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NI culture minister wants creationist museum

Good Lord, I thought these nutcases were found only in America's Bible Belt. I mean, this guy believes that Ulster Protestants are one of the lost tribes of Israel? And he's Northern Ireland's Minister of Culture? How the hell did he get that job?
 
You know, I read this thread title, and I thought: must be a Democratic Unionist.

It feels good to be right. :)
 
The Democratic Unionist minister said the inclusion of anti-Darwinian theories in the museum was "a human rights issue"

What a pant load that is.

I just love how these folks turn this argument around to them being persecuted for their beliefs.

Well, I believe the Earth is a triangle. The whole "Earth is round" idea is just a theory anyway, based on dubious science. I want my beliefs reflected in classrooms and museums around the world, or my human rights will be violated.

:rolleyes:
 
1001001 said:
The Democratic Unionist minister said the inclusion of anti-Darwinian theories in the museum was "a human rights issue"

What a pant load that is.
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you said 'load'. :lol:

1001001 said:
I just love how these folks turn this argument around to them being persecuted for their beliefs.

Well, I believe the Earth is a triangle. The whole "Earth is round" idea is just a theory anyway, based on dubious science. I want my beliefs reflected in classrooms and museums around the world, or my human rights will be violated.

:rolleyes:
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umm, no, you're wrong. the Earth is round.

and it's got a tootsie-roll center.

stop mocking my beliefs and stuff!

The Badger said:
Oh for the love of Ceiling Cat. Imbecility is the one true human constant.
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sad but true...
 
Well, if they could make some really cool interactive exhibits of Creation it would attract more people to the museum.

Press here to create a cow out of thin air.

*pushes button*

ZAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP!!!!!!

Mooooo....
 
This part cracked me up:

Nelson McCausland, who believes that Ulster Protestants are one of the lost tribes of Israel, has written to the museum's board of trustees urging them to reflect creationist and intelligent design theories of the universe's origins.
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I suggest that in this museum, they should put the Gobleki Tepe Sphinx from 9,500 B.C, some Mesolithic cave drawings from 10,000 B.C and of course something from the Hall of Bulls in Lascaux from 16,000 B.C. :devil:
 
McCausland's party colleague and North Antrim assembly member Mervyn Storey has been at the forefront of a campaign to force museums in Northern Ireland to promote anti-Darwinian theories.

Storey, who has chaired the Northern Ireland assembly's education committee, has denied that man descended from apes. He believes in the theory that the world was created several thousand years ago, even though the most famous tourist attraction in his own constituency – the Giant's Causeway on the North Antrim coast – is according to all the geological evidence millions of years old.

Last year Storey raised objections to notices at the Giant's Causeway informing the public that the unique rock formation was about 550m years old. Storey believes in the literal truth of the Bible and that the earth was created only several thousand years before Christ's birth.
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Yes, by all means. Let's put people like this in charge of the legislative committees dealing with education.
 
Someone gotta ask him what he thinks of incest, and then ask him how he thinks mankind developed from Adam and Eve only.
 
I don't get this "the earth is only 10,000 years old" theory. Nowhere in the Bible does it say anything like that. I went to a private school growing up, and this is the kind of stuff that was taught. Fortunately I had somewhat of an interest in science outside of school and possessed the ability to sort out facts from nonsense, otherwise I'd probably be in favor of this guy's argument.
They used to tell us that the sun was shrinking, and that if you projected the rate of shrinkage back much longer than ten thousand years, the earth would have been swallowed up by the sun. So basically, where earth is now, that space was occupied by the sun. So the sun was pretty much as big as the entire solar system.:rolleyes: Therefore, there could not have been an earth millions or billions of years ago. And of course, there won't be one for much longer, because bad weather and war in the middle east = Armageddon!
 
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