Adler's article will undoubtedly be of academic value and use to those interested in the museum's evolution.
The theories put forth are all fairly standard creationist museum stuff: Evolution isn't real, God created everything etc. etc.
In the episode, Ned Flanders is shocked after seeing a new display at the museum about evolution.
The Peabody Museum, like many natural history museums, identifies evolution by natural selection as a central theme in its educational mission and overall interpretive strategy.
In addition, the first five previously published volumes - a total of 20 issues, most of them dedicated to particular topics (e.g. 'Co-evolution,' 'Biogeography,'Evolutionon and Medicine,' 'Museums and Evolution,' 'Human Evolution'), organized and written by experts in their fields - will be freely available, too, for the very first time on SpringerLink (http://link.springer.com).springer.com
The theories put forth are all fairly standard creationist-museum stuff: evolution isn't real; God created everything, etc., etc.
In contrast to most natural history museum exhibitions, "Explore Evolution" illustrates contemporary research on evolution across diverse organisms, ranging from the microscopic to the largest of all mammals, using interactive, hands-on exhibits that portray the activities and laboratory or field settings of each of the featured scientists (see Fig. 1 for an example).
The museum traces the evolution of Wedgwood ware.
John G. West, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, whose researchers endorse intelligent design, said he was not aware of organized efforts to challenge museum exhibitions on evolution.
Though Ms. Palin got the worst of it — in Ms. Fey's hands she referred to the Museum of Natural History as "that goofy evolution museum" and Bono as "the king of Ireland" — Ms. Couric was depicted as blinking like a windshield wiper on a stormy night.
