When I went to a (private) Christian school our science book was called Undertstanding God’s World and it was pretty wacky. I think I remember it saying dinosaurs and humans lived alongside each other. I also remember being taught plate tectonics was a lie?
I was enrolled in a Christian school for kindergarten through second grade.
I was suspended in first grade because I threw a tantrum over the teacher saying that dinosaur fossils were all fake and created to deceive people into believing evolution. According to her dinosaurs and humans coexisted before the flood, and scientists know this but carve rocks into bone shapes to fool people because atheists are evil.
Naturally, being a dinosaur obsessed little boy, I flat out rejected this hypothesis. My grandmother had taught me to read way above my level, and I read encyclopedia entrees on different dinosaurs before bed every night, often annoying the shit out of grandma because id ask for explanations of sentences from scientific articles as a 6 year old. So after calling the teacher a moron for the fifth time, I was sent home early. When my mother heard my side of the story, she went to the public school the next day and asked for an enrollment form.
Fuck Christian schools. Science is awesome and dinosaurs are cool.
Dinosaurs are amazing, especially when they play a suburban family that is a thinly veiled metaphor for 90s America (and to a large extent present day America) and environmentalism.
You can probably safely say plate tectonics is a lie in Texas, and not have to worry about inconvenient earthquakes to explain to the class. Try that in NZ…far more active over here.
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 1 month ago
When I went to a (private) Christian school our science book was called Undertstanding God’s World and it was pretty wacky. I think I remember it saying dinosaurs and humans lived alongside each other. I also remember being taught plate tectonics was a lie?
Zron@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was enrolled in a Christian school for kindergarten through second grade.
I was suspended in first grade because I threw a tantrum over the teacher saying that dinosaur fossils were all fake and created to deceive people into believing evolution. According to her dinosaurs and humans coexisted before the flood, and scientists know this but carve rocks into bone shapes to fool people because atheists are evil.
Naturally, being a dinosaur obsessed little boy, I flat out rejected this hypothesis. My grandmother had taught me to read way above my level, and I read encyclopedia entrees on different dinosaurs before bed every night, often annoying the shit out of grandma because id ask for explanations of sentences from scientific articles as a 6 year old. So after calling the teacher a moron for the fifth time, I was sent home early. When my mother heard my side of the story, she went to the public school the next day and asked for an enrollment form.
Fuck Christian schools. Science is awesome and dinosaurs are cool.
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Very punk. I dig it.
AniZaeger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thx that right there is why their next goal is the destruction of the public school system.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 month ago
Dinosaurs are amazing, especially when they play a suburban family that is a thinly veiled metaphor for 90s America (and to a large extent present day America) and environmentalism.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Source: Flintstones
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 1 month ago
A documentary, clearly.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 month ago
At least we had a gay old time.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
You can probably safely say plate tectonics is a lie in Texas, and not have to worry about inconvenient earthquakes to explain to the class. Try that in NZ…far more active over here.