This is SO wrong.

[buboniclou]

It's not enough for fundamentalists to scare off companies from helping teach human evolution in the rest of the country, they have to do it in New York CityThe Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors

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[hazeyjane]

i am so glad i'm canadian.

[buboniclou]

LOL

[dreamguy]

It's pretty disgusting that they couldn't get a corporate donor, but then I think trying to get profit-minded business entities to sponsor this stuff in the first place is pretty weird. Hooray from wealthy private donors so some greedy capitalistic advertisers don't stamp their logos all over.

And, as long as we are being disgusted, the Google ads sponsoring the news article are all anti-evolution (or apparently so) as well. "You can prove creation. Order free booklet" and "God's Great Creation Story" and "The bestselling book our scientists hope you never read."

God I hate stupid people.

[perfectpiaffe]

Google ads work by simply picking up on key words. I'm not sure it deserves complete disgust.

I am SO sick of creationism. I guess I just don't understand how people can HONESTLY believe that a God created everything. It seems like it goes against basic common sense...

[dreamguy]

Well, with the Google ad words of course it's on key words, but then why aren't there pro-evolution things up on those keywords since we know that it's a big issue these days? From that and other things it's like the pro-science people have given up... but then I guess the exhibit in question here in the news article is one good thing.

And, yeah, intelligent design aka creationism is built on a fundamental logical fallacy. "Oh, well, the world is too complex for it to have happened on its own, someone with a lot of power and intelligence must have created it." "Errrr, but then this 'someone' -- and by this you of course mean your standard Judeo-Christian Zeus substitute -- would have to be pretty amazingly powerful and intelligent then, so would have to be more complex than even the entire universe... and didn't you just say that something complex means something else had to have existed to create it? So who created this 'someone' of yours?"

[itsalljustaride]

NUH UH! GOD IS TEH FIRST CAWZ! HE DOESNT NEED NO CAWZ CUZ HES UNCAWZD!

I can't say I blame them

[eol_nanelmoth]

All things considering, I cannot say I blame any one company not wanting to take one side or another, especially if they share a similar opinion I do.

Each side has it's valid points. Why offend on customer when you "service" another? Unless what you have as a "produce" depends on one believing in evolution or creationism. Why can't we settle on both and be done with it.

Though I suppose I would be affending someone out there...cause I missed the memo that scientists are suppose to be athiests. *rolls eyes*

Re: I can't say I blame them

[buboniclou]

I do. I very much blame them, because otherwise corporations are afraid to contribute to free speech and the general educational welfare of society. They CAN contribute to both sides; if, say, BP wanted to sponsor the creationism museum's exhibit on why dinosaurs are far too recent to have turned into fossil fuel, let's say, just out of sheer irony, they could. They could also give money to either presidential candidate in any race, and I'll guess that they did. But the point is they're AFRAID to back one because of the fear of wrath from the other side. You ask why they should offend one customer and serve another? Maybe if the creationist side, politically, weren't so goddamn defensive and so hyped up about having a persecution complex, they wouldn't BE offended by someone's sponsorship of "the other side." We can't "settle on both" if one side or the other insists on being the only one heard.

And fyi, I know plenty of non-atheist scientists. I'm one.