Kansas Museum Opens Evolution Exhibit

[Zenlitened]

Kansas Museum Opens Evolution Exhibit

By JOHN MILBURN
The Associated Press

LAWRENCE, Kan. - Upstairs from the Natural Selections gift shop is what directors of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas believe will be the latest word in an ongoing ruckus over evolution.

The "Explore Evolution" exhibit is part of a six-university program to educate the public about evolution and its role in explaining the natural world. The exhibit opens to the public Nov. 1, with the money coming from a $2.8 million National Science Foundation grant.

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Krishtalka said all visitors are welcome, though he expects that some, including advocates of intelligent design, will come looking to debate evolution. Intelligent design - a concept Krishtalka calls "creationism in a cheap tuxedo" - says some features of the natural world are best explained by an intelligent cause.

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Earlier this month, John Calvert, a retired Lake Quivira attorney who helped found the Intelligent Design Network, called the exhibit "in-your-face evangelism," designed to promote evolution as a creed.
:rofl:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/247-10252005-560393.html

:D Imagine that. A natural history museum installing an exhibit about... natural history.

[madeline_con]

1. "creationism in a cheap tuxedo"

I would have said "powder blue leisure suit".

[sakabatou]

2. I would like to see a FSM exhibit in a museum.

[DRoseDARs]

5. I'll see your FSM and raise you an Invisible Pink Unicorn display. n/t

[Zenlitened]

6. You are blatantly discriminating against the invisible dragon in my garage

:D

[Ediacara]

7. Whatever happened to the IPU?

Has she been devoured by the FSM?

[Tesha]

8. She's on hiatus, creating other worlds with more-intelligent life on them.

Bless her dainty hooves!

Tesha

[WildClarySage]

3. "evolution as a creed"--- which is, of course, the opposite of ID???

:eyes:

[philarq]

4. and right there in the line from monkey to ape...

right before evolved man...........is ...........(wait for it)


CHIMPY



hehe--I just could not resist--I love the name

[Barking Spider]

9. Recent Letter to Kansas Museum of Natural History

This is the type of sentiment Science in Kansan is up against. :eyes:

Recent Letter to Kansas Museum of Natural History:
I just wanted to let you know that you've just lost a customer. I have always enjoyed visiting your museum, but now that you have the "Evolution" exhibit ruining your museum from within like a disease, I will never set foot in it again.

It's obvious that you do not care that our Lord Jesus Christ is being blasphemied here because you are choosing to second guess the teachings of the Holy Bible. You are wasting your time and money on an idiotic concept that is purely theory, not fact whatsoever. You are contradicting the Holy Bible, and I just hope that you feel bad about what you have started and plead for forgiveness before it's too late.

You are embarrassing the entire city of Lawrence in addition to the state of Kansas and the MidWest, and just know that I speak for thousands that will never aid in your museum's financial existance ever again. The only way I will enter your doors is if I have a mouth full of spit that needs getting rid of.

{name witheld to protect the moronically insane}