This sort of indoctrination is pretty sick, kids as young as 4 being brainwashed. You can tell by the way they parrot their lines they will be good fundiebots. The mother's words were quite telling, in essence, it's just easier to tell kids god created them in a 7 day stint, it makes sense right?
Well, it also made sense to us that the earth was flat and the sun orbited the earth. Common sense is great in some circumstances but when the evidence suggests something else, our sense was simply wrong. We accept it and move on.
I'm sure the young guy in the latter part of the video may well fail in his quest to achieve a Nobel prize in creationsim, but he could well help with this future scenario...
[apologies to those in the southern hemisphere, the creator couldn't get the punchline to work when you were included. I'm sure south america will be a socialist utopia and Australia/NZ the first solar-powered societies]
If the likes of Ken Ham and Kent Hovind get their way, this could be the future. Thankfully, there are people working hard to keep these guys out of American schools, but we can't stop them brainwashing kids if their parents allow it. These guys actually think that the flintstones was a real-life documentary.
The great biologist, Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the idea of non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), this suggests that science and faith are for different things - they shouldn't encroach on each others realms. That's fine by me, probably best to adjust your faith to reality though, otherwise you'll look a bit silly. But if you are lying to 4 year olds so blatently, I'll still think you are a disgusting turd. Hopefully, these kids will eventually consign these lies to the dustbin along with fairies and the Easter bunny. And, yeah, I know we play games with kids heads with Santa etc, but we do expect adults to go beyond these little stories.
American scientific illiteracy is really none of my business, but if you are in the US, it is yours. A good schooling in science and technology is essential in modern societies - if we can't be bothered educating our children properly, I'm pretty sure other countries will.
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A bit overblown, people like this are rare.
I dunno Griz, they are apparently presenting to thousands of kids every year. With a country of around 40% accepting Genesis as literal and a few more percent denying a good science, they have quite an audience.
Wow. It's one thing to know that this is going on. It's another thing entirely to actually see it happening. I actually lost my appetite watching this video.
Hi ya, just stumbled on this and disagree with your take on the issue. The Theory of Evolution as it is called is a theory and not "a good science" Science is "systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation." Now this can not be done with Evolution as we were not around to observe this theory, so if you are honest a fair amount of faith is needed in the acceptance that this is how it all happened.
Hi anon,
glad you stopped by. The theory of evolution is a theory, but this doesn't mean a guess, as in everyday language. Science can be used to assess historical events. We observe the data from the past and make inferences about what we observe. It also makes predictions - the finding of the Tiktaalik fossil is good evidence of this. Using knowledge of biogeography and common ancestry, the researchers knew where to look for this fossil. The prediction was verified.
Of course, the deeper into the past we go, the more uncertain our inferences become. But evolutionary theory does not depend on fossils alone.
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