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Why not dump all non-Darwin museum donors?

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Possibly in advance of a political victory in 2016 that will provide unlimited public purse power, a Darwin follower muses thus:

I can name one large museum (but I won’t) that totally avoids human evolution (but not necessarily evolution in general) because there are private donors who don’t think humans evolved. The aforementioned human evolution exhibit funded by Koch is probably a mild example of bias. I’ve seen a lot of human evolution exhibits, and so far the few that are quite willing to challenge visitors’ religious or other anti-science beliefs were entirely state funded, as far as I know.

I think it is appropriate to ask the Smithsonian to dump the Kochs and their ilk as donors and board members, because such stark request can form the core of an activist approach that could cause positive change. But I also think we need to recognize the difficult position these institutions are in. We need not only to tell them to change how they do things, but to suggest alternative approaches and facilitate those approaches. Big educational exhibits at museums should routinely be funded by public money, as many already are. Perhaps private donations should be funneled through third parties that are devoid of nefarious intentions and shady ties. More.

Many of our readers are Americans. It amounts to: Fund crap or go to jail, right?

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In the US there is an established religion in violation of the first amendment to the constitution. That religion is atheism. Naturalism is a choice. There is plenty of evidence of God. In addition to many personal experiences, the historical evidence of witnesses to the the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, there is the fine tuning in cosmology, evidence for intelligent design in the origin and evolution of life, and is evidence of near-death experiences. But this is ignored by government in the schools and funding for scientific research and in government funding for museums. Choosing to ignoring God in the face of evidence is a religious choice.Jim Smith
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