From: John W Burgeson (jwburgeson@juno.com)
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 05:20:43 EST
I stumbled on this strange web site today --
http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html
I cannot say for sure if it is a parody on creation science -- or if it
sincerely is trying to promote creation science.
The page describes a creationist "science fair." The experiments seem
ludicrous. It describes a "Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair." on
April 16th, 2001. From the text: "Fellowship is proud to be host to one
of the largest Creation Science Fairs in the country, this year we had
over 200 students present their projects. This is also the first year
that Muslim students from the Al-Jannah Islamic school have been invited
to participate; two of their students presented a project on human
anatomy entitled "Allah (SWT) Created Me" which, while it was found
ineligible for a prize due to a number of Biblical inconsistencies, did
win a special Interfaith Outreach ribbon.
One of the projects was described as follows: "Jonathan Goode (grade 7)
applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion
that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a
lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying
groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to
carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making
them the natural choice for child rearing; social sciences show that the
wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that
they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics
shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker.
At the high school level, this experiment won 1st prize:
"1st Place: "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In
Bacteria"
Eileen Hyde and Lynda Morgan (grades 10 & 11) did a project showing how
the power of prayer can unlock the latent genes in bacteria, allowing
them to microevolve antibiotic resistance. Escherichia coli bacteria
cultured in agar filled petri dishes were subjected to the antibiotics
tetracycline and chlorotetracycline. The bacteria cultures were divided
into two groups, one group (A) received prayer while the other (B)
didn't. The prayer was as follows: "Dear Lord, please allow the bacteria
in Group A to unlock the antibiotic-resistant genes that You saw fit to
give them at the time of Creation. Amen." The process was repeated for
five generations, with the prayer being given at the start of each
generation. In the end, Group A was significantly more resistant than
Group B to both antibiotics.
Finally -- the "required on all fundamentalist web sites" link to the
salvation message takes one to this amazing page:
How would you answer the Baby Jesus?
Before you do, please consider that the Baby Jesus loves you -
unconditionally! Even if you have sinned, the Baby Jesus will still be
there for you and will forgive you. The Baby Jesus can save you from the
pain and suffering of the world and all He asks of you is that you return
His love. Is that so much to ask for Salvation?
I'm stumped. surely this is satire? But I'm not really sure. Too much
else on the site is the usual creationist nonsense.
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
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