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"Demonstrate" versus "show," "illustrate," "present"
:Is his main argument against the Creation Museum based upon evolution or physics? I am guessing he is more concerned about the conclusions of the Creation Museum in biology than in physics. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 00:42, 29 May 2007 (EDT)
:Is his main argument against the Creation Museum based upon evolution or physics? I am guessing he is more concerned about the conclusions of the Creation Museum in biology than in physics. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 00:42, 29 May 2007 (EDT)
=="Demonstrate" versus "show," "illustrate," "present"==
I changed "demonstrate" to "illustrate" in the sentence
:The exhibits are designed to illustrate that the planet is just a few thousand years old and that man and dinosaurs once coexisted
"Demonstrate" means "1. To show clearly and deliberately; manifest: demonstrated her skill as a gymnast; demonstrate affection by hugging. 2. To show to be true by reasoning or adducing evidence; prove: demonstrate a proposition. 3. To present by experiments, examples, or practical application; explain and illustrate: demonstrated the laws of physics with laboratory equipment."
Very few museum exhibits of any kind demonstrate anything. Certainly a diorama that shows humans and dinosaurs coexisting does not demonstrate that they coexisted. Nor does a case of replicas of skeletons arranged in succession [http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/ Hall of Human Evolution] at the American Museum of Natural History "demonstrate" that humans evolved, nor does an orrery "demonstrate" that the planets move around the sun.
Exhibits "show" or "illustrate" or "present..." or "exhibit." They don't "demonstrate." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 05:23, 29 May 2007 (EDT)