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	Well, it is going to happen. A bit depressing but inevitable.


Compare these perspectives on the new Creation Museum.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070326_a_world_where_lies_are_true/

An interesting cultural experiment is taking place in Petersburg 
Kentucky, near the Ohio border. The experiment will shed light on the 
following question: How much money and glitz does it take to 
institutionalize a scientific lie? Of course, 'buying' reality is not 
a new idea, especially in politics. And institutionalized attacks on 
science are also not new, from the Nazi campaign against 'Jewish 
Physics', to the postwar Soviet effort against Genetics. But the 
Kentucky experiment differs from these by borrowing a recipe from 
sideshows throughout the ages, reminiscent of the film, 'The Wizard 
of Oz', namely: smoke, mirrors, and high-tech gimmicks. A lot will be 
riding, in this case, on how effective the man behind the curtain 
will be. Great media fanfare is already beginning to surround the 
official opening later this month of the $27 Million Creation Museum, 
close to the Cincinnati airport. Designed to oddly resemble natural 
history museums throughout the world, this will be a supernatural 
history museum, denying most, if not all, of natural history on this 
planet as centuries of careful study and experimentation have 
revealed it.

For more . . . .


http://www.scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=31&idContribution=617

And this review from the NY Times

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html

Comments anyone? Yes, the exhibits seem well done and the science is 
probably OK but the narrative?



Martin



-- 
Martin Weiss, Ph.D
Vice President, Science
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111 th Street
Corona, New York 11368
718 699 0005 x 356

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