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#1186097
Having grown up in an evangelical home and receiving an “education” in my church’s private school I don’t think the child is a lost cause (his mom on the other hand…) Then again as the mother of a six year old dinosaur enthusiast myself it’s good to know this one wont be competition for him later in the job market.
7/28/2010 6:31:00 AM
#1186098
oops d/p
7/28/2010 6:31:36 AM
#1186100
Doubting Thomas
I really hope that a lot of the other comments here about the kid questioning what he's been brainwashed to believe are true, but what if this kid will grow up to be the next Kent Hovind? The future Hovinds, Hams, and Comforts have to come from somewhere. And let's face it, as long as there is fundamentalist Christianity, there will always be evolution deniers.
7/28/2010 6:43:13 AM
#1186104
Anon-e-moose
""Ok. Scientists say that God isn't real. They say earth is a kajillion years old. They say that people and dinosaurs weren't alive at the same time and that a lot of dinosaurs could have died from a big flood, but that The Flood didn't happen. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!"
And you lot on Ruptured Retards accuse we Atheists of misunderstanding, and 'taking out of context' your Scripture?! Your son needs to learn more on prehistory, and paleontology, thus he'd realise that the so-called Biblical 'Flood' happened
millions of years after the Dinosaurs became extinct.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_year_was_the_Biblical_flood_of_Noah's_ark
'According to the Biblical chronology it was around 2300 BC, that is around 1700 years after Creation in around 4000 BC. Many of the patriarchs listed above were living at the same time.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Tertiary_extinction_event
(emphasis added)
'The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, which occurred approximately
65.5 million years ago'
Notice the difference? But then you would be able to educate your son in these facts,
if you hadn't been 'hoenskuled', as you clearly have been.
7/28/2010 7:07:25 AM
#1186105
Anon-e-moose
(Part the Deux):
"One that really cracked him up was where they theorize about reptiles evolving into humanoid creatures. Good grief! And they teach most of this stuff as FACT in schools!!!! I can't believe it. Neither can a six year old. So WHY is it so accepted?!!?"
Only David Icke has. Y'see, it goes like this: Primordial Soup -> Single-celled creatures -> Multi-celled creatures -> Fish -> Amphibians -> Reptiles -> Birds -> Mammals -> Apes -> Ape-like Common Ancestor -> Darwinius massilae -> Ardipithecus -> Hominids -> Homo Erectus -> Neanderthal Man -> Homo Sapiens (Modern Man). But then, you'd know this, if you'd done basic anthropology in Biology at school, and not Creationism (destroyed by Kitzmiller vs. Dover) when you were 'hoemskuled'.
"I teach him what makes SENSE. NOT what science textbooks say. I also teach my kids to question what they are taught - especially what they learn in school. It's really not fun at all having a bunch of junior scientists in the house when 99% of science seems to be atheistic."
Kitzmiller vs. Dover says otherwise. Even though I'm British, the curriculum in state schools here hasn't done me any harm, mainly because in British schools thinking for yourself is encouraged. Even 'faith' schools here have to teach Evolution and the Big Bang as fact in their curriculum (even if certain teachers within such disagree with it). It's the law. Certainly if they want to keep their state funding coming in.
7/28/2010 7:09:54 AM
#1186106
Anon-e-moose
(Part III):
But hey, if you want your son 'believing' what you want him to, fine. McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell et al need all the staff they can get. Who needs those pointless theoretical physics, biology, cosmology, aeronautical engineering, computer science, medicine, surgical, biomedical, law etc degrees, anyway?! [/sarcasm]. As you say, "I teach him what makes SENSE".
That's certainly going to get him into college, isn't it? Since Kitzmiller vs. Dover in 2005, he's going to get an 'F' in Biology. Guaranteed. Which won't exactly help him in his overall grade.
7/28/2010 7:10:39 AM
#1186130
SeekerLancer
What is wrong with them my poor abused child is that they weren't indoctrinated with lies by their daddies.
