[From Rick Marken (2007.05.29.0835)]
I didn't find anything forwarded with this. Was that the point?
Best
Rick
On 5/29/07, Bill Powers <powers_w@frontier.net> wrote:
[From Bill Powers (2007.05.29o.0855 MDT)]
A forwarded post worth forwarding again.
Best,
Bill P.
--
Richard S. Marken PhD
Lecturer in Psychology UCLA
Statistical Analyst VHA
rsmarken@gmail.com
[From Bryan Thalhammer (2007.05.29.1055 CDT)]
Hello scientists!
A dark age may very well be approaching. Take away what has for decades been a
seemingly unlimited supply of cheap energy (even at $4 a gallon, we're getting a
lot of work for a low price from our cars) and many other changes may occur that
could make people more fearful, more insular, more superstitious, more
literal-minded, and more fanatical in their religiosity.
Enter the Creation Museum.
This museum represents a disturbing clash of faith and reason. A great deal of
energy was given to the museum's unwavering insistence in the literal truth of
biblical accounts and demonstrating their scientific coherence. Biblical
revelations are treated as scientific truth.
Here is an excerpt of a NYT article:
Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs
New York Times
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Published: May 24, 2007PETERSBURG, Ky. � The entrance gates here are topped with metallic
Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid
the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could
be like any other natural history museum, luring families with the
promise of immense fossils and dinosaur adventures.But step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a
pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two
prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at
home in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic
mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths
seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus
munches on leaves a few yards away.What is this, then? A reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which
dinosaurs are friends of inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy
that doesn't care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-
lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of
years? No, this really is meant to be more like one of those literal
dioramas of the traditional natural history museum, an imagining of a
real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous
detail.For here at the $27 million Creation Museum, which opens on May 28
(just a short drive from the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky
International Airport), this pastoral scene is a glimpse of the world
just after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in which dinosaurs
are still apparently as herbivorous as humans, and all are enjoying a
little calm in the days after the fall.It also serves as a vivid introduction to the sheer weirdness and
daring of this museum created by the Answers in Genesis ministry that
combines displays of extraordinary nautilus shell fossils and
biblical tableaus, celebrations of natural wonders and allusions to
human sin. ...The Creation Museum opens Monday at 2800 Bullittsburg Church Road,
Petersburg, Ky.; (888) 582-4253.
Then go and review the recent PBS miniseries on the Secrets of the Inquisition.
Are we that far away from that here in the US?
--Bry
[From Bill Powers (2007.05.29o.0855 MDT)]
Sorry – the old “forgot to include it” trick.
A forwarded post worth forwarding again.
[
http://www.shoutfile.com/v/kBjrdxU5/IT_Department_Of_The_Middle_Ages
](http://www.shoutfile.com/v/kBjrdxU5/IT_Department_Of_The_Middle_Ages)Best,
Bill P.
[From Bruce Nevin (2007.05.30 22:40 EDT)]
Bryan Thalhammer (2007.05.29.1055 CDT)--
Enter the Creation Museum.
http://www.re-discovery.org/per_table.gif
/Bruce Nevin