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(46,335 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:13 PM Feb 2016

1. Flunk 3rd grade science. 2. get hit on head with big family Bible.

3. Decide it's your "Mission in life" to force everyone to believe the way you do, science be damned.

Creationist Ken Ham: Evolution Is A 'Fairy Tale,' Creationism Based On 'Observational Science'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 2/12/2016 5:00 pm

Ken Ham, the founder and president of the Young Earth Creationist group Answers In Genesis, slammed churches that are participating in a series of discussions about faith and evolution this weekend, claiming that it is in fact the belief in evolution that is turning America into a theocracy. Ham joined VCY America’s Jim Schneider on his “Crosstalk” program on Wednesday to discuss today’s International Darwin Day and the corresponding Evolution Weekend, in which houses of worship participate in discussions about the relationship between faith and science. Ham reserved most of his criticism for the churches participating in Evolution Weekend and groups such as BioLogos, a Christian organization that “invites the church and the world to see the harmony between science and biblical faith.” He claimed that people who promote the teaching of evolution in churches, schools and universities are turning the government into a pro-evolution theocracy. “There is no such thing as separation of church and state,” he said. “The First Amendment doesn’t even have that first terminology in it, you know. The Establishment Clause is about the state not establishing a church, but the state has established a church, it’s the Church of Evolution with Darwin as the high priest, if you like, and a lot of these teachers and professors as priests in this religion of evolution that they’re imposing through the schools.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/creationist-ken-ham-evolution-fairy-tale-creationism-based-observational-science#sthash.2q13jrzh.dpuf

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1. Flunk 3rd grade science. 2. get hit on head with big family Bible. (Original Post) Archae Feb 2016 OP
Educators and concerned parents should note the title Vogon_Glory Feb 2016 #1
Quick reminder as to who Ken Ham is jmowreader Feb 2016 #2
So he failed 3rd grade science, and then decided that science was bullshit. Got it. Volaris Feb 2016 #3

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)
1. Educators and concerned parents should note the title
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:28 PM
Feb 2016

Educators and concerned parents should note the full title of Ham's outfit. He's not only pushing nonsense about biology, but with his "young Earth" BS, he's ALSO attacking geology, physics, astronomy, and chemistry.

I have posted many many times here and there that the Fundamentalist/Evangelical attack on evolution is a "Camel's nose" attack on science, science education, and scientific enquiry as a whole. If Ham's and like-minded quackery is made law, the US will have a science education system that would shame a Third-World country and make American science rightly look like a planet-wide joke.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
2. Quick reminder as to who Ken Ham is
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 01:56 AM
Feb 2016

He is the guy who built the failing Dinosaur Museum in the Cincinnati area, and who is building the life-size Noah's Ark attraction....both of which have LOTS of tax money in them.

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
3. So he failed 3rd grade science, and then decided that science was bullshit. Got it.
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 09:26 AM
Feb 2016

How are there this many grown humans in the world that are still just little asshole children? In other words, he's being a sad little bitch because he never learned that he ISNT SPECIAL.

Fuck him.

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