Watch a home-schooler mom go through a science museum and destroy evolution

[TransitJohn]

This is hysterical, but also proufoundly disturbing. This is what we are up against.

In the video embedded below, fundamentalist Christian home-school mom and conservative cultural critic Megan Fox — no relation to “Transformers” actress Megan Fox — visits the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and purports to “audit” the museum for its “liberal bias.”

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.”

Dangerous Minds wrote, “(S)he’s an idiot, she homeschools her kids and she’s a fucking dingbat with her own YouTube channel so she can inflict her low IQ buffoonery on everyone else.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/watch-a-home-schooler-mom-go-through-a-science-museum-and-destroy-evolution/

[JDDavis]

1. I don't think I can stand to watch it.

I noticed that she disabled comments on her Youtube channel, so she cannot be educated. She is refusing to open her mind.

She really must be very afraid and insecure.

[onager]

2. *SPOILER ALERT*

The very first line in her video is - "I don't know how to say this word, so I'm just going to pretend I know how to say it." (The word is "eukaryotes.&quot

That seems to set the tone for all that follows - the whole video is the Argument From Ignorance writ large. But TBH, I couldn't make it thru the whole thing myself. This dingbat presuming to lecture the Field Museum on evolution would usually be hilarious. If there weren't millions more just like her who vote.

But remember, kids - the biggest danger in America today is not the tiny minority of Fundamentalist Assholes who think like this woman. The real danger is Militant Atheists who want to lock all the poor persecuted Xians up in camps. No doubt behind gates reading "Wissen Macht Frei."

[JDDavis]

3. From the OP's original link

"Viewers are currently savaging the video on Reddit."


Here's the Reddit link.

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2n9iuk/religious_lady_goes_to_a_museum_and_gets_angry/


And, yes, I watched the first 30 seconds of what is a 30 minute video, I got as far as her saying she didn't know how to pronounce "Eukaryotes"... I knew it would be a waste of time, but I did find out from reddit that if you turn the volume off, you get a free tour of the museum's exhibit.

I did check her channel, and she goes on about 100 paranoid issues, how some children's books are subverting our youth, etc.

This is her own description of her Youtube channel:

Watch "Story Time with Megan Fox" videos here, about subversive elements in children's books and teen literature, as well as investigative reports from around Chicagoland related to schools, libraries, museums and other places of importance to families. Megan Fox is a homeschooling, Tea Partying, conservative mother of two (with another on the way!) out and about in the suburbs who is also a popular columnist for PJ Media.

[Cartoonist]

4. I can't watch it either

I remember an argument I had with a bible thumper once. He said there is absolutely no proof of evolution. I told him to visit a field museum. I guess it wouldn't have enlightened him either.

[deucemagnet]

5. I made it 2 minutes into the video before I had to turn it off.

The combination of smug arrogance and abject ignorance was too much to take.

[JDDavis]

7. But remember, we will be told that her arrogance and

her ignorance just cannot possibly have anything to do with her religious beliefs. Am I right?

I also feel sorry for her home-schooled children. They are victims of educational malpractice.

[RebelOne]

11. I made through 6-1/2 minutes before turning it off.

I realized she was just spouting nonsense. Who is she to dispute proven scientific facts?

[Warren Stupidity]

6. 35 seconds in and she utters the "why are there still monkeys" argument.

I didn't get to 36.

[Rob H.]

9. Someone should ask her

"if God made Man from dust, why is there still dust"?

CHECKMATE, THEISTS!

[bvf]

8. I thought I could make it through this

but it was sort of like rubbernecking at a traffic accident. At some point you realize it's just wrong to keep staring in horror.

She cites "muddled thinking" and in nearly the same breath goes on to talk about "single-celled Buicks" becoming galaxies in her interpretation of what she's just read.

This would be sad enough it it were not coming from a home-schooling proponent. The fact that it is makes it alarming to think of the number of kids being exposed to such shit. I won't call it borderline abuse. It's flat-out abuse.

[JDDavis]

10. "Schooling Megan Fox"

Here's a 10 minute video response to Megan's 30 minute venture into her own absurd brain.



Schooling Megan Fox

[JDDavis]

12. Frustrated ...? There’s a Way You Can Undo Her Damage

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/11/28/frustrated-with-the-mother-who-audited-a-museums-evolution-exhibit-theres-a-way-you-can-undo-her-damage/

Quoting from the link:

The other day, I posted about a Creationist mother who laughably “audited” an evolution exhibit at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History and posted the video on YouTube.


I also mentioned that this mother, Megan Fox, has been going after my local library for the past year because they don’t censor their Internet and Fox saw that as sanctioning “taxpayer funded access to child porn.” Her actions, which have already cost the library more than $125,000, have effectively taken money away from educational purposes (which I’m sure doesn’t matter to her, since she gave up on learning a long time ago).
If her video made you cringe, then I wrote that you could help out by making a donation to the library.

http://www.gofundme.com/hu5nmw

[JDDavis]

18. Friendly Atheist ways in with his on video about Fox

In his own words:

By now, you've probably seen the video of a woman named Megan Fox -- not that one -- going through an evolution exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum..................................


It's like Fox wants to bring everyone else down to her level of education.

So here's where you come in. I've set up a fundraiser to raise money for the library. I doubt we'll be able to make up for all the damage Fox has caused, but it's something.

If you're willing to chip anything in, there's a link below. Please give anything you can. I promise you everything raised will be given to the library and I'll provide proof of that on my website at the end of the month.

If you watched Fox's museum video and you were frustrated, this is how you can fight back. I hope you'll join me.

[AlbertCat]

20. Oh c'mon JD.....

"way in"???

On a post about saving a library?



But thanks for posting. I think I'll check it out. (pun unintended)

[JDDavis]

21. Yeah, I must have been half asleep

"weighs-in"

[progressoid]

13. Holy shit.

Over 900K views on youtube. I hope most of those are people just wanting to watch the crazy lady and not actual supporters.

Ugh. I need a drink.

[progressoid]

14. I see she's being sued

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/science-hating-homeschool-mom-sued-for-defamation-in-ongoing-library-prn-flap/

[onager]

16. ROFL! From the comments...

Amazingly stupid, even for Xian propaganda pitched to kids.

Some of whom will be saying: "WTF? We observe electricity all the time in Science class. Right there on the oscilloscope." And every toddler/budding scientist who ever stuck a fork into an electrical outlet certainly knows it can be "felt."

AFAIK - what nobody has figured out yet is the exact relationship between electricity and magnetism. Incredibly, that hasn't stopped us from building electric motors etc. based on that relationship. e.g., that hair dryer the girl is holding in the pic.

So just another case of seizing on a fairly abstract concept, and extrapolating it to - "A mystery! Just like GAWD! See, science doesn't know everything!" (And science never said it did, unlike religion.)

[mr blur]

15. Damn that "hundred-year-old science"! and -

Newton's lousy three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old ideas about motion!
Why, even Darwin would admit that Megan Fox is smarter than he was!1!

[AlbertCat]

17. Muddled thinking.....

.... like not knowing what the word "some" means...as in "Some are...." as opposed to "All are...." or "None are...."

[BlueJazz]

19. This woman hasn't even the faintest idea on the subject of what she does not know.

I've always, totally been against the death penalty. Now I'm not so sure. (My little fantasy)