Christian Fundamentalist Goes To Science Museum To ‘Audit’ Its Liberal Bias, Makes Ass Of Self

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3. PZ Myers blogged about this yesterday.

Here: Smug and Stupid

Of course, PZ is a developmental biologist, a professor at Univ. of Minn. so his take down is particularly caustic, with good reason.

A little sample:

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I watched the whole thing, appalled. Here’s a summary of just the first few minutes — if you get sickened by this, you don’t need to watch the rest, it’s all the same.

She’s reading an explanatory panel at the start of the exhibit. It says,

At first, all eukaryotes were single-celled, and many still are today.

This baffles her. She hasn’t heard of this word, “eukaryote”, before — the camera man tells her how to pronounce it — and she’s already stumped.

"This makes no sense. No sense."

What makes no sense? Two billion years ago, all eukaryotes were single-celled. There weren’t any multicellular organisms yet. Frogs, people, salmon, and fruit flies all evolved much, much later. But yeast, paramecia, and algae, all single-celled eukaryotes, still exist today.

<Much more take down at link>

PZ is a gem. And the commenters on PZ's Blog, Pharyngula, rarely disappoint. Highly recommended.