Don't know if this is a Joke but someone is trying to set up an Evolution Museum .
The Plan
The proposed location for the Evolution Museum is right across the highway from the Creation Museum.

The Evolution Museum will be a non-profit and funded through online donations. The pillars of the non-profit will hold the values of transparency and social direction. All activities will be published online and members will be able to give guidance to the non-profit.


http://evolutionmuseum.org/index.php

Oh wait...You said evolution museum. Somehow my mind glossed over the word because of it's anti-ties to creation, and thought, here we go again.
Bravo.
Looking at the first month's donations, even if this is serious, it looks to be quite behind. Maybe they can get a boost from somebody big.

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Now, that's what I call showing both sides of the controversy!

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We already have "evolution museums."

They're commonly referred to as "museums." They already have one of those in the neighborhood.

I thought the same thing. Actually; I refer to them as natural history museums, but the idea's the same.

What is different though, that it will have a very "in-your-face" theme rather than just general history.

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I think its silly and gesture politics. Evolution theory does not need to compete with Creationism. To do so gives too much credence to Creationism as a "science".

Better to make a super huge and detailed museum somehwere with all the fossils, bones, and other evidence. Make it a classy science museum instead of a polemical type museum only created in order to debunk the "museum" across the street.

I doubt the people across the street are going to change their minds no matter what. So its a pointless excercise.

While I agree with you to a certain degree here...
The issue is the impressionable person that only sees the one view. As we have seen with CT, all it takes is some cleverly worded scientific sounding babble to convince someone.

When those points are taken point by point and explained why they are wrong, then they work better than general knowledge for those types. Sometimes it's hard to match the knowlege to specific details.

Jay wouldn't have such a good website otherwise.

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Here's a biologist's take on it. He calls it good idea, utterly horrible execution:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...rrible_exe.php

So; he is of the opinion that this is serious. I'm actually less convinced of that.

The biologist cites a journal that says he was approached by the website creator. While the science journal writere may be credible, he says nothing about the creator. The website lists no credible contacts that I can see.
Most serious projects like this usually get somebody notable on board that's willing to throw some reputation into it before releasing it to the public.

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Yea. And they are funded by the 'not-suppose-to-be-religious' government.

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Really? I suggest you read the post by "bearded One" entitled "Louisiana Creation friendly bill".

Is that not political? or is it simply intolerance?

The rules have exceptions for science related political topics. I also acknowledged the rules in my post and explained my why I thought my post was appropriate. Your post is of a clearly different nature.

I agree with Meyers on the subject, but you raised the first issue that crossed MY mind -- who in the heck is behind this and what do they intend to do and how do we know that they're not just asking for money and intend to run off with the $125 donation to ... oh... Georgia?

There was no address, no name, no nothing to build confidence on the site. Meyers said the website was "thin" but it's really just a pretty looking design with no content.

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