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At 8:52 PM -0400 7/26/05, jason jay stevens wrote:
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>People are recording their own ("unofficial") audio tours of
>museums, and publishing them on the internet as podcasts, for
>anyone to download.
>
>For instance:
>Go to MoMA with an alternative audio tour on your MP3 player:
>http://homepage.mac.com/dave7/ArtMobs/FileSharing52.html
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>Wow! What a concept!
>The possibilities are endless.
>
>I think an intelligent design tour of a natural history museum would
>be very interesting.
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>jasonJayStevens
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>On Jul 26, 2005, at 10:02 AM, martin weiss wrote:
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>>Wayne;
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>>For a number of years since the opening of Prehistoric Journey at
>>Denver Museum of Nature and Science-and continuing to today, a
>>creationist has led tours of the exhibition lecturing his tours
>>about DMNS' incorrect interpretation of the fossil record (and
>>evolution) and the correctness of his creationist perspective.
>>Denver, a public institution, has been powerless to stop him and
>>have negotiated an agreement about his behavior while in the
>>museum with his tour.
>>
>>I suspect there are other ways that individuals and organizations
>>use us, and our exhibitions to promote their agendas, as egregious
>>as they maybe, which we are powerless to stop. They have a right
>>to their interpretation; they just cannot claim that we say what
>>we don't.
>>
>>Martin
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