Here is how Science 4 for Christian schools is advertised on Amazon:
Explain God's ordered world to students through the study of the moon, light, area and volume, simple machines, digestion, animal defenses, trees, erosion, and simple classification of insects.
Somehow the fact that they do not recognize that electricity CAN be observed, and definitely be felt, does not fill me with confidence that they can explain a damn thing to children.
Fortunately for the children of the 21st Century there is a thing called Google.
Their premise starts off flawed.
ReplyDeleteI have observed electricity. I have felt it, I have seen it, I have heard it.
When you start your thinking with a mistake, the conclusion is going to be far from the truth. They are deliberately dumbing down their kids in an attempt at controlling their thinking. This is child abuse.
I think that this book may very well have been written in Anchorage, as lightning is rare enough that the author could actually have avoided ever seeing it. However, that doesn't explain how they lived through our excessively dry winters and never managed to get shocked by the abundant static.
ReplyDeleteMaybe their mother rubbed them down with a "Cling-Free" sheet every morning before sending them off to Anchorage Baptist Temple?
This is pitiful.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap, and I mean that literally! How can parents fill their kids' heads with nonsense and expect to have functioning adults in 18 years who can get into a decent college and then jobs? Instead, these kids will grow up to be Glenn Beck and Hannity...dropouts who prey on others for thei incomes by sputing lies about the world. Electricity? Gee, Founder Ben Franklin 'felt' and 'saw' it 200 plus years ago.
ReplyDeleteWanna be trult scared? Read the reviews of Limbaugh's "Rush Revere and the Pilgrims" on Amazon. These people think he's the only one who can really teach history to the little ones..and he's so 'entertaining.' Someone should smack them upside the head and tell them that Paul Revere and the Pilgrims did not coexist.
Any real science training makes things complicated........threatens "simple" faith......can't have that.....
ReplyDeleteYou're assuming families of children who use those books allow them access to Google.
ReplyDeleteGive 'em all 240 volts in the ass. They'll change their minds right quick.
ReplyDeleteDamn...this tripe sounds like it was written in the middle ages.
ReplyDeleteOf course, that what the fundamentalists are trying to do...reduce the kiddies to thinking like simple peasant folk.
The church had a lot of power back then...they had total control of morality and could force the medieval rulers to have people burned at the stake for heresy.
Unfortunately today's fundamentalists are longing for that level of influence over our current government.
Now I understand how the humans become mute and the Apes rise up to run the Planet.
ReplyDeleteI take solace in knowing that these kids will never compete with my own educated grandchildren in the job market. "Christian" education is creating an underclass that will not be able to adjust to the modern world.
ReplyDeleteIt is exactly such an illiterate, dangerous underclass that fills the shoes of suicide bombers. Do we have Christian suicide vests and bombers in our future? I hate to say it but I can see it happening... killing for Jesus to save souls and keep America stupid and scared.
DeleteYou are wrong 7:55 a.m. Look what is happening to higher ed in the US. Pearson education taking over much of the online crap. These entrenched ideas don't get challenged in online classrooms. They will avoid liberal arts taught by real human professors. They restrict all but a select few to do research. even other professors will merely by spouting indoctrinated lessons, instead of doing new research.
ReplyDeleteBe watchful.
Stick your finger in a light socket. You will feel electricity, and it might shock some sense into you.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I play a steam guitar. It's much easier to understand.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather be sittin' in a deck chair high up over Kansas City
Deletein a genuine, old-fashion, authentic steam-powered aereoplane!
I think it's in my head, deranging my synapses.
ReplyDeleteYeah, get with the program! Thunder is the angels bowling, those big streaks of light aren't electricity, they're flashbulbs, yeah that's the ticket!
ReplyDeleteDamn, I miss Joe Isuzu!!!!
anyone who's taken basic electrical engineering knows that the basis of understanding of alternating current is 'i', the imaginary number, the square root of negative one... then again, to science-deniers, that fact obviously proves divine purpose
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin read this book.
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