06 January 2009

NYT tacit approval of Ken Ham's "Museum"

First the Cincinnati zoo goes in on a two-fer deal with Ken Ham. Now the New York Times is sponsoring events there?

...I was disappointed to see Kentucky’s notorious Creation Museum listed among the attractions in The New York Times’ Arts & Leisure Weekend Promotion heralded in a special pullout section of my newspaper last Sunday

During the Jan. 8-11 event, The Times sponsors public debates and discussions of contemporary issues and touts two-for-one admission discounts at museums, movies and shows in New York and around the country.

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This inclusion is troubling because the Religious Right is always angling to present dogma as science in public school science classrooms. It sends a very misguided message when the Creation Museum is listed in a Times-sponsored event alongside prestigious scientific institutions such as the American Museum of Natural History, Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkley.

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