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Here is a recent article (today) from the Chicago Tribune

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/chitribts/20050807/ts_chicagotrib/museumexhibitsacreationistviewpoint

Although some may know of this facility and the article does not shed much new information on this issue, it does raise one that I have not heard discussed before but one I thought I might enter into the discussion.

Certainly I fully support the right of the facility mentioned in the article to exist, although I may not believe in their faith.

But as I read this article the question that arose for me is that there was some company or companies that supplied this facility with the means to pull this off (designers, fabricators etc.).  Now I have no issue with any company making revenue but equally I may not want to send work from my institution to a company that felt that providing more sophisticated representations to help teach creationism was where they should be making money.  Similar to the fact that I may not accept donations from a company that has gotten its revenue through means I disagree with. 

I know this could be a touchy subject but thought it should be explored as it delves deep into our business in ways not yet discussed.  I would love to here people's ideas on this.


Wayne


Wayne J LaBar
Vice President, Exhibitions and Theaters
Liberty Science Center
251 Phillip Street
Liberty State Park
Jersey City, NJ 07305

voice: 201.451.0006 x-347
fax: 201.451.7046

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