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jackhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/02/weden02.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/02/ixworld.html
"The centrepiece of the museum is a series of huge model dinosaurs, built by the former head of design at Universal Studios, which are portrayed as existing alongside man, contrary to received scientific opinion that they lived millions of years apart."
"Mr Ham is particularly proud of a planned reconstruction of the interior of Noah's Ark. 'You will hear the water lapping, feel the Ark rocking and perhaps even hear people outside screaming,' he said. More controversial exhibits deal with diseases and famine, which are portrayed not as random disasters, but as the result of mankind's sin."
"Elsewhere, animated figures will be used to recreate the Garden of Eden, while in another room, visitors will see a tyrannosaurus rex pursuing Adam and Eve after their fall from grace. "That's the real terror that Adam's sin unleashed," visitors will be warned."
However, I would like to commend the article's author, who seems to well avoid breaking impartiality by, for instance, describing what received scientific knowledge says, and what Ham interprets the bible as saying, without saying either is true.
"The centrepiece of the museum is a series of huge model dinosaurs, built by the former head of design at Universal Studios, which are portrayed as existing alongside man, contrary to received scientific opinion that they lived millions of years apart."
"Mr Ham is particularly proud of a planned reconstruction of the interior of Noah's Ark. 'You will hear the water lapping, feel the Ark rocking and perhaps even hear people outside screaming,' he said. More controversial exhibits deal with diseases and famine, which are portrayed not as random disasters, but as the result of mankind's sin."
"Elsewhere, animated figures will be used to recreate the Garden of Eden, while in another room, visitors will see a tyrannosaurus rex pursuing Adam and Eve after their fall from grace. "That's the real terror that Adam's sin unleashed," visitors will be warned."
However, I would like to commend the article's author, who seems to well avoid breaking impartiality by, for instance, describing what received scientific knowledge says, and what Ham interprets the bible as saying, without saying either is true.
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Date: 2005-01-10 12:50 am (UTC)I think the author may not have been concerned about breaking impartiality, rather they are worried that they'll get death threats from someone in the religious right, as happened recently with BBC executives in the Jerry Springer controversy.
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Date: 2005-01-10 11:34 am (UTC):) Fair choice.
Though I suppose I do have friends to whom this wouldn't seem extreme.
I think the author may not have been concerned about breaking impartiality, rather they are worried that they'll get death threats from someone in the religious right, as happened recently with BBC executives in the Jerry Springer controversy.
Entirely possibly. But it's still a nice job.
And anyway, I don't think the sorts of people inclined to death threats notice that sort of thing -- writing 'received scientific wisdom says' or 'accepted theological beliefs say' just sounds like endorsment, so you get no less persecution than if you'd said "It is true that". Not everyone believes that received scientific wisdom says that the earth is 6000 years old, but enough do.