An online colleague at my blog-host, SFN, makes the following observation:
Wouldn’t it be amusing if science groups started leading tours of the Creation Museum, lead by archeologists pointing out the flaws in their reasoning and why evolution really does answer those questions?
It would be a great response to that story out of Colorado about creationists leading tours of a natural history museum out there.
I say go for it. It would be great.
But I expect such a group would likely be EXPELLED from the museum. A normal tour (of at least, say, a dozen people), with no stealth or rambunctiousness (i.e. normal speaking voices and doing a reasonable debunking, not trying to get kicked out), touring the whole museum, even without PZ Myers hosting it. I’ll even pony up 20 bucks as a reward for the first such tour that is allowed to finish, just as incentive (such as it is) to be on one’s best behavior. Documentation shouldn’t be too difficult in this, the digital age.
But since AiG has no clue what evolution actually is, you’d need more than one guide. There’d have to at least a biologist, an archaeologist, and an astronomer. Even so, I think it’s a great idea. Know anyone who would be willing to do it?
Ok I myself believe in Christ (I am catholic). The point is that some “religious” people like to promote their ideas and mix them with faith, that is called religious fanaticism.
The thing about debunking other people ideas! It happens all the time. I give a theory and there comes a smarter man and proves that my theory is wrong. And so on.
Evan biologist teachers don’t believe in evolution as a cause of life. Rather a mechanism for adaptation.
There is actually a mistake in a biology school textbook, saying that Friedrich Wöhler (who is regarded as a pioneer in organic chemistry as a result of his (accidentally) synthesizing urea in the Wöhler synthesis in 1828) synthesized DNA in his experiment, which is cr**. A spontaneous synthesis of DNA is probable , as a car what explodes in your backyard and gets transformed into a train.
The point is , science is a really awesome thing but it will not answer the ultimate question.
P.S- Please I don’t want ,does god exist topic forming here.
PauloChem, evolution says nothing about how life started.
How not ?, by chemical evolution cosmological etc. Lightning, primordial soup etc.
My blog isn’t the place for this discussion.
What’s being advocated here is explaining the science and debunking the misconceptions as a test of whether one has the academic freedom to do so, similar to what creationists have done in other museums.
If you want to learn about evolution, rather than a strawman of it, I suggest you start at talk.origins.
Ok sorry , no problem. Have a nice day. =)