The RALLY FOR REASONhttp://www.rallyforreason.com Media: Edwin Kagin859-384-7000 or edwin@edwinkagin.com COALITION SUPPORTING GOOD SCIENCE, SOUND TEACHINGTO SPEAK OUT AT OPENING OF CREATIONIST MUSEUMSun-Mon. May 27-28, 2007 A broad coalition of secularist, religious, and educational groups and other advocates of “good science” will be protesting this Memorial Day weekend at the opening of a Creationist Museum in Kentucky. The Answer in Genesis Creationist Museum is a 60,000-square-foot facility that will feature state of the art exhibits and other presentations arguing on behalf of an Old Testament view of how human beings and the universe came into existence. It is meant as a statement against Darwinian evolution, and scientific findings that the cosmos is billions of years old, and that human beings evolved, along with other present-day creatures, from earlier life forms. Instead, “young Earth” creationist groups like AIG preach that the Earth is only about 6,000 years old. The museum will reportedly have exhibits reflecting the dubious claim that dinosaurs and human beings co-existed, contrary to scientific evidence. The RALLY FOR REASON includes groups and individuals who support objective science and high standards for science instruction in public schools. It includes religious and non-religious groups ranging from the Clergy Letter Project to the Institute for Humanist Studies and American Atheists. Edwin Kagin, organizer of the Rally stated that the protest does not challenge the right of AIG to present its views. “They can teach that things fall up if they wish,” said Mr. Kagin. “We’re simply trying to show that their views are based on a particular and narrow religious doctrine, not on good scientific evidence.” The RALLY FOR REASON will take place on Monday, May 28 2007 beginning at 9:00 AM in front of the Creation Museum, Petersburg Rd., Boone County, KY. More information can be found at http://www.rallyforreason.com. There will be a RALLY FOR REASON SPEAK-OUT hosted by the Free Inquiry Group of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky on Sunday, May 27, 200 at the Hilton Cincinnati Airport Hotel, 7373 Turfway Rd., Florence, KY beginning at 7:00 PM. Speakers will include Rev. Mendle Adams; Frank Zindler (biologist, geologist); Dr. Gene Kritsky (evolutionary biologist); Helen Kagin, physician and others. For info on that event, visit http://www.gofigger.org . Media: For commentary and further information on the RALLY FOR REASON, contact Edwin Kagin (edwin@edwinkagin.com) — phone: 859-384-7000 or visit http://www.rallyforreason.com
It should be a crime for parents to teach their childred to be stupid. This is absolute brainwashing. Fortunately their numbers are falling rapidly. Give it another generation and the numbers will be next to nil.
Comment from: DeepDiver
Hmmm…sounds like something Nero said…
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=26056
Wow…what an arrogant, racist comment…
Ellen should really study the writings from the Father’s of Modern science…
“Please don’t feed the trolls”
will be my sign at the site of the absurdity….
Just say no to religion
Um, how the hell is it arrogant or racist?
phreedm is a plant here, right? to stir up the already boiling pot…really is he/she a ringer? i’m sure i heard ringing just now in my right ear…tolerable as long as it doesn’t throw off my balance, but annoying enough to effect a trip to the druggist, as i am out of antiemetics.
Yes, yes, starve the Troll! Maybe he’ll go like one of those Gigapets… roll over on it’s back, x’s over it’s eyes as it dies from starvation.
Phreedy you worm. I am a scientist. Who the hell are the “Father’s of Modern science”? Please educate me oh blight-brained one.
CAB4reason
“starve the troll”
From what I can tell Phreedy le Phreak has been commenting here for years and will not be leaving soon – unless he finds a job or gets an education or otherwise gets a life.
So my recommendation is to simply ridicule Le Phreek rather than shun him. Although I do enjoy a good shun now and then.
I wish I could be at the rally. I will just have to imagine myself there dressed in a Flinstones costume and carrying a sign saying “Have a yabba dabba doo time, a dabba doo time, you’ll have a gay old time”
Yeah, I wish I could be there too – been hankerin’ for a nice, big, juicy brontosaurus burger.
Oh wait. I guess in this case it would be a behemoth burger, wouldn’t it phreedm?
“I wish I could be at the rally. I will just have to imagine myself there dressed in a Flinstones costume and carrying a sign saying “Have a yabba dabba doo time, a dabba doo time, you’ll have a gay old time” “
He-he, that’s funny, What. I like it!
