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Remember this too dumb to be true Creationist ‘science quiz’: Snopes says it’s real!
05.08.2013
04:23 pm
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Recall that supposed Creationist “science quiz” that was going around on reddit and Facebook last month? The one that most people branded as a fake because it just seemed too stupid to be real?

Well, it turns out that it IS true… no, not the literal belief in Noah’s Ark part, but this “science quiz” WAS actually given to 4th graders in the Blueridge Christian Academy of Greenville, South Carolina, as the urban legend detectives at Snopes.com found out. The actual father of the child whose test was on reddit wrote in to quiet the naysayers asserting that the quiz did indeed belong to his 10-year-old daughter, and offering as proof a shot of the backside of the quiz:

I didn’t know that this was being taught to her until we heard a radio commercial together about the Discover the Dinosaurs exhibit was coming to the TD Convention Center [in Greenville, South Carolina].

The Commercial starts out, “After 65 million years, the dinosaurs have returned ...” She commented immediately that it was only four thousand years ago.  When I corrected her, she snapped back, “Were you there?”

I have since taught my daughter differently, but I am sure she is confused now and plan to make sure she understands that teachers are people too and can be factually wrong.

The test showed up [at] home a day later to my disgust.

It’s a great school for Reading, Writing and Math.  She is ahead of most of her peers and also is taking Latin there. But I now know to be vigilant for the rest of the year about her science teachings.

She will not be attending the school next year.

Religion, an organized system of ignorance!

Read the rest at Snopes, including the back side of the test.

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.08.2013
04:23 pm
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Noah’s Ark and the Dinos
08.26.2009
10:01 am
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Marcus and Sarah’s take on the “literal truth” of Noah’s Ark, as seen on Deviant Art:

This is another scene from our home-built “Creation Museum” inspired by the retards at Answers in Genesis. One of the frequent questions people ask is “what happened to the dinosaurs?” Well, if you didn’t grow up under a rock, you know they went extinct due to climate changes resulting from an asteroid impact millions of years ago (although descendants of dinosaurs still live on in the form of - chicken) But if you’re a redneck creationist country bumpkin you might believe that whole Noah’s Ark story and how the dinosaurs didn’t make it (but the serpents and pigs did!)

Here’s our artistic rendering of the actual event. Once Mrs Noah got the ark sea-worthy again and got rid of the dinosaurs, everything was OK for the surviving 2 (plus or minus) of all the species.

And here’s their Garden of Eden! Like Bill Maher says, “These people are treating The Flintstones as if it was a documentary”

Posted by Richard Metzger
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08.26.2009
10:01 am
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