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To: DGray
The museum mobbers were not there to learn about evolution. They were there to keep the docent from presenting the material.

What material was the docent prevented from presenting?

If she's giving a presentation, I repeat: no questions until she's done, no problem. If "presenting the material" is answering questions, she was doing her job, answering questions.

There is no evidence to back up your hyperbole and fantasy: "nasty, disruptive, MOB, prevented".

Back to reality, bub.

141 posted on 09/20/2005 8:31:30 AM PDT by JohnnyZ (I'm marrying a woman before they make gay marriage mandatory!)
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To: JohnnyZ
What material was the docent prevented from presenting?

Well, let's look at the average docent's job. There is a number of exhibits that the docent is to walk people through and provide a basic intro about what the exhibit addresses. There's time for two or three questions at each exhibit, then she must move to the next one. The purpose is to provide an overview of what the museum has to offer. From the article, this is what occurred:

Lenore Durkee, a retired biology professor, was volunteering as a docent at the Museum of the Earth here when she was confronted by a group of seven or eight people, creationists eager to challenge the museum exhibitions on evolution.

They peppered Dr. Durkee with questions about everything from techniques for dating fossils to the second law of thermodynamics, their queries coming so thick and fast that she found it hard to reply.

if you don't see that behavior as "nasty, disruptive, MOB"-like, then you I have little to discuss. However, you need to know that if you are part of a group that does this, and I happen to be on the same tour in the same museum, I will speak up against your harrassment of the docent.

There is no evidence to back up your hyperbole and fantasy

So you use the same tactics you accuse me of. Good going - bub. :)

166 posted on 09/20/2005 8:39:35 AM PDT by DGray (http://nicanfhilidh.blogspot.com)
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