It's hard not consider Alberta the land of radical right-wing redneck reactionary rubes when the Big Valley Creation Science Museum opens this week. Just like Walnut Boat, this page bristles at the term 'Creation Science' because the truth is, there's no science involved.
While Creationism and Evolution are both considered theories, the term 'theory' is regularly applied to such endeavours as art, music, and philosophy. It's the hypothesis that forges the anchor of the scientific method: maybe it's time rational people stopped taking the church's bait and started referring to evolution as a hypothesis. What's the difference between a theory and a hypothesis? There are scientists out there conducting research to prove the hypothesis, and are willing to live the fact that the facts might not bear it out. A theory, on the other hand, just sits there and hopes the facts will bend to its will.
However, to be fair, there is substantial and well-known evidence that humans and dinosaurs lived together at one time. Unfortunately for the nutbars in Big Valley waiting on a tourism bonanza, there are far more entertaining places for future generations to believe it.
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I'm pretty sure most of Alberta shouldn't have to carry the bag for this. In fairness, we also host Canada's greatest evolutionary science museum. And since the point of the "creation museum" is to be a counter-argument, if the Tyrell was in Toronto, the crazy museum would probably have set up in Mississauga.
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