I wish I could be there, unfortunately, I have things to do this weekend.
I live in Northern Kentucky myself, only about 10 miles or so from this uber-insult called the ?Creationism Museum?, and I live in the town that many of them are booking hotels in. I might pay the protest a visit myself, despite I might not be able to stay long or have anything to aid in protest. But just being there, even for 20 minutes, would be worthwhile to me since this appals me very badly.
This is against modern knowledge, actual history and what historians know and believe, against science and reason, and education. This is also a sign of terrible things to come, such as I feel that it shows potential for a Christian-based fascism (which is a problem, rather you are Christian or not)?
if it is a creationism museum
does it shows the sons of god fornicating with the daughters of men to produce giants like the bible says.
Reason
I am not an avid Buybull reader. How big
were those giants? Is that Old Testiemint?
Here’s from an article i wrote on my website:
“..There has been a great deal of protest in the US over the opening of the museum, which has somewhat delayed the previous scheduled opening. Alas, the effort is both in vain and counter-productive; regardless of the protestations of scientist and secularists, creationists simply refuse to accept any theory that undermines their religious convictions. Strong opposition only enforces the idea that they are being unfairly prosecuted by intellectual ?fascism?. The museum is not the cause of scientific ignorance in America; rather it is a symptom of it. Attempting to shut it down is tantamount to putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound.
s creationists further remove themselves from the inconvenience of reality, they will continue to build whatever institutions they can to house their antiquated beliefs. A museum is perhaps only the start for them. Their ambitions extend far further. But the intellectual havoc they create is not impossible to combat, nor is it necessarily permanent. The will of the general American public has to push strongly for scientific education.. Sadly, the average citizen is interested less in the pursuit of truth and more in the pursuit of happiness, which the museum undoubtedly fulfills for some. The way to fight this museum will therefore come not from protest, or even boycott, but from a campaign on the part of secularists of equal and greater vigor to ensure that we do not become complacent and uncaring about the importance of science and reason, lest it become hijacked by those concerned less with the truth of the natural world, but rather by Bronze age myths.”
what
the old testament, goliath was a giant
and giants were supposed to be a race created by the sons of god having sex with the daughters of men.
also there is a good book called harlot by the road ,telling how rabbis and preachers haved tried to clean up all the sex talk in the bible.
If you would like to sign a petition against the creationist museum’s false information dissemination, go to this site:
http://www.defconamerica.org/
There are two separate petitions, one for educators, and one for regular citizens.
karen,
Thanks! For the link to the petitions, I had to sign as regular, obviously
phreedm
I suggest you read this article on the *museum*.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/05/28/EDGFKQ1SI91.DTL
Here’s the final paragraph
emphasis mine
Karen,
You realize that the article you linked to is unacceptable to Phreedm. How could you fail to notice that it’s from San Francisco? This means that anything reported must be part of the radical homosexual agenda designed to undermine the moral fabric of society.
Sorry Remy
I caved.
It just seemed like so many others weren’t heeding the “Don’t Feed” sign, I fell in with the group.
Back to my corner for self-flagellation -or something- again.
HZ
I thought phreedm might be more disposed to this one even if it was San Franian. But without the info to compare, I guess he couldn’t know.
I know, the article is from the brazenly heathen San Fran area. But the Aussie one I read before that made fun of the US by ending the article with the fact that 3 republican candidates admitted they didn’t believe in evolution in one of the debates.
Interesting article…but it appears to be nothing more the professional jealousy…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=5&entry_id=16964
I think ole’ Gregory is wondering why a little museum in Kentucky is getting more attention then his pet project…thanks in part to AA…
Here’s an interesting line though…
Would you be so willing to modify your beliefs…?
There are many “facts” which question the concept of evolution and the creation of the universe…and point to a young earth…
It’s been my observation that non-believers simply ignore the question altogether…
phreedm
Sure, when evidence comes to light to refute my current beliefs, i will modify them.
Kaaaaaarrren,
Didn’t you ,your own self say something about not responding?
What most IDers don’t get is the fact (actually they don’t know what facts are)that any believer of Evolution will immediately change his or her mind if presented with credible evidence. It’s called critical thinking, a foreign concept to theists.