Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh

[lsanderson]

A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT Peter Dodson, left, of the University of Pennsylvania, Michael Foote of the University of Chicago and Jon Todd of the Museum of Natural History in London watching a video at the Creation Museum.
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: June 29, 2009

PETERSBURG, Ky. — Tamaki Sato was confused by the dinosaur exhibit. The placards described the various dinosaurs as originating from different geological periods — the stegosaurus from the Upper Jurassic, the heterodontosaurus from the Lower Jurassic, the velociraptor from the Upper Cretaceous — yet in each case, the date of demise was the same: around 2348 B.C. More

Comments

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

It's all so simple.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

I loved John Scalzi's insightful and snarky report about the Creation Museum a couple of years ago. He posted that if people pledged enough in donations to Americans United for Separation of Church and State, he'd go to the Creation Museum. He wanted his fans to raise at least $250 for the better cause of keeping the First Amendment separation clause...they donated a total of $5,118.36. (And yes, I was one of those donations.)

[yarram.livejournal.com]

What croggles me are the obvious inconsitencies inferrable from the article: Land masses drifting apart in as short a time as Noah's flood would leave all sorts of traces we don't see in the record. If dinosaurs were around in Noah's time, why are there no Biblical descriptions of how they looked and how fearsome they were and how people built palisades to defend against these terrible monsters, and why did we then have to coin names like Tyrranosaurus Rex and "dinosaurs" to describe creatures that, according to creationists, should be in the historical record? The priceless line about invocation of magic is just barely scratching the surface...

[galacticvoyeur.livejournal.com]

I think we should leave it up to Fox News to decide who's right. After all, they're fair and balanced. Maybe we could also get them to set up a nice simple national science curriculum for us that explains everything in 100 words or less, too? Maybe kids wouldn't hate school so badly if they didn't need to learn so much stuff.