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This page is mainly in protest of the Creation Museum that opened in May of 2007. (Read more about it here) Damned Goods was one of the main organizers for the physical protest.
The physical protest occured on May 28th, 2007. Blue Rose Rocket played there. Check out their profile!
However, not only is this a protest against the museum, it is a protest against what the museum stands for: taking the Bible as literal truth.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the rational truth you find on this page.
Quotes: Fodder for Thought"When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, 'You're welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science.'"
-Victor J. Stenger
"They seek the imprint of science and scholarship to legitimize myth. This is a characteristic they share with all modern totalitarian movements, which co-opt the disciplines of law, science, medicine and scholarship to give a modern veneer to their primitive and superstitious belief systems, systems that allow the rulers to dictate reality and truth. The "paraprofessional" organizations formed by the Christian right, organizations of teachers, journalists, doctors, lawyers and scientists, mimic the activities of real professional groups. They seek to challenge the legitimacy and the power of the traditional organizations. The duplication of the structures and methods employed by the non-totalitarian world, the use of pseudo-science to dress up fantasy, is slowly undermining our legitimate scientific and educational institutions. It is destroying the foundations of our open society. It is ushering us into a world where lies are true."
-Chris Hedges
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
–Isaac Asimov
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.â€
–Isaac Asimov
"I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower from, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance."
–Charles Darwin
"(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park was shown in Israel, it was condemned by some Orthodox rabbis because it accepted evolution and because it taught that dinosaurs lived a hundred million years ago–when, as is plainly stated at every Rosh Hashonhan and every Jewish wedding ceremony, the Universe is less than 6,000 years old."
-Carl Sagan , The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p. 325
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand."
-Mark Twain, American writer and humorist, 1835-1910
"The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."
-Mark Twain, American writer and humorist, 1835-1910
"The Bible was written by the same people who said the Earth was flat."
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"'The Good Book'" -- one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined."
-Ashley Montagu
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
-Bertrand Russell
"All this miserable tale of the Devil and Eve, and an intercessor with the childish mummeries of the God of the Jews, is irreconcileable with the knowledge of the stars."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism
"As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might have been the very worst, in fact -- if we didn't also happen to have the Koran."
-Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation
"The Bible is the world's longest-running, most widely respected, and least reliable Rorschach Test. You can look in it and see anything you want to see, find anything you want to find, justify any pre-ordained conclusion you prefer--because the Bible has it all!"
-Richard S. Russell
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind; and for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel."
-Thomas Paine
"All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition -- then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity."
-Robert G. IngersollFavorite Links
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