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Saddle Up That Stegosaurus--A Visit to the Creation Museum

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2007

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this episode Columbia College Chicago's Stephen Asma discusses the new antievolution Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., as well as his books on natural history museums and monsters, both mythological and teratological. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.skeptic.com, www.stephenasma.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:42.1

Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American.

0:46.8

For the seven days starting July 25th, I'm Steve Murseky. This week on the podcast, they think that things like abortion and pornography are directly linked to the teaching of evolution in the schools.

0:57.0

That's Stephen Asma from Columbia College, Chicago, talking about the folks behind the new

1:02.3

anti-evolution creationism museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. He's done scholarly research on science

1:08.9

museums, which makes him a great reviewer of the new museum,

1:12.5

and we'll talk to him this week, plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

1:17.6

Steve Asma is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Columbia College, Chicago,

1:22.2

where he also carries the title of Distinguished Scholar.

1:25.2

He toured the Creation Museum and wrote an article about it in the current issue of

1:29.2

Skeptic, the magazine of the Skeptic Society, which was founded, by the way, by

1:33.7

scientific American columnist Michael Shermer, who also edits Skeptic magazine.

1:38.1

Anyway, the Creation Museum explains how dinosaurs and humans lived side by side, as well as numerous other fantasies, to find

1:46.7

out more I called Asma at his office in Chicago.

1:50.3

Professor Asma, good to talk to you today.

1:52.5

Hi, Steve.

1:53.0

How are you doing?

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