Ancient Art

[Skeptisch]

Only in America!

“A school bus hissed to a stop near a giant concrete dinosaur perched outside the Creation Museum, a $27 million, 70,000-square-foot natural history museum-meets-Biblical theme park. Three dozen middle school students tumbled out the doors, stretching after the 113-mile drive from Westside Christian School in Indianapolis for a field trip to augment their science lessons.

What awaits that busload of children? Let’s read on:

Inside, the students learned from displays that, contrary to mainstream textbooks, science supports the Bible’s accounts of the Earth’s creation in six days; that the Grand Canyon was created suddenly in Noah’s flood; that dinosaurs and humans lived together; and that animal poison did not exist before Adam’s original sin.”
http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/creation-museum-is-flourishing/

 

[painted wolf]

Except for all the Creationist museums in Canada, the UK, Turkey...

We just have the largest and most expensive...

wa:do

 

[Skeptisch]

Except for all the Creationist museums in Canada, the UK, Turkey...wa:do

You are of course correct but …

“Americans are Creationists; Britons and Canadians Side with Evolution
Half of Americans in the Midwest and South say God created human beings in their present form.

[NEW YORK – Jul. 15, 2010] – While a majority of people in Britain and Canada agree with the theory of evolution, almost half of Americans are in tune with creationism, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.

The online survey of representative samples of 1,002 Americans, 1,009 Canadians and 2,011 Britons asked respondents whether their own point of view is closest to the notion that human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, or the idea that God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years.”
http://www.visioncritical.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/2010.07.15_Origin.pdf

 

[evolved yet?]

Proud to be Canadian, does anybody know the status of teaching evolution in Canada?

 

[painted wolf]

OH don't worry... the creationists are working on it.

Is Canada’s Science Minister a creationist? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Welcome to the Big Valley Creation Science Museum

Creationism may be on the rise (or just getting more media) in both the UK and Canada.

wa:do

 

[Skeptisch]

Is Canada’s Science Minister a creationist?

There is a good chance he is. He would go hand in hand with that other intellectual giant, his boss Stephen Harper. He would have committed Canada to the Iraqi war – a war which many informed thinkers believed then as now was illegal, foolhardy and avoidable.

 

[evolved yet?]

The premier of Newfoundland is a YEC, I was wondering/worrying about the education since I'm about to go to a Catholic High School.

 

[Sunstone]

...since I'm about to go to a Catholic High School.

Good luck with your science classes!

 

[Skeptisch]

The premier of Newfoundland is a YEC, I was wondering/worrying about the education since I'm about to go to a Catholic High School.

You appear to be well on your way to be guided by reason and evidence and you will be able to call BS when you see it. There are many good books that might help you as a guide to morality and reason. You may want to start with an old classic that, IMHO, is still right up there with the best.

It is Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”

The book is intended to explain the scientific method to laypeople, and to encourage people to learn critical or skeptical thinking. It explains methods to help distinguish between ideas that are considered valid science, and ideas that can be considered pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking, and should stand up to rigorous questioning.