'Biblically Correct' Tour Guides for Jesus
This is a completely appalling video of home schooled christian children being subjected to a kind of child abuse. They are systematically being stripped of rational thought by their parents and these hucksters who take them around a natural history museum and teach them that it's all wrong. They're creationists tour guides for Jesus. Fortunately the news report isn't exactly sympathetic to them but that doesn't make it any less disturbing.
Watch as they feed the children factually inaccurate information and ignore displays that explain the 'supposed' problem they just identified. Be amazed as they claim that people regularly lived to be 800 years old in the old testament. Gasp as they tell the kids that Tyrannosaurus Rex had to have been a vegetarian before the fall of man in the garden of eden.
The ignorance is astounding but as curator of the museum says, "Regardless of what those tour guides say, some of those kids are to start thinking for themselves."
Actually the bigger problem to me is the home schooling of children. That some states allow this and do not regulate is a problem. If a parent has the option of keeping their children home to educate them, then those children should be entitled to the same educational standards as those in public school. Which means that if the state has a set of science standards that includes teaching evolution as central to biology then the parents should be required by the same standards to present that information. Testing could be conducted to verify if the children are getting that education. You can't feasibly regulate so that the parents don't spin the information but if you at least present the information to them then hopefully the kids will have half a chance of undoing the damage. These children are prisoners of ignorance and are being disenfranchised by their own parents who I'm sure love them but are still royally screwing them out of the development of rational thought.
Watch as they feed the children factually inaccurate information and ignore displays that explain the 'supposed' problem they just identified. Be amazed as they claim that people regularly lived to be 800 years old in the old testament. Gasp as they tell the kids that Tyrannosaurus Rex had to have been a vegetarian before the fall of man in the garden of eden.
The ignorance is astounding but as curator of the museum says, "Regardless of what those tour guides say, some of those kids are to start thinking for themselves."
Actually the bigger problem to me is the home schooling of children. That some states allow this and do not regulate is a problem. If a parent has the option of keeping their children home to educate them, then those children should be entitled to the same educational standards as those in public school. Which means that if the state has a set of science standards that includes teaching evolution as central to biology then the parents should be required by the same standards to present that information. Testing could be conducted to verify if the children are getting that education. You can't feasibly regulate so that the parents don't spin the information but if you at least present the information to them then hopefully the kids will have half a chance of undoing the damage. These children are prisoners of ignorance and are being disenfranchised by their own parents who I'm sure love them but are still royally screwing them out of the development of rational thought.
Labels: creationism, religion, science
posted by netwurth at 10:56 AM
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