"I teach him what makes SENSE. NOT what science textbooks say."
So you're admitting you're an idiot and would rather say "GOD DONE IT" than truly understand how the world works. You teach your kids to question what they're taught? Then hopefully they'll start questioning you. I doubt it though. Your variety of critical thinking is "Does it agree with the bible? No? Then it's wrong."
7/28/2010 8:28:46 AM
#1186131
toth
Clearly, a 6-year-old is who we should model our intellectual capacity on (although it explains a lot about creotards).
Oh, and 100% of science is atheistic, in that it doesn't postulate or require any god. Deal with it.
7/28/2010 8:29:10 AM
#1186271
The L
I said the same stuff when I was 12 that your kid did at 6.
Then, I was exposed to other viewpoints, compared them carefully using common sense. Creationism lost.
7/28/2010 1:16:02 PM
#1186276
Quantum Mechanic
"they theorize about reptiles evolving into humanoid creatures"
Lie much?
Try birds, moron.
7/28/2010 1:31:45 PM
#1186278
Pule Thamex
Congratulations. I'm so pleased for you and your son, and, of course, all the others at Rapture ready. I've just found out from Pharyngula that the rapture is next May 21st. How fantastic is that? Talk about "good news", it doesn't get much better than that. And to top it all off, I've also just found out that the world will be ending next October 21st. How cool is that? After all this time, to finally get your reward and be turned into a naked flier and then into a ghost. With the big plus of knowing that your home, the planet Earth, is going to be destroyed. Wow! You must be absolutely over the moon with that? If not utterly jubilant. I bet the excitement is barely containable. I'm so excited for you. At long last. It just remains to wish you all the best and to say goodbye to you and your son in case I don't have occasion to speak to you before your death next year.
7/28/2010 1:39:04 PM
#1186280
Swede
Thank Odin that we have compulsory education here in Sweden.
Sure, we do have some private schools nowadays, but they have to comply, at least to some degree, with the general curriculum.
7/28/2010 1:47:02 PM
#1186298
Drax
You know, I was nine when I first learned about evolution. It made perfect sense to me even then. But it also caused me massive cognitive dissonance, because it didn't fit in with what I had been taught about seven-day creation and all that. Something had to give, and it did. I think I was about eleven when I finally put all the pieces together and realised that Genesis was just a myth. You're what, how old? Twenty-something, thirty-something? And you still haven't figured it out yet?
Just hope your kid proves to be smarter than you one day.
7/28/2010 3:17:32 PM
#1186382
TheJebusFire
Ok. Scientists say that God isn't real.
Which ones?
They say earth is a kajillion years old.
The earth is around 4.54 billion years old.
They say that people and dinosaurs weren't alive at the same time and that a lot of dinosaurs could have died from a big flood, but that The Flood didn't happen. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE
Man and dinosaur did not walk the earth together.
The death of the dinosaur depends on the region the dino lived in. Some died in massive floods while others died in what scientists believe to be volcanic eruptions.
7/28/2010 8:32:38 PM
#1186411
Deep Search
Well that's just sad. I wonder what the kid will say when he meets someone who believes in a god and understands evolution is fact.
And I suppose they didn't actually study mammal-like reptiles.... That would be harder than just watching a documentary and sighing at it.
7/29/2010 12:43:52 AM
#1186412
Ambrielle
Hate to break it to you honey; your kid is NEVER going to become a scientist, unless he ditches the parental dogma of course.
7/29/2010 12:47:58 AM
#1186415
Prager
I really feel very sorry for those children. Condemned to ignorance by mommy's beliefs… It's just really sad.
7/29/2010 1:27:20 AM
#1186423
EvilEdwin
So your child believes in God? That's fine. I bet he also believes in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy, so what a six year old believes is hardly indicative of critical thinking.
Oh, that's unless you've also taught him that Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy are evil demons...
