| Showdown at the Creation Museum Posted: 13 Aug 2009 03:45 PM PDT
On Friday more than 280 atheists and agnostics converged on the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY.  creation museum adam and eve The Creation Museum is a museum dedicated to the Biblical creationism, and is an arm of Christian apologetics ministry Answers in Genesis. The purpose of the trip according to the Secular Student Alliance, a network of more than 145 student groups atheist and agnostic student groups, was to explore “a worldview with which they largely disagree,” not to cause a disturbance or disrupt the museum’s usual operation. “It should be great fun. I’ve got a long list of questions to ask,” said PZ Myers before going on the trip. “I’m going to have to prune it down a lot.” When the 285-strong SSA arrived at the Creation Museum, they were indeed well-behaved though some members of the group mocked several of the museum’s displays and astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle’s lecture at the museum. “We frequently come across blog comments from atheists and agnostics who visit the museum with their minds already made up and prepared to mock,” said Creation Museum co-founder and chief communications officer Mark Looy. “But we note that they scoff at anyone who believes in a god, whether that person accepts the historicity of the Bible or not,” he said. “These are people who would probably not even think about attending church, and here, they got the Gospel message. We are grateful for the opportunity to share with them.” |
| Harvey Milk, Mary Robinson most controversial of medal of freedom recipients Posted: 13 Aug 2009 02:42 PM PDT
Yesterday, President Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to late gay rights advocate Harvey Milk. "His name was Harvey Milk, and he was here to recruit us – all of us – to join a movement and change a nation," Obama said during of Milk during the presentation. “In the brief time in which he spoke – and ran and led – his voice stirred the aspirations of millions of people. His message of hope – hope unashamed, hope unafraid – could not ever be silenced.” Milk’s selection as a medal of freedom recipient comes on the heels of mounting criticism from gay rights organizations, who say that Obama has failed to fulfill campaign promises such as the repealing of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” policy. Critics, such as Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, said that Milk didn’t deserve the award because he was a sex addict "who did dishonorable deeds and does not deserve a medal or a statewide ‘day of significance.” Another controversial medal recipient was former Irish President Mary Robinson. Pro-Israel groups, such as the AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League, criticized Obama for choosing Robinson because of her failure to halt expressions of anti-Semitic hatred during the 2001 Durban conference over which she acted as the United Nations high commissioner of human rights. In addition to Milk and Robinson, other honorees included physicist Stephen Hawking, Sen. Ted Kennedy, retired civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Chita Rivera and Sidney Poitier, geneticist Dr. Janet Rowley, economist and micro financier Mohammed Yunus, Dr. Pedro Jose Greer, Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Komen Foundation founder Nancy Brinker and former Tennis pro Billie Jean King. |
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