Comments on: Mainsttream OpEd Slams Hamm and Creation Museum https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/02/mainsttream-oped-slams-hamm-an/ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Steve https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/02/mainsttream-oped-slams-hamm-an/#comment-550335 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:37:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/02/mainsttream-oped-slams-hamm-an/#comment-550335 Either this place has good moderation principles or the fundie nutjobs haven’t found this yet.

In case it’s the former let me say “Yay science bloke, welcome to the sane side of the pond”

I case it’s the latter let me say “Anyone criticizing Ken Hamm is going straight to hay-ell, of course dinosaurs were veggie, whenever anyone suggests otherwise it makes the Baby Jeebus cry”. Now move along Christians, too many long words for you here…

]]> By: MPW https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/02/mainsttream-oped-slams-hamm-an/#comment-550334 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:55:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/02/mainsttream-oped-slams-hamm-an/#comment-550334 Good on the Courier Journal! The comment thread is fairly depressing, though, from a quick perusal. More disheartening even than the high incidence of standard creationist talking points is the amount of space expended on castigating Willmot for being “intolerant.” Even some people who say they disagree with the Creation Museum’s disinformation are chiding the writer for not being nice, or something. Some good sociologist, or media historian or someone like that, needs to write a history of the rise of this goofball conception of tolerance and objectivity, where any forthright critical language directed at someone in public is painted as being intolerant or even oppressive towards them.

That Ken Hamm and his colleagues at the “museum” are lying non-stop about the work scientists do, and more or less accusing them of massive and ongoing fraud, solely because their work doesn’t jibe with Hamm’s religious beliefs, somehow doesn’t strike the commenters as some kind of intolerance.

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