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if the loch ness monster exists, evolution is false. seems airtight to me.
The debate between creationists and proponents of evolution isn't ending any time soon, but now some creationists have a secret weapon, "Nessie!" Certain fundamentalist schools in Louisiana plan to teach children that the Loch Ness monster is real in a bid to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution. From the article: "One ACE textbook – Biology 1099, Accelerated Christian Education Inc – reads: 'Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence. Have you heard of the "Loch Ness Monster" in Scotland? "Nessie" for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.' Another claim taught is that a Japanese whaling boat once caught a dinosaur. It's unclear if the movie Godzilla was the inspiration for this lesson."
if the loch ness monster exists, evolution is false. seems airtight to me.
Pretty impressive for Nessie to live 65 million years tbh.
Just let them also watch "An Inconvenient Truth" and we'll call it a wash.
Textbooks of some state-funded Christian schools praise the Ku Klux Klan.
The violent, racist organisation, which still exists in the US, advocates white supremacy, white nationalism and anti-immigration.
One excerpt from Bob Jones University Press American history textbook has been reported as saying: "the [Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross ... In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians."
God bless
this thread is without a crookskanks post.
You can only believe in this kind of stupid for so long when the truth is so obvious.Boston-based researcher and writer Bruce Wilson, who specialises in the American political religious right, compares the curriculum to Islamic fundamentalist teaching.
"They are being brought up to believe that they're at war with secular society. The only valid government would be a Christian fundamentalist government. Obviously some comparisons could be made to Islamic Fundamentalists in schools.
"One of these texts from Bob Jones University Press claims that dinosaurs were fire-breathing dragons. It has little to do with science as we currently understand. It's more like medieval scholasticism."
Wilson believes that such teaching is going on in at least 13 American states.
"There's a lot of public funding going to private schools, probably around 200,000 pupils are receiving this education," he And the majority of parents now home schooling their kids are Christian fundamentalists too. I don't believe they should be publicly funded, I don't believe the schools who use these texts should be publicly funded."
what's in the ACE curriculum?
Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence.
Have you heard of the `Loch Ness Monster' in Scotland? `Nessie,' for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.
Could a fish have developed into a dinosaur? As astonishing as it may seem, many evolutionists theorize that fish evolved into amphibians and amphibians into reptiles. This gradual change from fish to reptiles has no scientific basis. No transitional fossils have been or ever will be discovered because God created each type of fish, amphibian, and reptile as separate, unique animals. Any similarities that exist among them are due to the fact that one Master Craftsmen fashioned them all."
Extract from Biology 1099, Accelerated Christian Education Inc. (1995)
5 Even Worse Lies from Accelerated Christian Education),
- Science Proves sexuality is a Learned Behavior
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics Disproves Evolution
- No Transitional Fossils Exist
- Humans and Dinosaurs Co-Existed
- Evolution Has Been Disproved
- A Japanese Whaling Boat Found a Dinosaur
- Solar Fusion is a Myth
Science
The ACE curriculum includes no practical science and accordingly no investigation. This would be troublesome for any ACE student embarking on a science higher education course.
"The PACEs are based on the reading comprehension mode of learning... There is no room within this method of learning for the negotiation of topics, for whole class problem solving, for the generation of ideas, for the formulating and testing of hypotheses, discussion of results and social application."10
...Rather than weighing evidence objectively, the ACE system rejects any science that contradicts the Bible, stating:
"True science will never contradict the Bible because God created both the universe and Scripture...If a scientific theory contradicts the Bible, then the theory is wrong and must be discarded."
Science
The ACE curriculum includes no practical science and accordingly no investigation. This would be troublesome for any ACE student embarking on a science higher education course.
"The PACEs are based on the reading comprehension mode of learning... There is no room within this method of learning for the negotiation of topics, for whole class problem solving, for the generation of ideas, for the formulating and testing of hypotheses, discussion of results and social application."10
...Rather than weighing evidence objectively, the ACE system rejects any science that contradicts the Bible, stating:
"True science will never contradict the Bible because God created both the universe and Scripture...If a scientific theory contradicts the Bible, then the theory is wrong and must be discarded."
Bob Jones University Press textbooks are the following:
- Only ten percent of Africans can read or write, because Christian mission schools have been shut down by communists.
- "the [Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross... In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians."
- "God used the 'Trail of Tears' to bring many Indians to Christ."
- It "cannot be shown scientifically that that man-made pollutants will one day drastically reduce the depth of the atmosphere's ozone layer."
- "God has provided certain 'checks and balances' in creation to prevent many of the global upsets that have been predicted by environmentalists."
- the Great Depression was exaggerated by propagandists, including John Steinbeck, to advance a socialist agenda.
- "Unions have always been plagued by socialists and anarchists who use laborers to destroy the free-enterprise system that hardworking Americans have created."
- Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential win was due to an imaginary economic crisis created by the media.
- "The greatest struggle of all time, the Battle of Armageddon, will occur in the Middle East when Christ returns to set up his kingdom on earth."
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/155926
LOL, I'm sure you think that's a wash.
That's by far the funniest one.
No, it will be a wash when that is mandated in the school, and instead of Al Gore's film it's a non-scientific YouTube video produced by the Church of Global Warming Imminence.
It's crazy that you see an article like this and immediately go into Red Team Defense mode. Don't you think?
