Re: News: Seattle shows little love for Lucy fossil exhibit.

Ray Martinez wrote:
On Jan 29, 4:42 pm, NA Sides <nongo1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:12:14 -0800 (PST), Ray Martinez



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On Jan 29, 3:57 pm, Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Seattle shows little love for Lucy fossil exhibit

* AP foreign, Wednesday January 28 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8330351

SEATTLE (AP) Who loves Lucy? Far fewer people than a Seattle
science center hoped when officials paid millions to show the
fossil remains of one of the earliest known human ancestors.

Halfway through the five-month exhibit, the Pacific Science Center
faces a half-million-dollar loss resulting in layoffs of 8 percent
of the staff, furloughs and a wage freeze, President Bryce Seidl
said Friday.

Lucy is a 3.2 million-year-old fossilized partial skeleton of a
species with chimplike features that walked upright. The discovery
in 1974 in Ethiopia forced a major revision of theories about the
evolution of Homo sapiens.

The fossil exhibit was successful at the first stop on the tour â??
Houston in 2007, but the expenses have other museums reconsidering
the planned six-year, 10-city tour.

The Seattle center's staff redesigned the Lucy exhibit, adding a
large section on Ethiopian history and artifacts, an audio tour and
interactive displays in which visitors can put themselves in the
shoes of a fossil hunter.

"It's a powerful story of evolution and culture and history ... but
we're not getting the attendance we need for an exhibit of this
scale," Seidl said.

The center had hoped to draw 250,000 visitors during the exhibit
that ends March 8, but only 60,000 have come. Seidl blamed the
recession, which has cut into arts and museum revenue nationwide,
as well as December snowstorms that curtailed travel within and
around Seattle. The Lucy show cost the center about $2.25
million, Seidl estimated. That includes a $500,000 fee to
Ethiopia, which plans to use the money for cultural and scientific
programs.

The Field Museum in Chicago withdrew from the tour because of the
cost. Debate over whether the irreplaceable fossil should be
shipped around the globe led the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
to drop the idea after early consideration.

"Lucy may not be anywhere other than Ethiopia after Seattle," Seidl
said.

But Donald Johanson, the American anthropologist who discovered
Lucy, said fascination with the skeleton remained strong.

"As I travel around the country lecturing, people seem to have a
deep interest in their origins, in their roots," Johanson said.

--
Bob.

LOL!

The dismal turn-out means the people reject Atheism credulity.

And it should be noted that the scraps are treated like precious
treasure because so little exists. Extraordinary claims require
extraordinary evidence----remember?

The extraordinary claim was Darwin's. Evidence that supports it has
been accumulating for one hundred sixty years. But lots of people
don't want to look at that evidence because it creeps them out to be
related to creatures like the Australopithecines.

NAS



LOL!

Ray

Darwinism is Atheism ideology also known as scientism or science
fiction or anti-science or Materialism.

Since Darwinism is ideology there isn't any evidence. Since the
evidence we do have does not support the claims the same confirms
Darwinism to be Atheism ideology. Starting in 1996 scholars ceased to
be gentle in breaking the bad news. This is why over half of all
adults in the U.S. are anti-evolutionists, Creationists or IDists.


Nonsense as usual. Creationism is the result of poisoning innocent childrens
minds with holy Babble.

WRT the stupid argument, a proper response can be found here:

http://www.antievolution.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=14;t=1272;st=11010#entry134297
The conclusion is cryatal clear, even Ray can deny it:

"Resorting to Argumentum Stupidium??? The number of people believeing
something is true has zero effect on whether or not it is true!!!!

Isn't this on the AIG "Arguments Not To Use Cuz You'll Look Even Stoopider"
page?"





Ray


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