BTW, the Creationism "museum" opened this weekend

Its funny how many people still refuse to accept the validity of scientific fact. I went to high school in Tennessee and it surprised me how many of the kids at my school didn't believe in evolution. Oh well, I guess I should be thankful that my gene pool isn't only ankle deep.
 
I have already planned a road/plane trip to the Museum with my friend, both of us adorned in our most sac-religious shirts available :lol:
 
Pawe said:
I have already planned a road/plane trip to the Museum with my friend, both of us adorned in our most sac-religious shirts available :lol:
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You have to take a picture of one of you guys riding the triceratops with said sac-religious shirts on.
 
Actually I wouldn't mind visiting such a museum, I fear this one might be more amusement park than museum :(.

Science is advanced most by the men who have constantly challenged the ideas of the day: Copernicus, Galileo, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Newton, Tesla, Einstein, Hawkins have all challenged the commonly held principles of their days. If they hadn't then science would not have advanced. Some of them did this even under threat of death for their actions had they been discovered, and some were punished.

I think it is important for each rising generation to realize that we are not omnipotent. Our understanding of the Earth and the Universe is vastly limited compared to the whole, and as such some of our ideas or concepts may not be true.
 
Mecinia Lu-a said:
Actually I wouldn't mind visiting such a museum, I fear this one might be more amusement park than museum :(.

Science is advanced most by the men who have constantly challenged the ideas of the day: Copernicus, Galileo, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Newton, Tesla, Einstein, Hawkins have all challenged the commonly held principles of their days. If they hadn't then science would not have advanced. Some of them did this even under threat of death for their actions had they been discovered, and some were punished.

I think it is important for each rising generation to realize that we are not omnipotent. Our understanding of the Earth and the Universe is vastly limited compared to the whole, and as such some of our ideas or concepts may not be true.
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Yes, but this museum is exactly what those wise people you listed were challenging in the first place.
 
Fluffy said:
Yes, but this museum is exactly what those wise people you listed were challenging in the first place.
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You do realize that many of those men still deeply believed in God. Their discoveries for those that believed in God never diminished their Faith. What is happening today is that folks want to remove God from all things, in their own way they are as bad as the Catholic church at the time of Galileo who persecuted him for his discoveries and basically he finished his days under house arrest. They want to stifle anyone who offers an alternative viewpoint, which hurts science rather than helps it.
 
Mecinia Lu-a said:
You do realize that many of those men still deeply believed in God. Their discoveries for those that believed in God never diminished their Faith. What is happening today is that folks want to remove God from all things, in their own way they are as bad as the Catholic church at the time of Galileo who persecuted him for his discoveries and basically he finished his days under house arrest. They want to stifle anyone who offers an alternative viewpoint, which hurts science rather than helps it.
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Huh, I never mentioned anything about their beliefs. All I was stating that the people you listed were the ones challenging the long established ideas that this museum is representing.

I don't see what any of that has to do with what you posted. But, I guess posting about this ridiculous museum was bound to turn into some form of Science vs. God debate.
 
I might of been brought up typically in my english background (christrian), but I don't follow religion any more. I see the bible as a nice set of stories, to teach people good set of principles to follow in life, but there just that stories, not to be taken literally. They didn't really happen...

Pretty much all religions have that though, a set of text, they use to teach followers of that said religion there beliefs of right and wrong, how they should live there lives, and it's just all too close minded for me. They are pretty much all the same, some good alittle too much to the extreme than I like, but from a research point of view it's of interest. I like to be free to think for myself, thats just who I am.

I'm no rebel without a cause, I have a strong set of morals, a good person to those who know me, but I've taken my principles from many of religions and cultures. I'm open minded to all those I met, I have no problem if others which to be strictly religious, I just am not one of them, not in the slightest, but I will respect if you are.

I just will not be restricted by what I can and can not do, will not be told what to do, especially if I have no desire to do it, and vice versa.

I'm sure some will be offend by my generalisation, but then you also have to question your own religion by how you live you life within the structure that it restricts you. Is your own freedom restricted by the religion you hold so dear?
 
To believe in God and afterlife is one's own choice, too many people in the history and still today are committing crimes in the name of God to satisy their own wishes or fulfil their own ambitions.

True believers will not force anything on anyone for the simple fact that its the God's wish to leave the choice to human's.
 
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