pamphlet they've written that advises when someone asks "is there lots of evidence against evolution?" to answer, simply, "No." Take that, Bible-thumper!

The American Natural History Museum is planning "the most in-depth exhibition ever" on Darwin and his work that will open on December 8th and they have their volunteers ready for the inevitable confrontation. I'm going to be there and I hope I get to see a Evolutionist bitch-slap a Creationist in front of a giant model of DNA or something. It tells you something about the times we live in when a trip to a museum is a political statement.

So get your butts to the ANHM and strike a blow for science! I'm sure it's going to be a great show. And you can bet it took more than seven days to put together.

2 Comments:

Blogger Yossarian said...

My favorite thing on the pamplet was:

Is evolution 'just a theory'? A "theory" in science is a structure of related ideas that explains one or more natural phenomena and is supported by observations from the natural world; it is not something less than a "fact." Theories actually occupy the highest, not the lowest, rank among scientific ideas. ... Evolution is a "theory" in the same way that the idea that matter is made of atoms is a theory. Is it true that there is lots of evidence against evolution? No. Essentially all available data and observations from the natural world support the hypothesis of evolution. No serious biologist or geologist today doubts whether evolution occurred.

I'm sure this answer is too complicated for most Creationists. We don't go into their places of worship and yell at them that they are wrong so they should stay out of the halls of science. They don't deserve to be there.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:52:00 PM  
Blogger Chill said...

He's a MD you know!

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:04:00 PM  

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