$27 million anti-evolution museum to open soon

$27 million anti-evolution museum to open soon

Child abuse.

The museum has a planetarium. But its programs, unlike those at other planetariums, will say that the light from the stars we see did not take millions of years to get here.

There also is a reproduction of a portion of the Grand Canyon. The message there is that it was created very quickly, from the waters from Noah's flood. The fossils in rock layers there and in many other places around the world are of animals that drowned in the flood, the museum says.

Some of the exhibits would be the envy of any natural history museum.

There are, for example, 10,000 minerals from a collection that was donated to the museum, fossil dinosaur eggs from China that Ham says are worth $40,000, and a donated collection of dinosaur toys that has been valued at $50,000.

There also will be an exhibit suggesting that belief in evolution is the root of most of modern society's evils. It shows models of children leaving a church where the minister believes in evolution. Soon the girl is on the phone to Planned Parenthood, while the boy cruises the Internet for pornography sites.

Edit:
The more I think about it, this is awesome for atheists, we should organize field-trips!

[TheMercenary]

Yikes! that is scary stuff. People will go to no ends to turn fantasy into reality.

You want scary.
In seventeen states it is still illegal for an atheist to hold public office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8am5YCqwUbg

[richlevy]

Will it be open on Sunday?

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

In seventeen states it is still illegal for an atheist to hold public office.

[elSicomoro]

Only for Jews and Muslims...but they're not allowed from Friday evening to Saturday evening.

[Sundae]

Blimey.

They'd rather have a giffer queer than an atheist.
Who'da thunk it?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Blimey.

They'd rather have a giffer queer than an atheist.
Who'da thunk it?

Come on, you know polls have little to no statistical validity.

[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Come on, you know polls have little to no statistical validity.

Depends on the source...a lot of the bigger polls seem to be pretty solid from a scientific standard.

That one that UT posted looks so wrong though. But I don't think it's an issue with the mechanics of the poll...just the people polled.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Depends on the source...a lot of the bigger polls seem to be pretty solid from a scientific standard.

That one that UT posted looks so wrong though. But I don't think it's an issue with the mechanics of the poll...just the people polled.

It comes down to sample size and the Z. For example, a telephone poll of 400 people on the streets of San Francisco, Calif hardly can be extrapolated to "the people of the US would vote for..." The margin of error is the other thing that is important to note.

Telephone polls are some of the worst. All you did was sample people who have telephones.

The most amazing thing is often how small the sample size is. You hear it all the time on TV. "The number of Americans that would vote for X,Y, or Z is 45a%". Looking further you see the sample size was 846 people. Ok, please tell me how you extrapolate opinions of 846 people to 32 million people. It can't be done. The statistical validity hovers near zero.

Statistics, lies, and more statistics.

Polls are easily constructed through the pointed questions they ask to extract the information that the pollsters is after. Political polls and polls by special interest groups with very bland sounding names are some of the best at doing this. Did you ever get that telephone calll from some tighty-righty or lefty-loosey political organization? Listen carefully to the questions being asked. Often only yes or no answers with no clarification or middleground choice.

Polls.... spitoooie....

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Statistics, lies, and more statistics.

Such as "4 out of 5 dentists recommend Crispy Toothpaste." They don't tell you they asked 10 dentists, none of whom had teeth.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Telephone polls are some of the worst. All you did was sample people who have telephones.

I think the last poll that suffered from that error resulted in the Dewey Defeats Truman newspaper headline.

There are now more households with phones than without.

I've even been admitting a lot of homeless people with cellphones. I think they come into the hospital so they have a place to plug in their chargers.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Come on, you know polls have little to no statistical validity.

True - take the 2000 presidential election, for example.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

True - take the 2000 presidential election, for example.

Elections and Polls are not the same, sorry to burst your bubble on that one.

[elSicomoro]

I don't believe the majority of that poll...sounds way too PC. I'm not above giving people credit where credit is due, but 92% would elect a Jew? 88% a woman? 72% a Mormon? Bullshit.