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we cannot know ... however the Bible tells us
The Bible doesn't describe how children are conceived or born, it just says they are - and something about virgins - so we can assume that babies just "happen".
Same way of thinking.
I can't comment - too busy hitting head on desk....
But thank you for phrasing it as "creation scientists". As opposed to, y'know, REAL SCIENTISTS.
Man, I wish I had scanned some of my Christian school textbooks, because they had plenty of shit like this in them.
So is this like the "Days of Peleg" bullshit with the hyper-continental drift (comparable I guess with baraminology's hyper-evolution), or what?
I am not a geologist, but it seems to me that continents shooting about at great speeds and colliding violently with each other would create far more cataclysmic damage than the Noachian flood itself. And fewer mountains, more giant flying globs of molten rock.
... Ugh. This just breaks my heart. Some kid out there, eager to learn, and instead of learning, what he gets is a spoonful of bullshit from his parents.
This deliberate sabotage should be illegal, for fuck's sake.
Well, creationists are certainly in a bind here. They have two choices:
A). Deny continental drift and Pangaea. They'd look pretty stupid if they did that, since we've directly observed the former while it happens. No, ahem, "historical science" required.
B). Propose a model of continental drift that would rip the planet apart and make Kent Hovind (he's a denier of Pangaea) look like one of the smarter creationists.
I only see a few things incorrect here.
-We can be pretty sure that Pangaea existed, due to various sorts of evidence.
-We have a pretty good idea of how it broke up.
-You mentioned what the bible and creation "scientists" say, but you left out the part mentioning that they are totally fucking wrong .
Why isn't the 'Ring of Fire' around the North Sea/English Channel?
Same-sex marriage legalised in the UK in 2013. In Holland more than a decade ago.
No disasters - natural or man-made - here.
China has no record of a 'Flood' in it's entire history. And it's ancient documents - written before, after and during said so-called 'Flood' - have been subject to independent peer review.
I bet that textbook hasn't. So what makes you lot think it has the right to exist...?
@Musicalbookworm
Ergo the National Curriculum in the UK. Even homeschooling & private tutoring must conform to the law. The reason why can be summed up in a word: China.
You don't learn how to rape the US's commercial/industrial/intelligence/military databases by reading a book of fairytales, o fundies.
This is legal?
I'm not opposed to homeschooling done correctly, but this crap should've never passed regulations to suffice as adequate scientific education.
Provided in addition to it then it's protected by free speech and freedom of religion, but somehow I doubt most of these parents also give their children textbooks that don't contain this nonsense.
@TimeToTurn
I've wished the same thing. I did have a bunch of the leftover workbooks after I graduated, but I threw them away years ago.
I will say though that I did get quiet a lot out of the NT and OT electives I took. Making kids study the Bible in depth is a great way to push them away from Christianity.
Confused?
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