Comment

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?

source

Sort:hotnew top

Zron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

source
- OmegaMan@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Very punk. I dig it.
  
  source
- AniZaeger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  When my mother heard my side of the story, she went to the public school the next day and asked for an enrollment form.
  
  Thx that right there is why their next goal is the destruction of the public school system.
  
  source
- ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.
  
  source
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Source: Flintstones

source
- OmegaMan@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  A documentary, clearly.
  
  source
  - ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    At least we had a gay old time.
    
    source
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

source