Originally posted by sonhouse
The sky IS falling. Just like the American educational system, and partly because evolution is watered down, creationism trying to be taught like it was some kind of science on a par with evolution.
Climate change being played down, totally confusing kids who get taught a lot of bullcrap about climate change, also watered down. A lot of this is the direc ...[text shortened]... course Congress is still collecting THEIR paychecks while a million workers are getting shafted.
creationism has little to do with denying global warming. yes, many who deny global warming are creationists, but many are simply greedy asholes.
do you honestly believe that a kid that believes creationism as it will be taught in schools (not mind control or brainwashing) had much potential to be an awesome scientist?
do you honestly believe rjhinds (or any other creationist) is a drooling wast of a person, leeching government money because he is unable to get a job, all because of his creationist views? he is ridiculed, yes, but he won't be in a position to start world war III because he is a creationist.
do you honestly think that learning some obscure facts about geography, math, biology, stuff you will never ever use in real life is much different from learning fairy tales about creationism, stuff you will never ever use in real life?
do you honestly think you or any other parent relies solely on the educational system? that education stops when the kid walks out of school. if anything i would say that the education from home is much more important, and school's only use is to enable the kid to socialize.
it is fun to make fun of creationists. their ignoring of facts, of reason, is laughable. let's stay logical though. them doing one stupid or two doesn't mean they will continue down this road until we begin invoking the benevolence of Chtulhu everytime we launch a boat or sacrificing to Thor so we can get electricity. This same reasoning is the one we mock when fundamentalists consider that gay marriage will inevitably lead to marrying goats, chairs, polygamy, hippieism, public orgies. or that a little marijuana will inevitably lead to you dying in a ditch of a heroin overdose