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Queensland is allowing fundamentalist Christians to teach religious instruction classes in the public schools — and, as we might have predicted, they are teaching nonsense.
Students have been told Noah collected dinosaur eggs to bring on the Ark, and Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs because they were under a protective spell.
Set Free Christian Church's Tim McKenzie said when students questioned him why dinosaur fossils carbon dated as earlier than man, he replied that the great flood must have skewed the data.
A parent of a Year 5 student on the Sunshine Coast said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA.
"The scripture teacher told the class that all people were descended from Adam and Eve," he said.
"My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that 'wouldn't they all be inbred'?
"But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."
Creationists are crackpots and liars — they simply don't belong at all in positions of responsibility in the public schools, because they are going to intentionally miseducate. What do the education administrators in Queensland say? Why, that students can "opt out" of these classes. That isn't the issue, of course — why are the schools investing scarce resources to give religious extremists and lunatics a platform in the public schools at all?Queensland is allowing fundamentalist Christians to teach religious instruction... more
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If this is true, then President-elect Obama and his advisers would be in violation of the Logan Act which means that no one can represent the government unless they are the President or appointed by the President.
Of course we will now hear the arguments about the future of America and Obama even if he is guilty of breaking the law and talking directly to terrorists.If this is true, then President-elect Obama and his advisers would be in violation of... more
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So why does everyone keep saying that America is to blame for all the worlds' woes? Dr. Larry Schweikart Professor of U. S. History at the University of Dayton reveals what he has leaned studying college books. He realeased a new book entitled "48 Liberal Lies About American History: (That You Probably Learned in School)."
Publishers Weekly - Textbooks have long served as a main battlefield in the culture wars and the latest salvo comes from Schweikart, a history professor at the University of Dayton (A Patriot's History of the United States), who examines leading American history texts and other books that he sees as purveying a distinctly slanted view of American history—one that portrays the United States as oppressive, imperialistic, and evil. Each lie is deliberated in a brief essay. A chapter on the notion that FDR knew in advance that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor focuses largely on countering Robert Stinnett's Day of Deceit. The belief that Columbus was responsible for killing millions of Indians (drivel) is, he says, based on faulty statistics. In examining the belief that Richard Nixon sent burglars into the Watergate office complex, the author accepts G. Gordon Liddy's account of events over John Dean's. Regarding the Rosenbergs, Schweikart cites Soviet documents proving they were indeed spies. Schweikart marshals an arsenal of statistics and scholarly studies, and while his own biases will limit his reach, he offers an object lesson in the need for scrupulous balance in the writing of history textbooks. (Sept. 4)
Product Description
A historian debunks four-dozen PC myths about our nation’s past.
Over the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our country’s past, argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that students graduate from high school and even college with twisted beliefs about economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race relations, and many other subjects.
As he did in his popular A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths. A sample:
• The founders wanted to create a “wall of separation” between church and state
• Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers
• Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviets with “atomic diplomacy”
• Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for ending the Cold War
America’s past, though not perfect, is far more admirable than you were probably taught.
Books:
"Voices of UD:" Historical Interpretations of the University of Dayton, ed. and principal author (Dayton, Ohio: University of Dayton, 1999).
A Patriot's History of the United States, co-authored with Michael Allen.
Conspiracy Nation, or, How Americans Trusted Government and the Media Less and Believed Rumors More, forthcoming.
Victorious Wife, Victorious Life: the Biography of Betty Scott Price (Los Angeles, California: Crenshaw Christian
Center, forthcoming)
Readings in Western Civilization, arranged by Larry Schweikart (Indianapolis, Indiana: Simon and Schuster Custom Publishers, 1998)
Readings in Technology and the Culture of War, arranged by Larry Schweikart (Indianapolis, Indiana: Simon and
Schuster Custom Publishers, 1998 So why does everyone keep saying that America is to blame for all the worlds'... more
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News stories based on surveys, polls, studies and statistics are everywhere. Wouldn't it be good to have the mental agility to separate the wheat from the chaff? In the first of a weekly series, author Michael Blastland gives some hints at getting to grips with surveys.
Lesson one: Surveys.
