Comments on: Museum row evolves http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/08/30/museum-row-evolves/ Watching. Pointing. Laughing. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PaulJ http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/08/30/museum-row-evolves/comment-page-1/#comment-176538 PaulJ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:41:38 +0000 http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=1258#comment-176538 <i>As for bad syntax (I am normally careless in front of a computer but make no demands for others to do better) a cursary glance at the signs in the Libraries, the Guidhall, the Central Museum or even the self same building will reveal that NBC are not that fussed about syntax (or spelling or grammar) and that this was just a cover up.</i> I have to admit I'm equally appalled by bad syntax in public notices as I am by bad science. As for bad syntax (I am normally careless in front of a computer but make no demands for others to do better) a cursary glance at the signs in the Libraries, the Guidhall, the Central Museum or even the self same building will reveal that NBC are not that fussed about syntax (or spelling or grammar) and that this was just a cover up.

I have to admit I’m equally appalled by bad syntax in public notices as I am by bad science.

]]> By: Mark Beaumont http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/08/30/museum-row-evolves/comment-page-1/#comment-176537 Mark Beaumont Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:04:18 +0000 http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=1258#comment-176537 I was there yesterday (Abington Park), it was actually, Im ashamed to say, the first that I heard about this. I find the powers of fanatical Christians to dictate what we see very disturbing and am pleased to see public action. I thank everyone there for protecting our basic right to knowledge. Alan Moores sppech was very powerful Although I did not agree with everything that he said about America, what is very interesting is that the flourishing of the fundamentalism of the 1930s was possible because of the free attitude to religion at the time over there. Mind you most northerm states our not administered with the jellyfish attitude of Northampton Borough Council or many other poor British local governments and would not tolerate such creationist/fundamentalist totalitarian, so that they have to come and do it over here As for bad syntax (I am normally careless in front of a computer but make no demands for others to do better) a cursary glance at the signs in the Libraries, the Guidhall, the Central Museum or even the self same building will reveal that NBC are not that fussed about syntax (or spelling or grammar) and that this was just a cover up. I am worried that people in such numbers rate a literal interpretation of some ancient text above contemporary discovery but am furthermore alarmed that the people we pay our council tax to let them get away with it and even encourage it I was there yesterday (Abington Park), it was actually, Im ashamed to say, the first that I heard about this. I find the powers of fanatical Christians to dictate what we see very disturbing and am pleased to see public action. I thank everyone there for protecting our basic right to knowledge.

Alan Moores sppech was very powerful Although I did not agree with everything that he said about America, what is very interesting is that the flourishing of the fundamentalism of the 1930s was possible because of the free attitude to religion at the time over there. Mind you most northerm states our not administered with the jellyfish attitude of Northampton Borough Council or many other poor British local governments and would not tolerate such creationist/fundamentalist totalitarian, so that they have to come and do it over here

As for bad syntax (I am normally careless in front of a computer but make no demands for others to do better) a cursary glance at the signs in the Libraries, the Guidhall, the Central Museum or even the self same building will reveal that NBC are not that fussed about syntax (or spelling or grammar) and that this was just a cover up.

I am worried that people in such numbers rate a literal interpretation of some ancient text above contemporary discovery but am furthermore alarmed that the people we pay our council tax to let them get away with it and even encourage it

]]> By: ziggy http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/08/30/museum-row-evolves/comment-page-1/#comment-176521 ziggy Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:25:06 +0000 http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=1258#comment-176521 Exactly - thank you, PaulJ. The story keeps changing! And wasn't there something in an earlier version about the masking of the oiginal text being as a result of a complaint from a lone religionist on religious grounds???? Or does my memory deceive me? Exactly – thank you, PaulJ. The story keeps changing! And wasn’t there something in an earlier version about the masking of the oiginal text being as a result of a complaint from a lone religionist on religious grounds???? Or does my memory deceive me?

]]> By: PaulJ http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/08/30/museum-row-evolves/comment-page-1/#comment-176497 PaulJ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:39:03 +0000 http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=1258#comment-176497 <i>We’re not told the exact wording.</i> The original wording is in the <a href="http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Museum-in-censorship-row-over.4434982.jp?af746e90" rel="nofollow">original article</a>: <i>'He used the same layers of fossils that had supported the Genesis view of evolution to show the slow changes that are taking place over the millennia of earth history, each small change enabling a species to the rigours of it's (sic) environment – the struggle for survival through natural selection leading to the survival of the fittest.'</i> We’re not told the exact wording.

The original wording is in the original article:

‘He used the same layers of fossils that had supported the Genesis view of evolution to show the slow changes that are taking place over the millennia of earth history, each small change enabling a species to the rigours of it’s (sic) environment – the struggle for survival through natural selection leading to the survival of the fittest.’

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