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I think that even talking that way about science to first graders should be a crime punishable by jail time.
Good lord, when was this written, the 1920′s? We still haven’t SEEN electricity, but we now know what it is – simply the flow of free electrons from one atom into another. And I can assure you we’ve “felt it” before.
How is it legal to even teach this.
You should see their physics and biology books. They have statements like “gravity exists because God put it there”. From a physics standpoint, it’s a little more credible to describe things like gravity, what it does, and how it affects other things, and admit that the actual source is currently unknown while providing the explanations of the possible hypotheses of its origin. That’s how science works. Here’s the evidence, this is what we determine from the evidence, this is what we are still working on. It doesn’t require a fill-in-the-blank question that is basically “we don’t know what does it so it is caused by the FSM and his noodly appendages”
We are well on our way to Idiocracy. Praise Jesus.
OK I have to…
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-cking-magnets-how-do-they-work
I guess this book will be yet another meme soon.
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Great find !I thought being a university level course was all the more amusing.
Kudos to BJ University for their reasonably priced books however. BJU? Ouch.
The title alone, “Science 4 Students” should be a clue that the author is an idiot.
Either that, or it is based on a 5th grader’s science report that BJU found in the trash.
Whoa!!!
I call myself Christian (And believe) but if that is what passes for Christian as of late, I need a new name/reference/affiliation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If these people practice what they preach, then they need to stop lying to children. Period.
And I do agree that it should be illegal to teach such flat out rubbish. What is in those text books is no better than the trash from the AGW bed wetters.
My personal jury may be out on evolution but this thing with electricity and apparently physics is INSANE!!! My whole profession is based on knowing what the hell electricity is and how it behaves!!! (Fortune 50 employed IT R&D specialist and project implementer).
Sweet mother of Murphy!!!! :S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S
Let’s just hope these people don’t breed…
To balance things out, BJU does have an elementary school and publishes textbooks for primary and secondary. I don’t think was a university level text. That said, I would want to gnaw left leg off if my 6 year old was reading this.
I spent several months in Greenville SC. They were the whitest and most brainwashed people I’ve ever seen in my life. My favorite phrase was “the people of Ham’s curse”, or when they were being liberal “negro folks”.
I was usually referred to as “pre-converted”.
The next chapter explains how gravity is the Devil trying to pull us into Hell.
What is this? Mystery lesson for Neanderthals? Electricity is very easily explained. If this is a textbook for modern day students, good luck America. The stupidication has progressed phenomenally!
This is what your average Republican believes.
#11 qb “They were the whitest and most brainwashed people I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Why do you include whitest? Is that a pejorative term now?
Popcorn is magic too, if you don’t know how it works.
My bullshit meter just went off the scale. Look, fundies may teach bogus science when actual science is in conflict with their techings; but telling people that “no one knows where electricity comes from” when every kid knows about power stations? can’t believe it. I think this is some parody or prank.
Do they drink Brawndo at that college?
This is the ‘consensus’ of the religious scientific community.
Unfortunately, all the original source data was ‘lost’ so this is just extrapolation.
If you don’t believe this ‘consensus’, then obviously you are just as bad as, say, holocaust deniers.
/sarc
Mextli, in this case kind of pejorative. Have you ever flown from LA or Chicago to Salt Lake? You get off the plane and go “Wow, are there a lot of very white people here!”. Same sort of thing.
The people in Greenville as a whole are pretty darn nice and it’s a great place to live. I just found the BJU types really creepy.