The story: "Motorists turn to public transport as fuel price bites" - Daily Record
"MORE than three in five drivers are turning to public transport due to high fuel prices, a survey has revealed. The survey by transport firm National Express found 61 per cent of car users are definitely or probably considering using public transport due to the rise in prices at the pumps."
The flaw: Suckered by a press release. This story gives the impression that motorists are leaving their cars at home, en masse, for - guess what? - services run by the company that did the survey. In fact, the surveyed motorists are not necessarily doing anything. They are "definitely or probably" thinking about doing something - which they might eventually do once, or often, or never.
The Lesson: Two points. The survey has apparently bundled together the more and the less inclined, the definites and the probables, so that we have no idea if only 1% of the 61% are definites, or if most are. And it gives no indication of how big a change in behaviour they are considering - every trip… or just one.
The second point is to wonder what it means to say you are "probably" thinking about something. Are they thinking that they will probably do it, but haven't made up their minds? Maybe it means they are not sure what they are thinking, but if they had to guess what they are thinking then it would "probably" be something about petrol. Maybe it doesn't mean anything.
And are they actually doing it, as the headline suggests? No idea.
News stories based on surveys, polls, studies and statistics are everywhere.... more
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Supposedly evolutionists have been hard at work for years "perfecting" their "theory" advocating it as fact that demand dissidents be ridiculed for, while they dismiss every other theory of origins for a staunchly atheist viewpoint to science. I think it's utter and fantastic bs. And you can see it here.... Watch this "evolutionist" and you'll see a liar trying to figure out in 11 seconds of silence how to BS his way out of a simple question that evolution depends on, and on which he was even writing a book about at the time!
Don't be cowed into evolution, just because the educational institutions aren't allowed the freedom to differ for the truth. Think for yourselves... don't let "educated" idiots tell you what to think....
Think about it... Think about it... Erase the slate and...
THINK...as if you have a brain you didn't inherit from some monkey. Supposedly evolutionists have been hard at work for years "perfecting" their... more
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First of all, this girl is eighteen (an adult) and I didn't realize it was illegal to not graduate from high school. Why should her dad be punished for his daughter's mistakes? Even the girl takes responsibility: "It was my wrongdoing, not his... he shouldn't have to go to jail for something I did."
What is the judicial branch coming to?
Organized schooling isn't for everyone!
Article:
CINCINNATI - A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter studied has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
Brian Gegner, who lives near Cincinnati, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.
He was ordered months ago to make sure his 18-year-old daughter Brittany Gegner, who has a history of truancy, received the diploma known as GED — something that hasn't happened yet.
Brittany Gegner, who said Monday that she plans to take a required GED test this month, said her father shouldn't be blamed for her failure because she has been living with her mother.
"It was my wrongdoing, not his," said Brittany Gegner, whose fiance and 18-month-old daughter also live at her mother's home. "He shouldn't have to go to jail for something I did."
Her mother agrees.
"Brittany is almost 19 years old now and I think it's unfair to put her father in jail," said Shana Roach. "She's an adult now, and it's not right to rip an innocent man from his home."
Juvenile Court administrator Rob Clevenger Jr. said Monday that the court still has jurisdiction in the case because Brittany Gegner was a juvenile when the truancy problems began and when the charge against Brian Gegner was filed in 2007.
A hearing on a motion filed by Brian Gegner's attorney to reconsider the sentence is scheduled for Friday. Messages seeking comment were not returned Monday at the offices of defense attorney Tamara Sack and the prosecutor.
Brian Gegner's wife, Stephanie Gegner, said she and her husband are afraid he will lose his job if he remains in jail. She said they tried to keep his daughter in school.
"You'd take her to school and she'd go out the other door," Stephanie Gegner said.First of all, this girl is eighteen (an adult) and I didn't realize it was... more
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"As the GOP debates whether John McCain is sufficiently Reaganesque, here's a point in the senator's favor: Like the Gipper, he doesn't consider education a top presidential priority. Indeed, McCain has said very little about the subject on the campaign trail, and his website barely touches it."
Bring on a New Reagan era!"As the GOP debates whether John McCain is sufficiently Reaganesque, here's... more
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