They were forced to reject computers and cell phones? Are you
exaggerating or does this guy drive a horse and buggy and have a beard
with no mustache?
On Jul 26, 6:10 am, Steve in Virginia <
chandler2...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Well I disagree. I have seen the damage of foisting mythology on
> children as a substitute for science and reason - personally. I have
> watched my two nephews, both previously inquisitive, open-minded,
> outgoing young men. Both had a love of science and desire to explore
> the scientific fields as a possible academic and career choices. They
> both had a love of nature; a nearly insatiable curiosity of biology,
> paleontology, zoology, evolution and astronomy. Summer nights were
> spent peering through the telescope in my backyard; the guys collected
> marine fossils in the hills of West Virginia. They toured the back
> rooms of the Smithsonian and got a hands-on taste of vertebrate
> paleontology and human evolutionary biology.
>
> Sadly, their mother re-married and their step-father is a hard-line,
> closed-minded, fundamentalist Christian. The boys spent too many
> developmental years with him as he sent them to Jesus Camp
> indoctrination for weeks at a time; pounded them with the bullshit
> from the Bible; forced them to reject computers, cell phones,
> television and movies. And made them read from that insidious
> collections of fairy-tales hours a day. The only visage of their past
> personalities - when the would come back to Virginia they come over
> and watch Harry Potter, Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings,...which are
> strictly forbidden as godless, satanic and anti-Christian. Now, it's
> always "Praises Jesus" this and "Hallelujah Jesus " that. Evolution
> is "only a theory", the Creation Week is an incontrovertible fact. the
> Noachian Flood is real, and absolutely no one can be a moral,
> decent,humane person unless they fully embrace the fictional Jesus as
> their personal savior.
>
> That's the damage it does. It takes 21st century youth and rockets
> them back into a worldview of the 9th century.
>
> Steve
>
> "Science flies you to the Moon, and religion flies you into
> buildings."
>
> On Jul 26, 1:29 am, 4praise <
4prai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hilarious that you would quote an evolutionary biologist to try to win
> > > an argument for Creationism.
>
> > I think it's more "ironic" then "hilarious" and btw, I am not trying
> > to win an argument for creationism.
>
> > I think that the parents cited in the article are acting within their
> > rights and I disagree with the idea that learning the Genesis account
> > of creation puts kids at some kind of disadvantage academically -
> > that's all.
>
> > > Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple
> > > and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false,
>
> > Isn't one of the charges against I.D. that it is not falsifiable? How
> > can something not be falsifiable and also be false?
>
> > > > > > > > > > > - Bob T
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > On Jul 24, 8:27 am, dali_70 <
w_e_coyot...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks to J. Spaceman over on the T.O. group for posting this.
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > > LIVINGSTON — The Livingston Parish School Board will begin exploring
> > > > > > > > > > > > > the possibility of incorporating the teaching of “creationism” in the
> > > > > > > > > > > > > public school system’s science classes.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > During the board’s meeting Thursday, several board members expressed
> > > > > > > > > > > > > an interest in the teaching of creationism, an alternative to the
> > > > > > > > > > > > > study of the theory of evolution, in Livingston Parish public school
> > > > > > > > > > > > > classrooms.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > The discussion came up during a report on the pupil progression plan
> > > > > > > > > > > > > for the 2010-11 school year, delivered by Jan Benton, director of
> > > > > > > > > > > > > curriculum.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Benton said that under
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