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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
peacebird
(14,195 posts)But the comments after the article qr great
"best new comedy show in Boise!"
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)sakabatou
(42,146 posts)Aristus
(66,310 posts)Hail to the future Republic of Cascadia!
jmowreader
(50,552 posts)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)"Magic the Gathering" would be a good name for a creationist group.