The New Yorker has an interesting story (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2007/06/a-few-miles-sou.html) about the author's visit to the new Creation Museum in Kentucky. These quotes say it all:
The Creation Museum takes the usual trajectory of science education and turns it upside down: the Enlightenment initiated the dark ages, and only the discovery of Biblical truth can lead us out of it. There’s very little attempt to persuade visitors with even spurious scientific argument. The truth is asserted within a hermetically closed system of belief.
Many of the quarter of a million people expected to visit the Creation Museum by the end of the year will be children. They will be indoctrinated into an ideology that systematically warps their understanding of the physical world and fills them with hostility toward the facts and concepts of modernity. As we have learned over the past few years, this doesn’t mean that they’ll be outcasts and failures. A great political party has largely abased itself before their world view and offered them unprecedented access to government power. The Creation Museum, a combination of a natural-history museum and a Communist Party propaganda center, will help to arm and arouse the next generation of Christianists in the ongoing war against secular and scientific America.
This country must look increasinly like a bunch of idiots to the rest of the world. Better education is a higher and higher priority to many developing nations, but the Christianists in the USA want to dumb everyone down to their level.
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Far be it from me to suggest Noah and the dinosaurs did not fit that Ark. But I have a friend, and his name is Darwin. You are welcome to check him out (no pictures), but still a cool dude.
http://gayspecies.blogspot.com/2007/06/when-i-was-but-wee-little-child-of-18-i.html
I feel the "earth move." Oh, it's just me. I quake a lot. It's San Francisco after all.
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