A Guide for Museum Docents

[thatguywhojuggles]

I saw this article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/13475583.htm

The article is selected quotes from the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, N.Y Guide on Evolution and Creationism.

It can be found here:
http://www.priweb.org/Evolution and Creationism.pdf

I haven't read the whole thing, but what I have read looks good.

Sorry if this is old news, I just stumbled across it.

Edited to add: Check out Chapter 7, Helpful Hints

 

[Ladewig]

I read most of the PDF and found this statement, at first, to be quite frightening.

Cornell Professor William Provine has polled students in the course he teaches on evolution for more more than a decade, and finds that Cornell undergraduates accept or reject evolution in proportions approximately equal to national opinion polls.

Then I remembered back to my undergraduate days and how there were more than a few people who would write anything on a survey form that had no bearing on their grade.

So, am I wrong and do half of the undergraduates at a tier-A university believe that it is not true that "human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals"?

 

[Dagny]

This guide was created specifically in response to an incident that happened shortly before I started my internship there: a group of creationists came in (and for some reason bought out our supply of Darwin fish in the gift shop) and surrounded a few of our docents and started demanding answers to their crazy claims. The most memorable was that they believed that mastadons burrow under the earth, which is why we find them buried when their remains are discovered and that their burrowing causes earthquakes.
Just thought I'd throw that out there.