Venerating Lucy
For those who don't follow our podcast Let's Talk Creation , I wanted to let you know that the first episode of Paul and Todd's Czech Anthropology Adventure is now available. In that episode, my co-host Paul Garner and I have quite a conversation about the "veneration" of these fossils. We draw some very explicit parallels between the long lines and many foreign visitors coming to this exhibit and medieval people going on religious pilgrimages. Being in that room with the fossils, where the room was dark and the bones were in coffin-like exhibits, there was definitely a hush over the crowd, almost a reverence. (Then there were the noisy creationists yammering on about anatomical details.) We had an interesting conversation about science vs religion and how modern museums have become our cathedrals. Check out the episode for more. In a fun little coincidence, Paige Madison has a piece in Smithsonian magazine on the exhibit, and she confirms that reverential a...