Monday, 6 July 2009

/facepalm

Children as young as five should be taught about evolution to prevent them mistaking Barney the Dinosaur and Fred Flintstone for scientific fact, an academic has claimed
What kind of 'academic' is this?

Should we teach five year olds about Formula One as well, in case they grow up thinking you can enter with a car shaped like a boulder?

Oh, and a session on the First World War wouldn't come amiss, to drum out of them the idea that dogs were an integral part of aerial combat against carrier pigeons...
James Williams, lecturer in education at Sussex University, says that letting pupils believe dinosaurs and humans lived together plays into the hands of creationists.
They're five, for the love of god! Can't they just be kids for a while first?
He warned that creationists - who claim that God created the world and all its animals in six days - go to great lengths to influence children with comics and videos that mix scientific misconceptions with proper science.
Yes, they sound like wackos, prof.

But you know what? So do you...
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5 comments:

  1. North Northwester6 July 2009 at 07:23

    Ah yes, the world-famous lock that Right-wing Christian fundamentalists have on Hollywood.

    That'll explain how Muslims are portrayed as unequivocally evil and wilful terrorists in US film and television, and why every single SFX blockbuster has a semi-literate,drug-taking thieving black guy as the hero or the hero's best mate, right?

    And women always, always know that their place is in the kitchen, nursery, and church, yeah?

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  2. Stan6 July 2009 at 10:54

    If we should educate our kids about any cartoon characters - it should be that Bart and Homer Simpson are NOT role models.

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  3. puzzled of nether wallop6 July 2009 at 15:24

    Of course Barney the Dinosaur is scientific fact. Just ask my pet iguanadon, Don.

    Tsk!

    Some people!

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  4. JuliaM6 July 2009 at 16:59

    "...the world-famous lock that Right-wing Christian fundamentalists have on Hollywood."

    Indeed...

    "...it should be that Bart and Homer Simpson are NOT role models."

    Why not? A married, nuclear (lol) family? Why, they are positively role models!

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  5. Vetnurse6 July 2009 at 21:52

    That is disgraceful saying that dogs are not part of aerial warfare. Look at Snoopy and the Red Baron what more proof do you need??? pfft it is all just a liberal plot to brainwash me of what l know..

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