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- Batfishy, on 07/01/2009, -16/+594"It's sort of a monument to scientific illiteracy, isn't it?"
Yes, it is. And it's embarrassing, too. - ironhide, on 07/01/2009, -15/+496Dr. Bengtson noted that to explain how the few species aboard the ark could have diversified to the multitude of animals alive today in only a few thousand years, the museum said simply, “God provided organisms with special tools to change rapidly.”
“Thus in one sentence they admit that evolution is real,” Dr. Bengtson said, “and that they have to invoke magic to explain how it works.”
This is why you can never win an argument with a religious nut. - charlie6969, on 07/01/2009, -27/+429FTA: Lisa Park of the University of Akron cried at one point as she walked a hallway full of flashing images of war, famine and natural disasters which the museum blames on belief in evolution.
"I think it's very bad science and even worse theology -- and the theology is far more offensive to me," said Park, a professor of paleontology who is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
"I think there's a lot of focus on fear, and I don't think that's a very Christian message... I find it a malicious manipulation of the public." - Hetman, on 07/01/2009, -31/+420America where scientists come to cry. We are barbarians.
- Arcex, on 07/02/2009, -9/+329This is what happens when you have a bunch of people who let a bad translation of a bunch of short stories determine their entire understanding of nature and history.
- Nboy514, on 07/02/2009, -11/+271Dear Kentucky, get your ***** together.
Love, Science. - mockupscaledown, on 07/01/2009, -6/+263Maybe if we stopped referring to it as "evolution," and started referring to it as a "Jesus nudge," then fundamentalists would feel more comfortable about getting on board.
- novenator, on 07/02/2009, -18/+253This building is a monument to conservative christian ignorance
- bookon, on 07/02/2009, -11/+234And they wonder why WE think THEY are stupid.
The Right Wingers (on Fox News, Talk Radio, etc) like to say that we "Elites" think that they, The Christian Right, are a bunch of inbred morons. This is WHY WE DO. - inactive, on 07/02/2009, -7/+149Roaks, remember the other day when I called you an idiot? Here's my proof.
- JoeRandom, on 07/01/2009, -5/+132They will just start saying they weren't Jesus nudged from monkeys.
- trolleyfan, on 07/02/2009, -1/+100No, probably not. Even one-hundred and fifty years ago, we had a pretty good idea the Earth was more than 6,000 years old...
I think it's an incredible example of how far a big chunk of our country *hasn't* come - to literally be more than 150 years behind the times... - Frostek, on 07/02/2009, -4/+101The use of the word "museum" lends an air of credency to their inane collection of crap which it doesn't deserve.
Are they even recognised by the International Council of Museums? - kingmanic, on 07/02/2009, -2/+91Sometimes something is so stupid that mocking it is the only reasonable thing to do. Anything else gives it too much credit. You and this 'museum' deserve nothing but to be mocked and laughed at. You don't even deserve pity.
- powatom, on 07/02/2009, -6/+93So you DO believe the bible? Please explain why.
- Arcex, on 07/02/2009, -6/+92ROaks, have you always been an idiot, or is it a recent failing?
- Akairenn, on 07/02/2009, -1/+86I'm still torn between laughing and crying at the idea that 'elite' is somehow a bad word.
- ProjectGSX, on 07/02/2009, -3/+82Why link to KOS when we have the link to the actual article?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30muse.h ...
Read the nytimes piece, its hilarious. - KtoheE, on 07/02/2009, -6/+85Creation Museum...next to the statue in memory of the fallen Tooth Fairy.
Ignorance knows no limits, fortunately science has no limits - gaqua, on 07/02/2009, -2/+80You don't have to be an atheist to believe in evolution.
- WasabiBomb, on 07/02/2009, -1/+75I'd like to point out that every example of "bad science" you posted was eventually disproved... by science. Bad theories don't last. 'Cause, you see, that's the difference between religion and science- science looks at the evidence and then molds the theory to match that evidence, while religion creates a theory and then molds the evidence to match that theory.
As for why you once received 100 buries for saying that the Moon has a gravitational field... I suspect we're not being given the entire story. I'd also like to point out that even if you did get buried for the comment alone, that it's very unlikely you were buried by people who knew what they were talking about. Digg is hardly a cross-section of the scientific community. - rocknog, on 07/02/2009, -0/+73Well yes, it's true that evolution made us put more faith in blind superstition than scientific rigor. Back in ancient days, it suited us more to be able to instantly identify patterns. For instance, if someone in the tribe eats a particular berry and drops over dead, it's better to assume that the berry is poisonous than to hold it up to scientific rigor and conduct controlled experiments to eliminate the possibility that maybe he just happened to have died of something entirely unrelated to the berry. Unfortunately, in this day and age, that mode of thinking is obsolete and archaic, but it's a difficult struggle against our baser instincts, and so we end up with idiots like you who blindly lash out against science because you can't cope with any threats to your superstitious worldview.
- ClevelandBrown, on 07/02/2009, -8/+78The Creationist Museum should be bulldozed and turned into a landfill as then it would be a pile of crap that actually serves a purpose.
