The op/ed link is here - Teaching Children Creationism is Child Abuse.
At this moment as I write these first words, I have not read the op/ed. The reason I am imparting some wasted bytes from my small corner in the pucker of Maine is the Facebook conversation that resulted from my initial response. It may still be ongoing.
I was the first responder so to speak and with tongue firmly implanted in cheek, I wrote -
"Okay, Okay.... You Liberals and your billions of years notion of Creation. Listen up, I am only going to type this once, uh No make that twice now. Gues I am going to have to hit you folks one at a time......... The Universe is only 6000 years old. Why is it only 6000 years old? Well, because some Holier than thou guy ( it has to be a guy BTW) read some old Hebrew books and they told him so. What they don't make clear, and they should, (it would clear up things dramatically), is the period of the Dinosaurs happens in the first two weeks. God made them first, realized that critters bigger than his vacation house in Acapulco were probably not a very good idea. So he tossed a big rock down and killed them all. Then he used some common sense and created smaller beings in his own image, not ones that looked like the lizards that cavorted outside his cliff side retreat in Acapulco. Okay? Got it? Let's move on now. Subject is closed."
Steve A. responded -
"Dinosaurs are described in detail in the book of Job as he was looking at one..... A brontosaurus to be exact. Yes. We existed together."
My response to him went -
"Steve - ".. A brontosaurus to be exact. Yes. We existed together." ...... Hmm. Maybe, but it couldn't have been for more than week or so until that big rock came down. I mean, You Thumpers really seem to insist on cramming ten pounds of Creation into a five gallon bucket of Science. But that's okay that you folks prefer the Reader's Digest version of Life and everything involved. Life is complicated enough without confusing it with the truth."
So far, that is how far the conversation has gotten.
Whether teaching Creationism to a child is a form of child abuse , well, I have no opinion. I do consider it stupid to insist on tales and parables for the views that make up our realities. Life on LSD made more sense to me than the current fringe thinking of the New Christianity. Instead of broadening our minds, many of us would stifle and shrink them back to when people thought Tomatoes were bad for us. Science is becoming our new religion and I for one applaud it.
Be religious for your soul. Believe in Science for your health. The two can co-exist. But only if the devout stop dumbing themselves down.
Keep it 'tween the ditches ............................................
3 comments:
Mike:
Steve had said... "Dinosaurs are described in detail in the book of Job as he was looking at one..... A brontosaurus to be exact. Yes. We existed together."
I would have thought you would have KNOWN the above was true by simply watching the CREATION VIEWPOINT as espoused on damn near every episode of the Flintstones! Fred (and sometimes Barney) feast on brontosaurus burgers all the time.
Geez. You really should go back and apologize to the guy about that... and mention how you are now a convert due to the Flintstones. :)
PipeTobacco
The bible doesn't even say how old the Earth is or when it was populated by critters including us. Some guys calculated it. These are the same guys that tell us that the Second Coming will happen next week. Their reliability is questionable.
Yellowdog Granny posted a meme that says it all: How can you be against abortion when your god drowned millions of babies in his flood. (god's tantrums seem a lot like Trump's)
the Ol'Buzzard
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