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Interesting perspective and it made for good late night reading.
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From: Informal Science Education Network on behalf of Nik Charov
Sent: Thu 6/9/2005 9:41 AM
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Subject: Re: Tulsa Zoo and Creationism
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Dave Smith gets the quote of the day with "I'm convinced that both religion
and science would be stronger if we focused on wonder rather than on
answers." Right on. (If wonder paid my bills, I'd be debt-free tomorrow.
Stupid modern world and its creditors, always looking for answers.) :-)
Runner-up for Quote of the Day: "Couldn't the Zoo just install a statue of
that GOP icon to cover all the other bases?" -- Don Stidsen, MIT Museum.
Funny because it's true: according to the last sentence in the CNN article
on the story ( http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/08/zoo.display.ap/index.html),
the Republican elephant was already present.
But here's a nugget to chew on, when we talk about putting religion and
science side by side in exhibitions: what about including the beautiful and
elegant sentiment that "truth cannot contradict truth?" I love that idea.
http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02tc.htm Say what you will about
the authors' other stances, but for once, I think they got something right:
for questions about the physical realm, science does (or will) have all the
answers. Meanwhile, leave the spiritual (faith-requiring) realm to the
clerics. Apples and oranges, just like the brilliant Teaching Evolution
site at Berkeley says.
Final thought: if God (or Ganesh, or Big Mama, etc.) created the multiverse,
then didn't He/She/It also create science? How could science, then, ever be
wrong? I guess in the same way sin exists and is wrong. Sigh. I'm getting
frustrated. I just read the Times piece on the Bush Administration's
shameful, nefarious editing of global warming documents:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html?ei=5094&en=54e7b91
1a5d025aa&hp=&ex=1118289600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html?ei=5094&en=54e7b9
11a5d025aa&hp=&ex=1118289600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print>
Ugh. Like Opus in Bloom County, I need a dandelion break... and it's only
10:30.
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Nik Charov
New York Hall of Science
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