As I mentioned, I’ll be heading off to the Creation Science Fair early tomorrow morning. I’m aiming to get there around tenish, but I do have a 3 hour drive, and there are hints of snow tomorrow, so I may be a little late. Feel free to start without me.
Afterwards, let’s do lunch before I turn around and head home!
From those photos of the previous fair, it looks like the kids are actually doing some pretty good science. I guess it’s just the parents who are screwed up – but then we knew that, right?
You going to be taking pictures and posting a dissection of the event? I’d be curious to see one, especially one where someone doesn’t go out of the way to mock these kids.
It’d be neat if you also actually talked and tried to educate some of the kinds who have it mindbogglingly wrong. Or even encourage the ones who are doing it right, even if their conclusions are wrong.
You read my mind, #2. That is my plan.
I’m headed in. I’ll be on the lookout for phellow Pharyngulites.
I’m here and have seen P.Z. and Greg. Interestingly (to me), only one of the presentations appears at all creationism-related–a thing about fossilization and how The Flood created proper conditions for it. Otherwise, all of these appear to me to be ordinary science-fair displays–some reasonably good, some a little weak–with a Bible verse tacked on.
No offense, but seems like quite a pointless burning of fossil fuels…and for what? To learn what you already know…which is that some people are creationists.
frank81@6,
Perhaps you missed the comments above: Tashiliciously Shriked@2 & our host @3 on the possible educational opportunity for the atheist/science group to give the kids there? Maybe just to ask a few questions to get those kids thinking?
#6 Frank
– I came from a world very similar to the one in which these kids live, though my experience was less “rigorous.”
– I’ll tell you this: Every minor, gentle, decent prod I got from “the other side” was a huge thing. And it was all cumulative. And there were few who bothered.
– Also, at least some of these kids are going to think differently than their parents did. Many of those differences will be subtle, but different enough to warrant at least an awareness, especially for anyone with the slightest interest in speaking into that world.