Why do they get to me so much?

I feel like screaming! On my way to San Antonio through the Hill Country about an hour from where I live, my family passed through Glen Rose which is a state park called Dinosaur State Park. There you can obviously see really neat fossils and footprints left by some huge dinosaurs. Anyway, along Highway 67 you pass the entrance to the park. There I saw a sign that looked painted quickly by hand in black letters, "Come visit the Creationism Museum."

Now, right there in front of Dinosaur State Park. I guess the "owners" of this museum were going to tell me that dinosaurs never existed or that they existed simultaneously 6,000 years ago when Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden.

Oh these fundies drive me crazy. Why does this get to me? Why?

especially in light of the magnificently willful ignorance these nutjobs must maintain next to a bunch of actual evidence (fossil records) of their (the creationists) absence of reason. ( was actually almost tempted to go in and check it out, till I found out all they had was graphs and "artists renderings".

That there is a new theory to explain how the Grand Canyon fits into that 5-7k year time frame the Xtian fundies cling to. And that the state park tourist shop has literature supporting this theory for sale.

I was furious when I saw it on CBS news. Our country funding this crappola. It is just wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

and ignorance, and enjoying it.

Maybe we should take a page out of their book and put little comic books about evolution under their windshield wipers in parking lots...or walk around from door to door with copies of Darwin's "Descent of Man" tucked under our arms.

Perhaps we should invite people to an open house at the ocal college's Biology/Zoology department, serve punch and cookies, and offer people the chance to celebrate the glorious gift of science that God has given us...

It's already a set of beliefs about the non-existence of a deity.

Evolution-Real science, supported by evidence.

Creationism-Sticking fingers in the ears and screaming "Is NOT!"

The Scientific Method - trying to disprove a theory by finding contradicting evidence. In this way science constantly improves its theories and refines them.

Evolutionary science - follows the scientific method, trying to disprove the theory of evolution.

Creation "Science" - trying to find evidence to justify a belief, and thus, not using the scientific method.

My teacher studied evolution in flies to recieve his doctorate; He attempted to disprove the theory by proving that different flies could occupy the same niche without out-competing one another (The idea is that many different flies will feed on a carcass and lay their eggs). From this he eventually realized that at different stages of decomposition, different flies have an advantage, thus proving one instance where different species have evolved for slightly different environments. An odd example, but it highlights my point well enough.

I lived in TX for five years and VA for twelve. I moved to MN ten years ago to escape, but it's starting to turn fundie up here as well. Mac Hammond has set up shop here and I just roll my eyes.

:shrug:

to deal with. I have blocked every damn religious channel on my satellite and I fancy myself as a spiritual person but I can't stand this fundie crap.

Only hypocrites pray out loud, so that other people can see them.

I'm not a believer in the conventional sense, but I have read the Bible cover to cover many times and I have all of the respect in the world for most of what the Gospels claim He said.

Peace.

:pals:

Institute for Creation Research - ICR is literally within 2 miles of me. Every time I leave the house I drive by it. The temptation is so strong sometimes to stop by...

Reminds me of my days in Norfolk, VA when I lived twenty miles from CBN, Pat Robertson's fundie palace.

Dinosaurs is a Secular Humanist word!

They'd rather believe what somebody else who hadn't read it told them.