Now the above is just a sample from the original 30 minute video which I will embed below, but it gives you some idea of that vast which emanates from this Megan Fox woman.
As you may have guessed she is a Fundamentalist Christian, who home schools her children to protect them from anything which might threaten their faith in what Mommy and Daddy believe.
Here is how Raw Story reported on this:
In the description of the 30 minute video she uploaded to YouTube to document the visit, Fox wrote, “In November 2014, Megan Fox toured the Field Museum’s ‘Evolving Earth’ exhibit to audit it for bias. She found many examples of inconsistencies and the Field Museum’s insistence that people support opinion as fact without proof. The Field Museum pushes certain theories as if they are absolute proven law when that is not how the scientific method works.”
In the video’s opening moments, Fox is reading a display regarding the evolution of eukaryotes — which she has to ask her camera operator how to pronounce — simple, microscopic animals that first evolved as single-cell life forms, but which became multicellular, beginning the diversification that would lead to complex life forms.
“‘At first, many eukaryotes were single-celled, and many still are today,’” Fox reads from the display before scoffing. “What? If many still are today, then that would support the theory that they have never changed, that they have always been as they are today, not that they started someplace else and then are here, but they were always this and still are today.”
Regarding what paleontologists have said about the first animals to make the transition from life in the water to life on land, Fox says this is impossible. God made the creatures of the water to live in the water and the creatures of the land to live in the land, which is why fish have fins and people have feet.
“It’s not like their fins fell off and they grew feet,” she says. “That’s what they want you to believe, that their fins fell off and then they grew some feet and started walking on the land. This is the dumbest theory I’ve ever heard in my whole life. It’s not good, it’s really not good. It’s bad. It’s very bad. Do you know how complex feet are?”
Holy crap! This woman almost makes Sarah Palin seem like a Rhodes Scholar.
What is even more troubling is that this lunatic has a YouTube channel where she reviews, and recommends, books for children.
Now as promised embedded below is the entire 30 plus minute video.
My advice is to watch in small segments however as the stupidity is actually overwhelming.
But America is currently celebrating ignorance and the ignorant, so she should really be a folk hero, right? Or run for Congress.
ReplyDeleteIs she implying that there were people with video cameras filming everything that happened in the bible? If not, from her reasoning it is ALL lies. Hmmmm...
ReplyDeleteHas the woman never seen a tadpole?
ReplyDeleteAnd did she miss the birth of a butterfly? Didn't pay attention in elementary science class, I guess. Not just ignorant, but downright stupid, as well.
DeleteThe woman is pretty much dumb like the palin...but there's hope. She can run to sally sandusky's word of the day at palin's little channel.
DeleteI had a fundie mom come into my house and freak out when her 8 year old asked her about the tadpole my son had in a fish tank, "Mommy, why does this fish have legs?". She snatched her child away in horror and exclaimed that their family doesn't "believe in evolution." Yeah, good luck with that.
DeleteMaple, she probably DID pay attention in her elementary science class. I suspect she herself is a product of homeschooling, or else she went to a Christian school that used A Beka textbooks. I did, and her "reasoning" is boilerplate from them.
DeleteI saw this earlier on Raw Story and I remember thinking, "Wow, there is a woman out there who is dumber than Sarah Palin". Who knew?
ReplyDeleteOh she and Sarah are equally dumb. Remember, Mrs. Palin believes that humans walked with dinosaurs because someone showed her a picture of humanoid footprints interspersed amongst dinosaur footprints. It was one occurrence of "humanoid like" footprints caused by collapsed prints of dinosaurs but this has been pushed so hard by new earth creationists, even though it has been debunked by real science. Why aren't these people embarrassed by their ignorance?
DeleteBecause they think they're brilliant.
Delete12:31 p.m., because they don't KNOW it has been debunked. They never hear that, and they don't have any reason to investigate what they're taught unless they begin to question the people they have always trusted to tell them the truth. To people educated as creationists, you are as stupid and deluded for thinking evolution is true as you consider them for believing the Bible. I honestly don't think most people who haven't grown up in fundie environments understand that.
DeleteOur A Beka science book actually tried to use the idea that birds are descended from dinosaurs to debunk evolution--basically, "Evolution is so stupid that these are the kinds of insane theories their scientists come up with!" You are told that you're learning facts that "evolutionists" don't want anyone to know, because they disprove evolution; you are privy to information that the typical public school child never hears. So you walk around thinking everyone else is ignorant, blind, and stupid. Maybe someday you actually have a conversation with one of those people, during which you listen long enough to realize they're much better educated than you were led to believe they were. Maybe you even realize they're much better educated than you are, and their rebuttals to your rebuttals of evolution actually make sense.
