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Charlie;
Fat chance of getting to evaluation studies in that place! I bet you'd
have a line from here to there of evaluators who would give their eye
teeth or first born (not literally) to do studies in there.
Martin
On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Charlie Carlson wrote:
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> Creationists for whatever reason have a belief system that's not
> taking into account "evidence," we all do to some more or less
> extent. It's not bad, it's part of being human. It's not about the
> science, people that accept creation believes are doing so for other
> reasons unrelated to science and evidence based reasoning.
>
> I agree that ridiculing them isn't the way to go––I was just being
> cheeky.
>
> The best thing to do is to tell an interesting story of discovery,
> an adventure, with apprehensible practical benefits, be they social,
> economic or medical. Ideally, it's not movies, easily manipulated
> computer games, and authority-speak, but something inviting that's
> self-evident, and can be seen and experienced viscerally. That's
> typically hard to do. Ultimately, people will make their choices.
>
> There is no argument or prepared statement that's going to settle
> the matter. You can engage believers on the topic directly but that
> will not change them. It's about something else. You can agree to
> disagree.
>
> Now having written this, it seems to me like the Creationist Museum
> is the perfect place to study unscientific belief systems in the
> face of rationality and evidence. It could be a test bed for many,
> many evaluation studies.
>
> Just for clarification,
> Charlie
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Martin Weiss wrote:
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>> My experience suggests that there is no common ground for
>> discussion with most creationists. We are taking a position that we
>> are a science museum and present scientically verified or
>> verifiable information about the natural world in words to that
>> effect. We do not encourage debate as there cannot be a debate due
>> a lack of common understanding. That being said I personally have
>> engaged in heated discussions, no arguments with hard core
>> creationists to great emotional pleasure but significantly lower
>> intellectual pleasure. But not with museum visitors. Because of the
>> absence of common ground many scientists have disengaged from
>> debate with creationists.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone while hurtling on the Number
>> 7 IRT train . . .
>>
>> On Nov 18, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Greg Lester <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Today, the National Center for Science Education tweeted this link
>>> from Skeptic magazine. It is a PDF, sorry, but it is good guide
>>> for answering common creationist claims: http://bit.ly/xJ123?r=td
>>>
>>> As its subtitle promises, it contains:
>>> 25 Answers To Classic Creationist Arguments
>>> 10 Answers To Intelligent Design Creationist Arguments
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Greg Lester
>>>
>>>
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