- drunkCatholic, on 07/02/2009, -1/+70holy ***** Jesus Nudge is probably the best thing I've ever read.
- sodade, on 07/02/2009, -7/+76Obvious troll is obvious.
- 7m7uf, on 07/02/2009, -4/+73it should be picketed. Like they do to abortion clinics, gay pride parades and anything else they strongly disagree with.
Oh, wait... we'd just be "attacking" them. meh, Love the retard hate the ignorance. - reuscel, on 07/02/2009, -1/+66I'm a tolerant guy, but if there's one thing I don't tolerate, it's willful ignorance and stupidity. Just because you're too dumb to understand something doesn't mean it isn't real.
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -2/+67They don't need diagnosing, they have proven their nuttery for all to see.
- treehugger87, on 07/02/2009, -5/+69How does the image of Jesus riding on a dinosaur become a good representative of the body of Christ? How does that help his image? If you love your Bible and love your church, you should be offended at the use of his image being used to keep people ignorant.
- kingmanic, on 07/02/2009, -3/+66America is better in many ways than many other places.
But I think this is more of 'I hate ignorance, this takes away from our greatness.' - SpinningHead, on 07/02/2009, -2/+64In my Catholic middle school, our teacher read from Genesis and said, "This is how people described the world before we had science. Now, Im going to teach you science."
- evilesttoast, on 07/02/2009, -0/+59I'm a Christian, I deal with insane people who tell me that people lived with the dinosaurs. But when I bring up evidence that shoots down their idiocracy, like light from stars reaching earth, fossilized bones, they say its all created by Satan to trick us.
tl;dr - dont try to argue with religious extremists, theyre insane. - KtoheE, on 07/02/2009, -2/+59Is that like the metrosexual of science? not quite gay but not quite straight but retarded all over.
- jeffbw, on 07/01/2009, -9/+64Laggards.
http://www.buffalobeast.com/117/let_there_be_retar ... - ApokalypseNow, on 07/02/2009, -1/+55LOL @ CrazedLeper talking about evidence when he demonstrably has no understanding of what constitutes evidence and what what evidence actually shows.
- jggr, on 07/02/2009, -10/+56No... I think the time has come to start some drama over this. It's a ***** joke, it's sad and pathetic, and it makes your entire country look like a bunch of raving lunatics for simply allowing something so scientifically *WRONG* to exist. I'm all for freedom too, but not the freedom to just make ***** up and call it science.
/If I can't yell "Fire!" in a theater, you can't say this crap either. - inactive, on 07/02/2009, -2/+47Nut isn't a diagnosis. It's a whack job who believes the world is 6000 years old.
- glasnostic, on 07/02/2009, -1/+45neither is the bible.
- rocknog, on 07/02/2009, -1/+45If someone starts shrieking that the sky is green, it's pretty safe to assume they're a nut... or colorblind, I guess.
- vammirato, on 07/02/2009, -2/+45I'm pretty sure it went something like this on The Family Guy:
Brian: Stuey, you are quoting the Bible in your arguments and you can't even read.
Stuey: Welcome to America, buddy.
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They should have never translated it out of Latin. - jggr, on 07/02/2009, -1/+44If it walks like a duck.....
- BlackGaff, on 07/02/2009, -2/+45The NY times article it quotes is better:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30muse.h ... - alleged, on 07/02/2009, -0/+42We haven't seen any actual evidence of a 6000 year old earth. If you have evidence, please share the data. If you don't, please share whatever you're smoking.
- Tecton1c, on 07/02/2009, -0/+41Man and humans coexisted at the same time?!?!?! No way!!! That's not Biblical.
- DiscoUnderpants, on 07/02/2009, -2/+40As an Australian I would like to apologise for Ken Ham being inflicted on Americans everywhere. I would have no problem if you sent him to Gitmo.
- s73v3r, on 07/02/2009, -0/+38Except now the iPhone can, and you look like an idiot.
- jriggs, on 07/02/2009, -3/+41Bill Hicks - Dinosaurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZcztxRquo&eur - PrometheusBorn, on 07/02/2009, -1/+39Ahh... finally! Someone who has proven that Science doesn't magically come to the right conclusion 100% of the time on it's first try! Congratulations! You've discovered what every scientist already knows. Postulate, hypothesize, test it, and if it doesn't work, try something else and test that repetitively. Eventually you get to the truth.
Science is about honing in on the truth. I trust those who use this method probably have a pretty good approximation to what the 'truth' is. Newton had a pretty damn good approximation that allowed us to have a working model we could base engineering around. not 100% the truth, but close enough for the average person.
Creationism is not about the truth. It's about continuing to promote a dogma that is far from what we know to be fact after years of scientific testing.
If you correlate 'science isn't always right' with 'science is no better than creationism', then however well versed you are in scientific history (probably just propaganda you've read), then you are an idiot of the worse kind. The kind that has the potential to be better than that but chooses to be ignorant out of weakness. - Ajajadude, on 07/02/2009, -5/+43Hey! You know how to cut and paste!
- Elranzer, on 07/02/2009, -6/+44LOL @ all of the religious partisan hacks below me who are going to try and defend the Creationist Museum...
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