Thoughts - Maybe I need a section for religious controvosy also

[jack]

http://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.

Comments

[fanf]

Why would it be breaking impartiality to state that the museum is full of lies?

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

I've recently realised that fundie/rest-of-world interactions remind me of certain Monty Python sketches. You know the sort, where one of the characters holds a position that is clearly absurd, but they defend it with great vigour and imagination and a million and one excuses. Like the Dead Parrot sketch, or the Black Knight bit in the Holy Grail.

[mr-ricarno.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I think it's time for me to dissociate from the fundamentalists.

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.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think the creationalist museum must be commended for being quite so forward and radical in their beliefs. I mean, they're saying that dinosaurs, which after all are not mentioned in the bible at all, were genuinely around in the garden of Eden, and the fossils arn't just lies put there by the devil to decieve us.

I hope they don't manage to alianate all the scientists *and* all the fundamentalists :-)