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IDemo

(16,926 posts)
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 02:39 PM Jun 2014

New Boise creationist museum seeks to promote 'true science' by disputing evolution

A group of Idahoans dismayed by science education have opened the Northwest Science Museum offering a Biblical explanation of Earth's origins and disputing other explanations, such as evolution.

"We want to show a lot of science that's being censored and not presented to the public," said Doug Bennett, the museum's executive director.

The organizers have big plans. They formed a nonprofit, with one employee and several volunteers.

They're starting with a "Vision Center" — the current museum, housed in a small West Boise building next to a store that sells Magic the Gathering and other gaming supplies.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/06/18/3240797/new-boise-creationist-museum-seeks.html?sp=/99/101/102/#storylink=cpy

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New Boise creationist museum seeks to promote 'true science' by disputing evolution (Original Post) IDemo Jun 2014 OP
"Science"? peacebird Jun 2014 #1
It's true. You really can't fix stupid. nt COLGATE4 Jun 2014 #2
psssh, it's just an Adventist heresy; who's on kindling and stake duty? MisterP Jun 2014 #3
House of ignorance. sakabatou Jun 2014 #4
Just one more reason why the rest of the Pacific Northwest wants a divorce from Idaho. Aristus Jun 2014 #5
They want to show "the science censored by state-controlled museums" jmowreader Jun 2014 #6
Just wanted to add the comment IDemo Jun 2014 #7

Aristus

(66,310 posts)
5. Just one more reason why the rest of the Pacific Northwest wants a divorce from Idaho.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 03:21 PM
Jun 2014

Hail to the future Republic of Cascadia!

jmowreader

(50,552 posts)
6. They want to show "the science censored by state-controlled museums"
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 04:12 PM
Jun 2014

It's "censored" because it's not science.

And whose fucking idea was it to create a logo that looks, at first, second and third glances, like a golden calf? Turns out it's a golden mammoth (which of course Jesus is going to somehow fit the skeleton of in their itty-bitty strip-mall storefront museum) but the way it's drawn it looks like either a calf or the ass-end of an ape - which I thought it was at fourth through sixth glances.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
7. Just wanted to add the comment
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:56 PM
Jun 2014

"Magic the Gathering" would be a good name for a creationist group.

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