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'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:11 am
by _ludwigm
This generation will travel to the Mars and Venus - after their fathers reached the Moon.
http://columbia-sc.patch.com/articles/s ... -dinosaursSpeak Out: SC Christian School Test Asks, 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
A test from an Upstate Christian school is making the rounds on social media.
The test, allegedly given to fourth-grade students at a Christian-based school north of Greer, is titled "Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel." A book with the same name was published in 2004 by Answers in Genesis.
The test first started making rounds on social media on Sunday when it was posted in a chat room on atheism on Reddit.
According to Snopes, the test is legitimate as someone believed to be the child's father sent a statement to the website saying that the test had been brought home by his 10-year-old daughter.
The man wrote that some of the test questions were first brought to his attention when he and his daughter heard a commercial about a dinosaur display traveling through the Upstate. The man began to question his daughter after she argued that dinosaurs were not millions of years old, as stated in the commercial. The next day she brought home the attached test.
The man wrote that his child will not be attending the school next year, but said that he would not disclose the name of the school until the end of the school year.
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Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:22 pm
by _bcspace
I believe in God, not dinosaurs. But I do believe God put dinosaurs on the earth via evolution and that they died out millions of years ago.
Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:44 pm
by _MeDotOrg
I'm not 100% convinced that this story is legitimate. (Would you continue to pay a school to educate your child in this fashion?) But if it is true...
I suppose that it is possible that someday scientists will discover that they were wrong, and the earth was created 6,000 years ago, but the implications are staggering.
It means the Chicago Cubs' World Series losing streak spans 1.73% of the history of the world.
Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:42 pm
by _Ceeboo
MeDotOrg wrote:
It means the Chicago Cubs' World Series losing streak spans 1.73% of the history of the world.
Peace,
Ceeboo
Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:30 pm
by _Tarski
bcspace wrote:I believe in God, not dinosaurs. But I do believe God put dinosaurs on the earth via evolution and that they died out millions of years ago.
Yes and I removed the rain water from the street in front of my house by evaporation.
Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:58 pm
by _bcspace
I believe in God, not dinosaurs. But I do believe God put dinosaurs on the earth via evolution and that they died out millions of years ago.
Yes and I removed the rain water from the street in front of my house by evaporation.
So you're claiming to be able to track all matter and energy in the universe for all time? That's pretty good considering science can only track a few particles at a time for a few milliseconds at a time if that.
Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:46 am
by _Tarski
bcspace wrote:So you're claiming to be able to track all matter and energy in the universe for all time? That's pretty good considering science can only track a few particles at a time for a few milliseconds at a time if that.
Why do I need to track anything? The job got done, didn't it?
Similarly, evolution happened because of natural selection and not because of the activities of some pre-existing bearded super ape. God didn't need to do anything and it sure looks like he in fact did nothing. It was all natural, mindless, physical, and unplanned. That's what we call evolution by
natural selection.
BCSpace is like the aboriginal tribeman who having learned how combustion engines work returns to his tribe-- whose members have for years believed that cars contain motion demons-- and explains to them the entire theory of combustion engines, drive shafts, power trains and so on and then ends the lesson with "
and so that's how the demons do it you see".
Things to remember:
1. There were no beards before there were arthropods or fish. That includes God's (nonexistent) beard as well as his molars and toenails.
Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:08 pm
by _subgenius
that "quiz" is an obvious hoax...more proof of how desperate (and gullible) atheists truly are....(i suspect they have family issues which have been detrimental to a normal healthy psychological development).
Anyone who has seen the quiz (first appearing on reddit atheism forum) can easily notice that the quiz is written and structured at a level well above 4th grade.
even the handwriting is inconsistent (notice the "a" "n " and "s" on first page compared to those on second page). This is the only way an atheist is ever capable of deriving meaning and worth in their own life...so sad.
Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:39 pm
by _ludwigm
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/sciencetest.asp call it "
undetermined", then says:
We note that there is at least one school that meets all of the criteria described above: a private Christian Academy which is both in the Greenville area of South Carolina and north of Greer, which offers "science lessons [that] are creation-based," and which includes Latin in its fourth-grade curriculum. We are currently awaiting a response from that school about whether they might have been the source of the quiz.
Greenville Christian Academy... Are they waiting the decision of their Correlation Committee?
The school is available on
http://www.
greatschools.org.
Re: 'Do You Believe in Dinosaurs?'
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:41 pm
by _Molok
MeDotOrg wrote:I'm not 100% convinced that this story is legitimate. (Would you continue to pay a school to educate your child in this fashion?) But if it is true...
I suppose that it is possible that someday scientists will discover that they were wrong, and the earth was created 6,000 years ago, but the implications are staggering.
It means the Chicago Cubs' World Series losing streak spans 1.73% of the history of the world.
I can't say if this specific story is legit, but there are no shortage of fundamentalist schools that teach just this kind of material. I should know, I went to one of them for a while.
