Aside from the interpretive exhibits, the new education center will greatly increase the museum's ability to offer quality programs by including studio spaces for school programs, workshops and classes. Mr. Hatcher's assertions of arrogance on the part of the museum hurt deeply when non-profit employees and volunteers at the Telfair and the city's other cultural organizations put in long hours, evenings and weekends to provide programs for the general public to enjoy. We do that work because we care about education and cultural enrichment in this city. We invite Mr. Hatcher to come to our Family Sunday events and see that there are indeed meaningful activities for parents and children in this city, and that the Telfair Museum of Art is and has always been committed to education in this community. Catholics and many Protestant denominations hold the same view.
Difficulties abound, though.
It appears that through those years, when the animals were torturing each other with ferocious horns and agonizing stings, omnipotence was quietly waiting for the emergence of man, with his still more exquisite powers and his far more widely defused cruelty. Why the Creator should have preferred to reach his goal by a process, instead of going straight to it, these modern theologians do not tell us. The embrace of both a religion like Christianity and evolution calls into question, among others, the idea that God is all good. Indeed, perhaps the thorniest problem for Christian philosophers has been explaining the presence of evil in the world. The philosophers no longer defend the old answers, they merely, but at great length, say that we can not or don't know.