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[Coyotl]

Who can top the reviews already here:


http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Genesis-Gospel-Ken-Ham/dp/B000EGZ4XS

Wow...brainwashing has never been so fun!
By Ramsey
When we were looking for a way to lie out right to our children and keep them in the dark about the actual workings of life on Earth, this was the perfect video for us. With fun characters and great music, we were able to indoctrinate our children into a way of thinking that should have gone away in the bronze age. If you want your kids to believe in fairy tales and hocus pocus with no factual basis whatsoever, this is the best place to start!

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This is related to the recent viral 4th grade science test:

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Can anyone prove this test to be for real?

4th grade Science test - please tell me this is not real
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022727735

[SheilaT]

1. I just went to Snopes and they don't seem to have that test vetted.

So I submitted it to them.

To us, the reality-based community, that test seems beyond ludicrous, but it may well be real. Aside from the content of the test and the correct answers, I'm bothered by the remarkably simple reading comprehension level. That should be a second grade test, it seems to me, although teachers might want to chime in here.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. It sounds like a Christian School

I think some of them really do teach that stuff.

[SheilaT]

3. Oh yeah. But I'm still more than a little

bothered by the second grade reading comprehension, even in Creationism studies.

[LiberalAndProud]

9. They have it as "probably true" right now.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/sciencetest.asp

A few days after the Reddit posting, a reader wrote to us and reported that the quiz displayed above belonged to his 10-year-old daughter, saying:

-snip-

She will not be attending the school next year ...

[olddots]

4. was this going on 50-60 years ago

Did we know if this ignorance was running rampant ?

I think there is big funny money being made by these scammers and they rationalize it as free market capitalism .

[Coyotl]

5. The book authors are likely making good money on the rubes.

There certainly is a disinformation industry at work.

[Johonny]

6. The answer is yes and yes there has always been money to be made telling people what

they want to hear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Genesis_Flood

Book from 1961

[SheilaT]

10. 50-60 years ago very, very few people

home-schooled. And Creationism had not overtaken the thought processes of devout Christians.

While public schools tended to shy away from overt teaching of evolution after the Snopes Trial in 1925, actual biology and chemistry was taught. The kind of thing that this supposed test shows really was not out there.

Read "The Rocks Don't Lie" by David R Montgomery, a history of geology and creationism. Very interesting.

[Rex]

7. Something that looks totally absurd? A dinosaur holding the Bible.

My how far we have fallen if this is considered 'education'.

[Coyotl]

8. Civilizations don't fall

They are sold off for a few pieces of silver at a time.