We didn't think the issue would be as white-hot as it is right now. It kind of raised the ante for us. My sense was, let's make this show good, because people really want to see it. They need it.
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Our hope is to make it emphatically clear just how important Darwin's work is to modern science and to what we and other scientists do in everyday life.
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We respect people's beliefs, and conversion is not necessarily our goal. We hope that every visitor will have a clearer idea of what Darwin did and, for that matter, what science means.
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Dinosaurs have been incredibly popular for decades
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Darwin himself was a really fascinating person, an adventurer as well as a scientist
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The doubts about Darwin's theory are very much like the doubts heard 150 years ago. The show is not about the controversy but about Darwin's life and adventures.
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Without his insights, we would fail to appreciate the dangerous potentials of rapid evolution in the avian flu virus
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[When curators at the American Museum of Natural History began planning an exhibition on Darwin three years ago, they didn't anticipate a roiling national debate about evolution and intelligent design.] We didn't think the issue would be as white-hot as it is right now,.. It kind of raised the ante for us. My sense was, let's make this show good, because people really want to see it. They need it.
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