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ITHACA, N.Y. - Lenore Durkee, a retired biology professor, was volunteering as a docent at the Museum of the Earth here when she was confronted by a group of seven or eight people, creationists eager to challenge the museum exhibitions on evolution.
They peppered Dr. Durkee with questions about everything from techniques for dating fossils to the second law of thermodynamics, their queries coming so thick and fast that she found it hard to reply.
After about 45 minutes, "I told them I needed to take a break," she recalled. "My mouth was dry."
That encounter and others like it provided the impetus for a training session here in August. Dr. Durkee and scores of other volunteers and staff members from the museum and elsewhere crowded into a meeting room to hear advice from the museum director, Warren D. Allmon, on ways to deal with visitors who reject settled precepts of science on religious grounds.
Similar efforts are under way or planned around the country as science museums and other institutions struggle to contend with challenges to the theory of evolution that they say are growing common and sometimes aggressive.
If that aint Truth, I dont know what is.article said:"It is no wonder that many biologists will simply refuse to debate creationists or I.D.ers," [former biology professor Dr. Durkee] said, using the abbreviation for intelligent design, a cousin of creationism. "It is as if they aren't listening."
Nymphalidae said:The sad thing is, those Creationists probably thought they had won because they spent 45 minutes harassing an old woman.
Electric Sceptic said:How come I've never met (or encountered, or read about) any of those?
Because thinking creationists don't stay creationists for very long.Electric Sceptic said:I note in that article that Dr. Allmon, who directs the Paleontological Research Institution, an affiliate of Cornell University, talks of two types of creationist, and describes one type as a "thinking creationists who want to know answers, and they are willing to listen".
How come I've never met (or encountered, or read about) any of those?
Electric Sceptic said:I note in that article that Dr. Allmon, who directs the Paleontological Research Institution, an affiliate of Cornell University, talks of two types of creationist, and describes one type as a "thinking creationists who want to know answers, and they are willing to listen".
How come I've never met (or encountered, or read about) any of those?
Electric Sceptic said:I note in that article that Dr. Allmon, who directs the Paleontological Research Institution, an affiliate of Cornell University, talks of two types of creationist, and describes one type as a "thinking creationists who want to know answers, and they are willing to listen".
How come I've never met (or encountered, or read about) any of those?
Because you're more likely to meet the other kind he talks about. The proselytizing loon is many times more likely to confront you than the more passive, interested people. If you look around, you'll find people with honest questions trying to understand evolution. Look at Fledge, who posts on these boards. Fledge is often asking honest questions in hopes of understanding. Still a creationist, I presume, but he's not rabidly attacking us.Electric Sceptic said:I note in that article that Dr. Allmon, who directs the Paleontological Research Institution, an affiliate of Cornell University, talks of two types of creationist, and describes one type as a "thinking creationists who want to know answers, and they are willing to listen".
How come I've never met (or encountered, or read about) any of those?
Nymphalidae said:The sad thing is, those Creationists probably thought they had won because they spent 45 minutes harassing an old woman.
LittleNipper said:The sad this is, the old woman probably thought she had won because she could simply excuse herself and turn the creationists off.
Nymphalidae said:My point was that they were harassing an old woman. Is that the Christian thing to do?
AirPo said:Perhaps they should fight fire with fire and arrange a trip to a creationist museum and ask a bunch of questions.
AirPo said:Perhaps they should fight fire with fire and arrange a trip to a creationist museum and ask a bunch of questions.
LittleNipper said:The sad this is, the old woman probably thought she had won because she could simply excuse herself and turn the creationists off.
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