The Twin Cities Creation Science Fair has been suspended due to low participation.
Considering that belief in creationism is waning, particularly among young people, I guess I’m not too surprised. The last time I attended, too, most of the exhibits were just plain student science, with a pro forma Bible verse attached as required by the organizers, and it may also be that the home schooling parents would rather not be associated with an event hosted by the Twin Cities Creation Science Association. There is an MHA Science Fair, held in February as well, and their guidelines (pdf) are entirely secular.
Maybe for a change science is outcompeting religion.
Its dwindling because they have already discovered everything… not much to learn when you have to stop immediately and say “Gerd did it!”
They need bigger prizes. It worked for Templeton.
Stephen —
I thought Gerd was that gastric reflux deity.
Which actually explains a good bit, I suppose, about why that nonsense is so hard to stomach?
Pray hard, and a pair of chickens will produce enough droppings to provide energy for a whole ark.
The Minnesotans should follow this example now that they are losing interest in creationism:
“Ahoy! Swede builds giant pirate ship in his garden” http://www.thelocal.se/20151127/swedish-man-builds-giant-pirate-ship-in-garden
Far more interesting than Ken Ham bullshit.
They have a lifesize garden model of the Santa Maria a few kilometres from where I live:
http://www.fiedler.pl/sub,pl,santa-maria.html
(been there)