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Creationism in schools...

Skwim

Veteran Member
I came across this little piece in the Answers in Genesis web site. Note that it's a bit old, but in as much as AiG's is still publishing it, it's an indication that it's still relevant, I'm passing it along with comment.

"A Christian K–12 school in South Carolina, with dedicated and highly qualified Christian teachers, [Hmm, I'm always suspicious of people who unnecessarily tout their qualifications or those of others.] has come under vicious attack by atheists. Why? Because one of its instructors, a fourth-grade teacher, tested her children about biblical creation, science, and dinosaurs (using AiG resources), [I gotta say, if you're going to play the Deceit Game then expect to be called on it. Simple as that. :D]

The atheist buzz about the dinosaur-and-Bible quiz, however, is not really all that surprising. Over the past few years, we have seen atheists becoming more aggressive and intolerant towards Christians. They are attempting to impose their belief system (yes, their religion) on the culture. [Ah yes, all those nasty atheists. Never mind that many Christians feel the same way about misrepresenting and distorting science.]

It seems that since the last presidential election, atheists have grown more confident about having something of a license to go after Christians. [The reasoning being: were it not for electing a liberal-minded President, atheists would still be cowering in their corner. MESSAGE: Keep us safe from atheists; never elect a liberal President.] These secularists want to impose their anti-God religion on the culture. They are simply not content using legislatures and courts to protect the dogmatic teaching of their atheistic religion of evolution and millions of years in public schools. [Evolution gets promoted to the status of a religion. Why? because the choir is better able to relate to the character of the enemy this way. Of course it's still a secular enterprise, but what the hey, take your pick.] There is something else on their agenda: they are increasingly going after Christians and Christian institutions that teach God’s Word beginning in Genesis. [Because they have nothing better to do in life than pick on fundies.]

In South Carolina recently, a fourth-grade teacher at Blue Ridge Christian Academy (a nondenominational K–12 Christian school) showed students a DVD of a children’s program, in which AiG song-writer and dinosaur sculptor Buddy Davis and I are featured. In this DVD, we teach children the history of the universe from the Bible, with a special emphasis on teaching dinosaurs from a biblical perspective (as we do inside our Creation Museum). The teacher handed out a question sheet to the children to test what they learned from the DVD. (See the quiz below.)

quiz.jpg


Note: this isn't a "Bible Quiz," but a "Science Quiz."
source
The second page is rather hard to make out so here's what it says:

11. Whom should we always trust?____"GOD!!!!"___________

12. What is the "History Book of the Universe?__"BIBLE!!!"______________

13. What did God tell Noah to build?_____"an ark"______________

14. True or False? [the selected answer to:] Noah's ark looked like this:

[The cartoonish picture of enormous animals over-filling a tiny ark.]


15. The average size of a dinosaur was a
a. giraffe
b. rhino
c. elephant
d. sheep [the selected answer]
16. what caused them to be fossils?
a. lightening
b. a Global Flood [the selected answer]
c. a tornado
d. evolution
17. Fossils are ______"Millions of dead things buryed in rock ???? water all over the world"____________________

18. The next time someone says the earth is billions (millions) of years old, what can you say?______"Were you there?"__________________

.
 
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Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
On what day did God create dinosaurs? Sixth

OMG...I died after that line...I'm still laughing


btw...parents are free to ruin their children's education...by sending them to those "schools"
Those atheists shouldn't interfere (As if only atheists were shocked and mad at them)
 
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Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
I'm embarrassed that Ham is Australian however I'm ecstatic he moved to America. I'm thinking he had to, he wouldn't have found a big enough audience for his BS here.
Are you sure that you won't take him back? We could send you Ray Comfort as a bogus . . . Wait, I meant bonus.
 

leibowde84

Veteran Member
I came across this little piece in the Answers in Genesis web site. Note that it's a bit old, but in as much as AiG's is still publishing it, an indication that it's still relevant, I'm passing it along with comment.

"A Christian K–12 school in South Carolina, with dedicated and highly qualified Christian teachers, [Hmm, I'm always suspicious of people who unnecessarily tout their qualifications or those of others.] has come under vicious attack by atheists. Why? Because one of its instructors, a fourth-grade teacher, tested her children about biblical creation, science, and dinosaurs (using AiG resources), [I gotta say, if you're going to play the Deceit Game then expect to be called on it. Simple as that. :D]

The atheist buzz about the dinosaur-and-Bible quiz, however, is not really all that surprising. Over the past few years, we have seen atheists becoming more aggressive and intolerant towards Christians. They are attempting to impose their belief system (yes, their religion) on the culture. [Ah yes, all those nasty atheists. Never mind that many Christians feel the same way about misrepresenting and distorting science.]

It seems that since the last presidential election, atheists have grown more confident about having something of a license to go after Christians. [The reasoning being: were it not for electing a liberal-minded President, atheists would still be cowering in their corner. MESSAGE: Keep us safe from atheists; never elect a liberal President.] These secularists want to impose their anti-God religion on the culture. They are simply not content using legislatures and courts to protect the dogmatic teaching of their atheistic religion of evolution and millions of years in public schools. [Evolution gets promoted to the status of a religion. Why? because the choir is better able to relate to the character of the enemy this way. Of course it's still a secular enterprise, but what the hey, take your pick.] There is something else on their agenda: they are increasingly going after Christians and Christian institutions that teach God’s Word beginning in Genesis. [Because they have nothing better to do in life than pick on fundies.]