7/29/2010 3:05:11 AM
#1186577
Mat
I suppose Science is more apathetic to religious dogma than atheistic or agnostic in a strict definition of the terms. You can't undertake any rational scientific study with a presumption as big as literal bible interpretations or a great manipulator in the sky, but for religious scientists (non-creationist ones) this is never really an issue or taken into consideration, and rightfully so.
7/29/2010 12:26:15 PM
#1186679
Red Power Ranger
"When I decided to homeschoool my six year old son..."
Oh boy
"...I told him we were going to do 'Dinosaur Week'. Which turned into 'Dinosaur Month'... at the least! We watched 'Walking With Dinosaurs' and a lot of other documentaries."
Somebody likes dinosaurs, I guess? I don't get your drift here...
"He's a pretty smart kid, too, so he even ended up saying 'Ok. Scientists say that God isn't real. They say earth is a kajillion years old. They say that people and dinosaurs weren't alive at the same time and that a lot of dinosaurs could have died from a big flood, but that The Flood didn't happen."
Now I see where he's going, he's going to say they're all stupid and you'll agree with a six year olds opinion about dinosaurs, right?
"'WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!'."
With capslock as well, I see.
"He gets really upset about people not believing in God - as in he doesn't want them going to hell and he can't believe people can ignore God all around us."
But he can believe that his loving God gives no evidence of his existence to the people around him and that they choose to ignore the "facts" in the bible, written by man, about an invisible sky genie? Huh, how bout that.
"Every time we watch one of those dinosaur things, he gives a big, overly-dramatic sigh whenever they start talking about 'millions of years' or evolution."
Science doesn't generally pander to the youths these days with their dang rap music much like a T Rex.
7/29/2010 7:24:54 PM
#1186681
Red Power Ranger
"One that really cracked him up was where they theorize about reptiles evolving into humanoid creatures. Good grief! And they teach most of this stuff as FACT in schools!!!!"
I have CAPSLOCK and way too many exclamation points, so I'm right!!!!
"I can't believe it. Neither can a six year old. So WHY is it so accepted?!!?"
If two six year olds don't like it (1 physically, 1 mentally), then science be damned, we're wrong.
"I teach him what makes SENSE."
Science?
"NOT what science textbooks say."
Damn, I was close.
"I also teach my kids to question what they are taught - especially what they learn in school."
Well, I admit that you never mentioned other kids and apparently spend all your time with just one, but it's possible others may exist and despise you for no attention. I do know, however that you are lying because they "question what they are taught," believe everything you say, but are HOMESCHOOLED. That means they should be questioning what you are saying, which, based upon your six year old's mental state of health, is clear that they don't.
"It's really not fun at all having a bunch of junior scientists in the house when 99% of science seems to be atheistic."
What's this now? The Water Cycle? Hmm? No God involved? Put this in the burn pile, junior! We are far too busy learning facts to deal with this rubbish!
7/29/2010 7:25:50 PM
#1186697
Sigh...
HisPrincess can't believe it because she can't and probably refuses to understand it! Furthermore, who could expect a bloody six year old to grasp the concepts of evolution?! It isn't grade school material!
7/29/2010 9:33:08 PM
#1187002
"I also teach my kids to question what they are taught - especially what they learn in school."
And yet you don't encourage your kids to question what they are taught about religion. Great. Let's exempt religion from that equation; it sounds fair and intellectually healthy to me!
7/31/2010 6:49:50 AM
#1187024
elphada
a budding tour guide for the Creation Museum on the rise!
He's probably telling you what you want to hear. Yeah....kids do that. Wait till he's around 12.
7/31/2010 9:09:55 AM
#1187134
Spicyrocketsauce
One that really cracked him up was where they theorize about reptiles evolving into humanoid creatures.
http://www.darkintellect.com/00FF00/junk/reptile2.jpg
7/31/2010 11:01:55 PM
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