Well, nothing. I asked the volunteer coordinator (I’m a volunteer, I don’t get paid) what he thought of my post. He said it was all good as long as I don’t piss off a creationist so much that they never come back again and the museum loses money.

# Lucia on 14 May 2008 at 1:24 pm

Ok. I don’t know what it takes for them to not come back but whatever it is, it might be worth it.

And from what I’ve seen all it takes is *anything* reality-based to piss off a creationist.

Anyways, props to Lucia for making a blog post that’s better written than anything I could type or, really, conceive of.

Well, nothing. I asked the volunteer coordinator (I’m a volunteer, I don’t get paid) what he thought of my post. He said it was all good as long as I don’t piss off a creationist so much that they never come back again and the museum loses money.

Don’t worry – she’s not an employee, she’s a volunteer.

Sigh.

Well, at least SplendidElles represents a rational side I’ve not seen in public for far too long. Very refreshing to see critical thinking alive & well in the next generation!

:-p

What is the museum going to do when they find out that one of their employees is writing publicly and negatively about its patrons?

Obviously she’s right but haven’t we seen a recent rash of terminations due to somebody talking about actual science when one of their superiors is an intolerant zealot?

Anyway, I think she’s brave for making a point, but hopefully she doesn’t mind losing her job while doing it.

I have not yet watched the video (I’m at work just now), but I intend to tonight.

They’re all skeptic!

Learn to read before calling me a troll. Thanks.”

Mariah, maybe you wouldn’t get called a troll if you had cut Lucia a little bit of slack. You read one of several possible interpretations into her statement about Dawkins and simply assumed that it was the intended meaning, even after her protestations to the contrary.

I daresay you, like so many of us, have occasionally written something that was unintentionally ambiguous. To err is human, after all. Perhaps you could have asked for clarification before having a go at Lucia, hmm?

Learn to read before calling me a troll. Thanks.

First of all, an actual atheist wouldn’t refer to oneself as a “New Atheist.” That’s a pejorative term used by the religionists. It would be like an African American saying “I’m a “n*****” and I do agree with Martin Luther King on civil rights.”

That, and given how Mariah has treated Lucia, I can only be skeptical of “her” claims to be any atheist of any sort.

Leave the kid alone, troll.

It’s only religious if a person is only parroting what a person says without any thought at all.

Otherwise it’s simply being human, happy, and proud!

And while I doubt it’s the case, what’s wrong with a little crush anyway?

Again, I have no idea what you’re talking about. I giggled in a similar way when I saw that I got linked here, but that’s just because I giggle when I’m surprised. Replace giggle with chuckle if you really think that sentence was fangirly enough to justify saying that I foamed.

Giggle is just another word that means laugh that happens to be used to describe fangirlish laughs, and I can’t see myself trying to make myself seem like a fangirl.

Sorry, it’s just I see so many people who complain about that “mean old Richard Dawkins” for expressing his religious opinions. As if the guy doesn’t have a right to, Lord knows we hear plenty of the same from fundies. I may not necessarily even agree with his opinions sometimes, but I still respect the guy’s opinion and as a scientist.

>>>”Maybe you should have double-checked your article where you foamed over an atheist the same way a theist or a closed-minded fanatical Christian foam over their pastors.”

Hey, I foam over Christina Aguilera, I’d hardly call it religious or fanatical!

Even if it is hero-worship, so what? Hardly an abnormal thing in young people. Or even in some older ones. Sheesh.

If this is what freethought means for you, you have a long way to go.