Evolution, Anyone?

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New museum says dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark

PETERSBURG, Ky (Reuters) - Like many modern museums, the newest U.S. tourist attraction includes some awesome exhibits -- roaring dinosaurs and a life-sized ship

But only at the Creation Museum in Kentucky do the dinosaurs sail on the ship -- Noah's Ark, to be precise.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070526/us_nm/usa_museum_dc (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070526/us_nm/usa_museum_dc)

Sounds reasonable to me.

[swampfox]

Anybody here like to be operated on by a surgeon trained with books a few thousand years old and NO hands-on training? That's what people who built and who would (presumably) admire this museum are doing. If they say no to the surgeon under the same circumstances, where is their consistency? Where is their faith?

Scientists work by observing, sometimes with the aid of tools like microscopes and telescopes, and then trying to find some pattern that would explain their observations, and if none can be found, starting over. Thus do biologists discover new forms of life (new to us), astronomers discover new stars, and doctors find new cures. Science progresses, and becomes better able to explain the things that it can explain.

But in the end people believe whatever makes them comfortable. Some believe that they were abducted by aliens, but most were not. Some believe that rotting meat is the source of maggots, not believing the thing about flies laying their eggs there. Some still don't think we went to the moon in 1969 and several times thereafter.

And this evolution thing is not a quarrel between scientists. It is between scientists and anti-scientists. Let's see them put their money where their mouth is next time they or a loved one need medical care.

Of course some already do this. Christian Scientists (not really scientists), some fundamentalists. They have shown repeatedly that they will let their children die when they could have been cured, but they allow the deaths and call it God's will. I don't believe that God intends for children to die when He has given doctors the knowledge to save them.

Does anybody think differently? While still being consistent? If not, why the inconsistency?