How is it possible for a human being to know 100 percent without a doubt know definitively how the Earth was created? If that human exists, can that human tell me the winning numbers of the Texas Lottery for this coming Wednesday please?
Ironically, the only people claiming to know with 100% certainty are the one's whose only evidence is a book that an invisible man in the sky sent his zombie son (who is also himself) to earth to save us.
Right, because knowing the past = knowing the future
You have completely missed the entire point of science and how it reckons itself.
At the same time, the same question can be put to religions whose cosmogonies are purported to explain everything according to received interpretations (by some of their believers, at least). Less obliquely: how can religious people be so confident in their interpretation of scripture as to rule out something like the heliocentric model? Clearly they objected to that "attack on doctrine" for centuries, but in the end, heliocentrism's ultimate irrefutability came at no expense to Christianity besides the wounded pride/vanity (aren't those sinful anyway?) of the Catholic theologians who were offended by a model they didn't create themselves.
I honestly don't understand how Fundamentalists can pledge themselves to a "literal" understanding of the bible yet reconcile the differing accounts by the apostles; or selectively choose which passages of the OT they will honor (ex: "gays are an abomination") while ignoring equally strong passages about other things (s fish, menstruating women). That whole movement is categorically undone by the unrelenting vanity of its leadership, who can accept no account but the one they themselves invent to suit their purposes. /statingtheobvious
Life According to the Christian Education Curriculum, in Cartoons!
Despite being mostly ignored by the mainstream media, Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) has been something of a force for over 40 years. It began in Texas in 1970, and currently claims to have 6,000 schools in 140 countries. Because these schools are private, and the workbooks they use are only published internally, most people have no idea what is taught. You won't find ACE books in public libraries, so they effectively are able to operate without scrutiny. This is a problem when ACE schools are the beneficiaries of various voucher programs in the U.S. and even the U.K.
ACE schools do not have teachers in the traditional sense. Instead, students sit in individual cubicles, completing workbooks (PACEs) separately and in silence. PACEs are full of outrageous untruths and embarrassing multiple-choice questions. It's important not to overlook one of ACE's main propaganda tools, the cartoon strips that pepper each PACE. Looking at them, it turns out much of the content is repugnant not only to non-believers, but to most mainstream Christians as well.
1. Classrooms Are Segregated
In the fictional world of the PACE cartoons, there are three schools: Highland, Harmony and Heartsville. Here's a lesson taking place at Highland:
And here's a similar event at Harmony:
That's right, it just happens that in ACE's universe, kids attend separate schools based on their skin color.
2. Girls Must Be Modest
Just think about what this cartoon is saying. The girl depicted is less than 10 years old. Christian fundamentalists believe women must be modestly dressed so they do not incite men to the sin of lust. This a troublesome enough idea on its own. It implies women are to blame for men's sexual impulses, opening the door to blaming rape victims. Here, though, ACE is insisting that a pre-pubescent girl must be modest. Her body too, apparently, can incite lust, and this can be her fault. In insisting on the "purity" of children, ACE actually sexualizes girls' bodies. This is not an isolated occurrence.
3. Feminism is Bad
Women in PACEs only ever do traditionally "feminine" activities. They knit, cook and clean.
But they don't paint walls, because that might break their dainty feminine wrists.
Equal rights for women, of course, would lead to starving children.
4. Non-Christians Are Evil
Of all the people in the PACE universe, only two are not Christians: Susie Selfwill and Ronny Vain. According to ACE, these two characters "provide the humanistic, worldly aspect of life. These two personalities 'show up' throughout the inserts as examples of the consequences of unrighteous living."
Ronny is a malevolent s bag. Other PACE characters make the occasional mistake (like choosing to read a book instead of pray), but Ronny's every action is either stupid or simply unprovoked, intentional evil. Ronny is a thief....
He mocks a small child for crying....
And he pressures other kids into smoking.
Later, Ronny crashes his motorcycle, paralyzing one of the other characters in the accident. Following this, Ronny mocks the other character for needing a wheelchair. We are explicitly told that Ronny's bad behavior is because he is not a Christian.
So what happens to Ronny? Does he get saved? Nope....
http://www.alternet.org/education/sh...age=1#bookmark
I'm atheist and even I know most of your conclusions are false, like always.
I call your bull . What are my conclusions and why are they false?
When you quote an article and you don't offer a comment, you're using it as your take. Therefore you're using the conclusions that article is using, which are just as dishonest as religion is. It's like the Moore/Coulter concept, basically, but that's where you live.
I call your bull . What are my conclusions and why are they false?
Ronny isn't bad because he's not Christian. He's bad because he's a prick. You don't have to be a Christian to not be a prick and douchbaggery isn't exclusive to any god belief or lack thereof.
The dress code issue isn't about blaming women for a man's desires. It's about a girl having self respect.
These are elementary concepts that seem to get lost on the militant theist or atheist or whatever bull agenda you're pushing this time.
I don't have a problem with parents teaching kids according to their beliefs. That seems to be a basic tenet of freedom in fact. I do have a problem when they try to make hocus pocus magic bull into the public school curriculum.
I think publicly funded schools should teach the basics of knowledge, not belief. There's some epistemological grey areas between the two but that's neither here nor there.
The women in the kitchen look like men kinda like Jesus.
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