I feel SO smart after reading this...

[kpete]

11 Eye-Opening Highlights From a Creationist Science Textbook













the other points:
http://www.11points.com/Books/11_Eye-Opening_Highlights_From_a_Creationist_Science_Textbook

[DCKit]

1. Nobody has ever felt electricity?

Is the writer Amish?

Wow, I'm feeling smarter too.

[ananda]

3. I bet even at least one Amish person..

.. has been struck by lightening
or felt static electricity in the
winter.

[toddwv]

16. They also use batteries.

For cars and lamps as well as other things.

[DCKit]

17. Growing up, I never knew any "New Amish". It was kerosene lamps and buggies all the way.

but thanks for playing.

[Jessy169]

2. Home schooling for dummies

It is pretty sickening to know that so many Republican "home schooled" kids are getting indoctrinated with this crap. By the time they're 18 and "ready" for the world, they're so dumb and misinformed that they stand little chance of doing well in the job market. That leads to failure, frustration, anger and hatred. In other words, another Republican voter easily misled and lied to.

[grantcart]

4. After reading about the Creationists understanding of the moon, I feel a compelling

urge to go out and moon someone.

[annabanana]

5. Jesus!.. Not a SCRAP of Science in there at all!. . . n/t

[tabasco]

6. Molding a new generation of stupid, gullible peons.

Thanks, religion!

[flobee1]

7. Electricity is a mystery?

"we cannot even say where electricity comes from"
WTF?????



wow.

[FredStembottom]

8. All scientists: "evolutionists".

Geologists, physicists, astronomers......

Nope. They're Evolutionists.

[pink-o]

9. AARGH!

[Dash87]

10. The Grand Canyon one is great. LMAO

Yup - just one flood eroded all of that rock, despite there being colored layers of rock in the grand canyon, and despite the fact that the Colorado River runs through it at the bottom.

[hobbit709]

11. Should be labeled "Fairy Tales For Delusional Dummies"

[doohnibor]

12. When was the Great Flood?

If you go by the Ussher chronology, the flood of Noah occurred in 2348 BC, give or take a year. By that year, both Sneferu and Cheops had been dead and laid to rest in their pyramids, not very far away, for over a century. Neither of their pyramids have any sort of flood damage.

Funny that Unas (last ruler of the Fifth dynasty, 2375-2345BC) never mentioned any water problems. No flood waters interfering with the construction of his pyramid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Unas), no arks full of animals floating by, no 40 days and 40 nights of rain. You think they might have commented on that in a dry place like Egypt.

But I can understand why people would believe stories from the oral traditions of a tribe of desert nomads, rather than contemporaneous written accounts of events -- they're stupid.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Funny that you should mention that

we actually think we have found evidence of the flood (in Mesopotamia), and that our Noah was real (as in a Mesopotamian Prince)

Oh wait, like the Song of Songs (An Egyptian Poem), the story of the flood was... wait for it... a Mesopotamian tale. The amazing part is... archeologists have found evidence of it... alas NOT in Egypt.



THose damn Archeologists, and historians...

Some of us find the ACTUAL stories far more fascinating than the tales, which do have a kernel of truth.

[Atman]

13. View these at the link. Author's commentary is excellent.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. You would think that any reasonably intelligent person would see through this,

but they don't. I had a man the other inform me that all the facts that anyone needs can be found in the bible. If they can't find it there, they just ignore it. Science and logic are totally irrelevant. It just blows my mind.

[siligut]

15. Not if they were brought up in a closed environment

This is what cults do, they teach dogma from the day a person is born. And the cult teaches that outside sources are evil, so attempting to correct the craziness is met with distrust or outright anger. I have seen this first-hand, and of intelligent people.

Think about the stories of Tarzan or Romulus and Remus, a newborn is tabula rasa, just waiting to be molded.

[cthulu2016]

21. Interestingly, that man's diet largely doesn't exist in the Bible,

nor do the species of animal around his home.

American fundamentalists are the funniest because our continent does not exist in the Bible. There is not the slightest indication in the Bible that an omniscient God was aware of the existence of tomatoes and corn, for instance.

Unicorns? Yes. Bison? Not so much.

There were people in 16th century Europe who debated whether New World plant species could be eaten because they are not mentioned in the Bible.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. My dear Kpete, you are one smart cookie

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Oh my God, they're so fucking stupid

Shockingly dumb.

[renate]

26. that's so true and so blunt it made me LOL

I was speechless earlier today after seeing that a friend of mine liked a photo on Facebook of two people praying in a fast-food restaurant; the group that originally posted the photo was something like Mitt Romney for America and it was about how they wanted Romney to win so they'd still have the freedom to pray. OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL DO YOU EVEN THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT???? Has anybody ever, ever, ever, EVER tried to take away a person's right to PRAY? Do they honestly not understand the difference between the freedom to pray and the requirement to do so--how one is 100% American and one is 100% not?

I was speechless but what I wish I'd been able to articulate is what you said--Oh my God, they're so fucking stupid.

[JaneyVee]

22. It says 1990. So I'm guessing now we know what happened to the Tea Party.

[seanpencil]

23. "by chance"?

how can people be dumb on purpose?

[Care Acutely]

24. On the front cover of the book - a bolt of lightning . . .

Inside the book, "no one has ever observed electricity"

[renate]

27. LOL and welcome to DU!

[LadyHawkAZ]

25. I went to one of those schools. Can't believe they are STILL allowed

to teach this crap as science. Ugh.

[Summer Hathaway]

28. It still amazes me

that people who accept God as all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-powerful still perceive him as
being restricted by their own lack of imagination.

[Skittles]

29. but we are expected to RESPECT their "faith"

by the way, that elephant/moon thing is BS, yes?

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/elephant-moon-quiz-question.shtml

[Systematic Chaos]

30. Some of this was posted here before some time ago, and it still makes me want to vomit.

I guess one of the perils of free speech is that assholes like these people will milk it for everything it's worth to destroy young people's minds.

[Quantess]

31. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

This is child abuse / neglect, in a way.

[Kalidurga]

32. That actually makes me feel ill...

This isn't really teaching it's deliberate miseducation. It should be illegal. And it is so sad for me to think about a child taught this way and then somehow they get a job and they are talking to people that at least got a public school education and somehow people find out they believe the earth is only 6000 years old and they can't believe we don't stone adulterers anymore. They are going to be horribly teased and it isn't really their fault.

[longship]

33. Electricity is a mystery!!!!!!!

Ben Franklin never existed. He's fiction!
Faraday is fiction, invented by atheists.
James Clerk Maxwell never existed, a Scott conspiracy.

Einstein never unified anything, let alone E&M.

Paul Dirac was a fraud.

Don't get me started about Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomanaga. All frauds.

Weinberg and Salam cheated, and Salam was a Muslim!!!!

And don't get me started about Wilczek and Gross (appropriately named).

All frauds. All of them.

This electricity is a mystery. It's magic from god. Trust only me. The rest of those people are lying. Trust me. No! Really!