In South Carolina recently, a fourth-grade teacher at Blue Ridge Christian Academy (a nondenominational K–12 Christian school) showed students a DVD of a children’s program, in which AiG song-writer and dinosaur sculptor Buddy Davis and I are featured. In this DVD, we teach children the history of the universe from the Bible, with a special emphasis on teaching dinosaurs from a biblical perspective (as we do inside our Creation Museum). The teacher handed out a question sheet to the children to test what they learned from the DVD. (See the quiz below.)

quiz.jpg


Note: this isn't a "Bible Quiz," but a "Science Quiz."
source
The second page is rather hard to make out so here's what it says:

11. Whom should we always trust?____"GOD!!!!"___________

12. What is the "History Book of the Universe?__"BIBLE!!!"______________

13. What did God tell Noah to build?_____"an ark"______________

14. True or False? [the selected answer to:] Noah's ark looked like this:

[The cartoonish picture of enormous animals over-filling a tiny ark.]


15. The average size of a dinosaur was a
a. giraffe
b. rhino
c. elephant
d. sheep [the selected answer]
16. what caused them to be fossils?
a. lightening
b. a Global Flood [the selected answer]
c. a tornado
d. evolution
17. Fossils are ______"Millions of dead things buryed in rock ???? water all over the world"____________________

18. The next time someone says the earth is billions (millions) of years old, what can you say?______"Were you there?"__________________

.
This is child abuse. Intentionally teaching children that young things that are known falsities is just about as incompetent as a teach can get.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
I came across this little piece in the Answers in Genesis web site. Note that it's a bit old, but in as much as AiG's is still publishing it, an indication that it's still relevant, I'm passing it along with comment.

"A Christian K–12 school in South Carolina, with dedicated and highly qualified Christian teachers, [Hmm, I'm always suspicious of people who unnecessarily tout their qualifications or those of others.] has come under vicious attack by atheists. Why? Because one of its instructors, a fourth-grade teacher, tested her children about biblical creation, science, and dinosaurs (using AiG resources), [I gotta say, if you're going to play the Deceit Game then expect to be called on it. Simple as that. :D]

The atheist buzz about the dinosaur-and-Bible quiz, however, is not really all that surprising. Over the past few years, we have seen atheists becoming more aggressive and intolerant towards Christians. They are attempting to impose their belief system (yes, their religion) on the culture. [Ah yes, all those nasty atheists. Never mind that many Christians feel the same way about misrepresenting and distorting science.]

It seems that since the last presidential election, atheists have grown more confident about having something of a license to go after Christians. [The reasoning being: were it not for electing a liberal-minded President, atheists would still be cowering in their corner. MESSAGE: Keep us safe from atheists; never elect a liberal President.] These secularists want to impose their anti-God religion on the culture. They are simply not content using legislatures and courts to protect the dogmatic teaching of their atheistic religion of evolution and millions of years in public schools. [Evolution gets promoted to the status of a religion. Why? because the choir is better able to relate to the character of the enemy this way. Of course it's still a secular enterprise, but what the hey, take your pick.] There is something else on their agenda: they are increasingly going after Christians and Christian institutions that teach God’s Word beginning in Genesis. [Because they have nothing better to do in life than pick on fundies.]

In South Carolina recently, a fourth-grade teacher at Blue Ridge Christian Academy (a nondenominational K–12 Christian school) showed students a DVD of a children’s program, in which AiG song-writer and dinosaur sculptor Buddy Davis and I are featured. In this DVD, we teach children the history of the universe from the Bible, with a special emphasis on teaching dinosaurs from a biblical perspective (as we do inside our Creation Museum). The teacher handed out a question sheet to the children to test what they learned from the DVD. (See the quiz below.)

quiz.jpg


Note: this isn't a "Bible Quiz," but a "Science Quiz."
source
The second page is rather hard to make out so here's what it says:

11. Whom should we always trust?____"GOD!!!!"___________

12. What is the "History Book of the Universe?__"BIBLE!!!"______________

13. What did God tell Noah to build?_____"an ark"______________

14. True or False? [the selected answer to:] Noah's ark looked like this:

[The cartoonish picture of enormous animals over-filling a tiny ark.]


15. The average size of a dinosaur was a
a. giraffe
b. rhino
c. elephant
d. sheep [the selected answer]
16. what caused them to be fossils?
a. lightening
b. a Global Flood [the selected answer]
c. a tornado
d. evolution
17. Fossils are ______"Millions of dead things buryed in rock ???? water all over the world"____________________

18. The next time someone says the earth is billions (millions) of years old, what can you say?______"Were you there?"__________________

.

If they want to teach religion in a Christian school, then that's one thing, but I can never understand what the point is in teaching this form of "science." It really doesn't even make any sense, considering that many conservative Christians are also militarists who love all the latest military weapons and gadgets. They certainly wouldn't want bad science when it comes to that sort of stuff. But they accept this.
 
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