But if you attend Christian school or your mom homeschools, then you go to Christian college, then you go to work in a Christian environment or stay home with the kids you had with the spouse you met in church... your chances of ever meeting people who have been taught differently than you and who might expose you to facts and new perspectives are minimal.
Even when you do encounter other ideas, the process of questioning and revisiting everything you have always held to be true is difficult and often devastating. Growing up evangelical almost killed me, literally, and that's what caused me to start asking questions. But years after I stopped believing in evangelical Christianity, I still believed in creationism and voted Republican. Sometimes coming out of evangelicalism is a lifelong process, and people anywhere in that process need compassion and kindness and understanding, not scorn and derision.
I'm sorry for the hard work to learn reality that you've had to go through 1:27pm. It does sound like you have made you way to a better place. I agree, compassion, kindness, and understanding would work better but often are refused :(
DeleteI was at a meeting with international STEM colleagues a few weeks ago and an American engineer mentioned that some 40% of Americans believe the earth was formed as it is now 6000 years ago. You should have seen the looks of disbelief. How, they wanted to know, did America ever get to where it is today if Americans are so stupid? A better question would be, what's America's future with such a stupid populace?
ReplyDeleteThe decay of public education.
Deletethe dark ages
DeleteAt least the other 60% will have good jobs ��
Delete"The Idiocracy" isn't just a movie, unfortunately.
DeleteThis is evolution at work.
DeleteYes, there are a lot of incredibly stupid, willfully ignorant people out there, but the future belongs to the smartest, most progressive, flexible thinkers.
The others will not ultimately survive.
I know it is disheartening and sometimes it feels like the stem thinkers are outnumbering us, but it is just nature's way of weeding them out.
If they can not accept or process the research of learned scientists, what hope have they of changing with the times or accepting other truths for their own survival and good?
I see it now with my 11 year-olds and their classmates- the kids who are smart, curious and flexible will own the future. The dolts... not so much.
and how dumb IS Sarah Palin?
ReplyDelete'You Better Believe We're Running Another Story On Sarah Palin's Notorious Turkey Massacre'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/26/sarah-palin-turkeys_n_6226176.html
Uncensored version:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ybEbrQeOA
i love it i love it...lol..saraj you will always be what you wanted to be "famous" in a very infamous way...lol
DeleteIt is at about the 18:00 mark this scholar says how dragons did exist. A rare recording was unearthed which proves this is fact.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy a bit of a laugh in the face of this stupidity... this really is timeless, brilliant humor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-haaB0UhY
And I suppose there were unicorns too, except they missed the Ark and drowned.
DeleteJust like in the song.
Who knew Shel Silverstein was a prophet?
"people support opinion as fact without proof"... more like "people support the bible as fact without proof"
ReplyDeleteThe good news is that she's really dull. We're supposed to watch her read books? She's terrible at it. Zippy, zippy, this is good, this is funny, zippy, zippy, skip some pages, zippy. And her baby's crying while she's zippying. It's very tedious.
ReplyDeleteShoot! who can watch that crap. I don't want to be mean of stereotypical, but all these mass-murderes & kids that kill their parents have ALLL been home-schooled.
DeleteI notice (of course ) that this ignorant person has disabled all comments on her posted videos.
ReplyDeleteOf course, because she can't be bothered to tolerate any dissent or opposing views.
The evangelicals might as well be living in their own Matrix,
and we can only hope that some day they will wake up from their coma of mythology, superstition, and ignorance.
If ONLY they were living in their own Matrix.
DeleteUnfortunately, they have far too much influence over the real world that the rest of us live in.
That's you sarah and barstool type of woman.
ReplyDeletePretty soon they'll be saying the junker kid brisket had in WZ was from the immaculate conception. In fact junker is such a saint to keep barstool pure while lying on his bed, that he will probaly be saying mass on Sunday Mornings next.
BTW, does he know he's forever linked to this "abstinance" woman no matter what, expecially since they never did "present" the abstinance kid they had in Arizona, unless he appears walking as in presented as "miracle."
Have you seen where the video trail goes to the kids area of the museum and Ms Fox reviews the children's books, specifically one using fruit and vegetables to reference the alphabet? She makes a point of sarcastically mentioning Michelle Obama's nutrition project, and points to the "Ugly Fruit" under "U", stating, "I bet Michelle Obama grows these too". How did evolution split us up so much? Why did some homo sapiens evolve into such vicious christian haters? You'd think that such classic cognitive dissonance would have already caused those genes to die out a long time ago, like when the single cells told themselves that they were superior to all other progressively replicating cells. Sheesh, where would you begin in a conversation with this young lady?
