The Washington Post story about Liberty University’s David DeWitt and Marcus Ross biology class trip to the Smithsonian made it into Canada’s Edmonton Journal over the weekend.
I haven’t checked the Seed science blog ghetto yet, but suspect the chorus of angry and indignant pajama bloggers will be howling their protests and complaints.
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Peaceful coexistence at evolution HQ
by Steve Hendrix ( Washington Post)
Edmonton Journal (Canada) p. D8
March 15, 2009
Every winter, David DeWitt takes his biology class to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, but for a purpose far different from that of other professors.
DeWitt brings his Advanced Creation Studies class up from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., hoping to strengthen his students’ belief in a biblical view of natural history, even in the lion’s den of evolution.
His yearly visit is part of a wider movement by creationists to confront Darwinism in some of its most redoubtable secular strongholds. As scientists celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, his doubters are taking themselves on Genesis-based tours of natural history museums, aquariums, geologic sites and even dinosaur parks.