ReplyDeleteIt's gonna take some time, that's what evolution and natural selection have at their heart, time, very long timeframes. Once these ninnies figure out that overbreeding broods of underachieving children isn't financially beneficial more of them will become dumber, and dumber, due to lack of food and resources and the ability to find jobs to provide for themselves due to their utter ignorance. Hungry people tend to make weak offspring, and those offspring make even weaker offspring and if they keep electing Republicans that have no interest in feeding their big stupid christian families with welfare and other social programs then they will eventually become too stupid to breed, and the ones that are left will be too stupid to live without assistance and they'll fizzle out, all while clutching their precious bibles. It might take a few thousand years but it will happen. I just wish I could live long enough to see it :-)
DeleteYes, her anger and bias is in full display. How did we come to this? I’m convinced it is the divisive aspects of religion.
DeleteMy son works part-time as a children's librarian.
ReplyDeleteHe dreads the times that home-schooling parents come in with their children. They are abrupt, rude, and opinionated, take out 50 books at a time -- somehow believing quantity is better than quality -- and their children act like zombies, told what to do and when to do it. No curiosity, no imagination, no independence.
And, of course, unsullied by contact with children their own age, by the culture of their time, by ideas that would make them have to defend their own cult-induced thoughts.
I taught at a community college in Colorado Springs and saw plenty of homeschool alums and current students (enrolled through the early college program). The girls tended to be sweet, conscientious, and diligent. Some were more open-minded than I expected, although one was a very vocal supporter of Sarah Palin and purity balls. Almost across the board, the boys were disrespectful, spoiled, unable to focus in a classroom setting or follow directions, and convinced I would give them as many opportunities as they needed to redo assignments so they could earn As. It was clear that they had indulgent mommies who were very invested in their "success," which apparently was defined as "not letting my child fail even when he needs to."
DeleteI now teach at a university in a southern state that ranks very low nationally for public education. Many of my students went to high schools in which they, like the homeschoolers, were allowed to retake tests, resubmit papers, etc., until they earned As. Many have admitted that this makes their adjustment to college more difficult. The difference I see between them and the CO homeschool students (and yes, I'm generalizing a bit) is that these kids are saying, "Wow, this is how the real world works...college has been a tough wakeup call." The homeschool kids just resented me for not recognizing their awesome specialness.
I taught at a community college in New England. Homeschoolers weren't too numerous but they were easy to spot by their inability to think outside the box. A lot of my courses were about problem solving and critical thinking and they just couldn't handle it. I will say they generally had good handwriting and followed directions well. :)
DeleteI too worked in a library and endured the homeschooling mothers. The y had horrible manners, were uneducated and angry about it and curiously believed they could do a better job educating their children. NOT!
DeleteWell, please do NOT rake every home schooler over the same brush! I homeschooled our daughter, but we are NOT religious freaks. She was inteoduced to many world religions, dabbled a bit in this and that, went to college by age 15, and now has an MBA and is very successful office manager in a multinational tech company. During her early teen years, she was working in a science center in California. At first, she took all the classes offered there - from astronomy to physics to chemistry to biology. Then, at the ripe old age of 12, she wrote their biology manual on how to handle the animals they had, and she actually taught it to college students! After that, she went on to study all about space, went on a couple of scholarships to 'Space Academy' courses, became a guide at one of those centers, met with many, many astronauts as well as cosmonauts.
DeleteAge 15, she decided to try to go to college, and ran successfully for student body president. Graduated with double AA/AS, with honors, and was valedictorian.
(Not trying to brag here, just giving a different view of homeschooling!)
Oh, and my home schooled daughter speaks several languages fluently and can keep up a conversation about pretty much any topic!
DeleteAnd I really am a dog on the internet!
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Noticed an article on Raw Story by TBOGG titled, "Guess who the Tea Party wants to primary John McCain". You will never guess who.
Pat Padrnos
She is the worst kind of idiot, smug in her ignorance, coy and smirking.
ReplyDeleteWell, well, well. I am so stunned. This woman really needs to take an historical geology class and a cellular biology class. It astounds me anybody can be so ignorant and self-righteous. Epic fail.
ReplyDeleteHardly surprising she has the comments disabled on all of her videos.
ReplyDeleteI guess now we know where the future Republicans are coming from. They have to breed them to keep the flock plentiful and make up for those that actually have brains, learn and leave. After all, not all minds are created to accept brain washing.
Say one of her ignorant little offspring walked out of a room and she walked in, spotting a pile of poop in the middle of the floor that she knew was not there an hour earlier. There's no dog in the house and the rest of the kids are visiting Grandma.
ReplyDeleteWould she take that pile on the floor as evidence that her child pooped - even though she didn't have 'video' of the incident - or would she proclaim that there had been a Poop Miracle in her family room?
Sometimes I truly fear for the future of our country.
Guess who the Tea Party wants to primary John McCain? Go on, guess
ReplyDelete...First off, Jesus doesn’t love me this much, although he does love me enough to float rumors that not-so-good-at-throwing-football-guy Tim Tebow is maybe courtin’ and sparkin’ one of them there Duggar gals. Jingerjamjam or Jawboner, one of them.
Second, it is awfully early to recruit Palin for 2016 now since she’ll probably quit the campaign before Valentines Day next February.
On the other hand, Palin has expressed an interest in holding public office again because her critics make her “want to work so hard for justice in this country.”
… and then quit because the money sucks and you have to show up for work and “do stuff,” and then you’re too tired when you get home at night to catch up on your “stories” you TiVo’d during the day and, ohfegawdssakes, now Todd wants to play “dog sled” in bed at night and bleh, who needs it. Better to stay home, teaching youngest daughter Glacier how to make a proper moosetini. (pro-tip: use mini-Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups instead of olives).
Of course, the irony here is that McCain would be primaried by the woman he plucked from obscurity and made a national figure and now, oh no!, the killer is inside his own house.
Without John McCain, Palin would have eventually quit her job as one of America’s more obscure governors and devoted herself to raising her children, by which I mean holding their hair back while they vomit after a night of drinking and partying and brawling and getting pregnant. Again. Without John McCain’s Hail Mary pass, America would have been deprived of their K-Mart Kardashians.
Now we might get to see a reverse-Frankenstein with the monster chasing its creator across the ice floes.
If only God loved me — all of us really — this much…
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/guess-who-the-tea-party-wants-to-primary-john-mccain-go-on-guess/
Okay, then, back to the Dark Ages we shall go.
ReplyDeleteMegan is a satanic name and Foxes are demon dogs.
Also, too, Megan Fox looks like a witch!
Burn her at the stake!
And you are wondering how the grand jury came to the conclusion about Wilson and Ferguson? People like her sit on juries and grand juries. This is the reason why we should be insisting on good education for all-- because the dumb people bring society down to their level.
ReplyDeleteI am a science teacher, and there are times when I have kids who will not accept the idea of evolution. I have explained that there is solid scientific evidence for the evolution, and if it will make them feel better, they can tell themselves that it was directed by the Hand of God. But, when it comes to the test, they are responsible for knowing what is taught in the class and what is written in all of the accepted science books.
ReplyDeleteDawkin's "The God Delusion" explains so much, but unfortunately most of it is above these people's ability to understand, that's why they rely on god to explain things. I couldn't imagine going through life so ignorant I feel such pity for these people, missing the point of all this gloriousness on Earth and in our Universe. My Atheist father says "there but for the grace of god go I" and this further solidifies my position because the "grace of god" has turned off these people's brains and killed their curiosity. So sad to see, but we can't fix these people and they will always be a thorn in our side.
ReplyDeleteShe's really let herself go after the "Transformers" movies. Well, anything for a paycheck.
ReplyDeleteAnyone else here old enough to remember the original Saturday Night Live and the Gilda Radner character, Emily Litella?
ReplyDeleteIf you are and do, then you're already in on the joke.
(Megan Litella?)
If not then
...nevermind.
See? This is exactly what I was talking about in the other thread. These people don't bother to actually KNOW what science says, they just make up their own idiot version of what they think sounds good, and then they smugly debunk their own ignorance and act like it's the scientists that are idiots.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I are Atheists but he likes to play christian "devils advocate" during some of my anti religious tirades and he always likes to do the "christian side of the story" and whenever I argue he counters with "but were you there"? That is their argument, "but were you there"? when yes, science takes us "there" and shows us a natural progression of evolution of species, geology, geomorphology, evolution of species, you didn't have to be "there" to read the tales that the earth sciences and biological record leave behind for us to study. As the famed scientist Haldane said (and I'm slightly paraphrasing because I'm lazy) he'd "believe in creationism if he found a rabbit skeleton in Precambrian rock layers", meaning that we haven't found anything so anachronistic as to not weigh in the favor of the scientific evidence that we've compiled pertaining to the age and formation of the Earth and the evolutionary history of all things present here upon.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to hell! Step up and get your money's worth, everyone! This woman loses it over words like "is" "was" "were" "are", then they make her laugh (not a genuine laugh, but a mocking "ha ha" laugh),
ReplyDeleteThis woman was the prototype for my evangelical aunt. If something's a theory, it's WRONG because the Bible says so. The fins falling off and becoming feet? I have no idea where she got that from.
Have you noticed that every time a space ship takes off, we have bad weather? That's God telling man not to meddle in space. Well, where would we have Tang orange flavored drink powder, if it weren't for the space program? To which she would laugh hysterically, stop laughing and say something like "And the increase in birth defects after years of drinking Tang?" Don't dare ask her for sources, she believes it, she heard it somewhere, or her preacher said it.
There's no reasoning with these one cell brain folks.