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Pupils attending privately-run Christian schools in the southern state of Louisiana will learn from textbooks next year, which claim Scotlands most famous mythological beast is a living creature.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/loch-ness-monster-cited-by-us-schools-as-evidence-that-evolution-is-myth-1-2373903
TBMASE
(769 posts)He's been seen just as frequently in grainy footage
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)What a bunch of idiots.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)It has been rumored.
Arkansas Granny
(31,519 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)"Youngsters will be told that if it can be proved that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man, then Darwinism is fatally flawed."
What an insane argument. Evolution doesn't put an expiration date on species. It would be all the same to evolution if a plesiosaur were alive in Scotland.
The sad error here is that they say the world is only a few thousand years old and thus men must have existed alongside dinosaurs in the past. But men currently existing alongside a dinosaur wouldn't change things one bit... it says nothing about the age of the Earth, only about the ongoing success of the loch ness monster species.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Hard core creationists are completely and utterly clueless.
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)Darwin is dead
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Alligators and sharks to name two that are widely known.
There are tons of others, but everyone knows what alligators and sharks are.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)intheflow
(28,477 posts)I'm pretty sure they were around with the dinosaurs, too.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)After all, if God created a species he wouldn't allow it to vanish entirely, yadda yadda.
To them, evolution does put an expiry date on species, which their theology teaches are supposed to be permanent.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)"Having never learned anything about darwin or evolution I can conclusively state that it is all false!"
/just like opposing books/movies that they've never read/watched.
treestar
(82,383 posts)That it is a marvel to behold.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)their worthless diplomas
poor kids
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Drale
(7,932 posts)fell through a time portal and came to Loch Ness by accident, that or aliens put her there to fuck with us.
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)Some are quite witty.
-- Mal
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Especially because Scotland gets to hear the news first.
14thColony
(1,515 posts)If a moder-day plesiosaur would undermine evolution, then the dragonfly, jellyfish, stomatolite and coelacanth should have blown it apart a century ago. Says more about the authors' utter ignorance than anything else.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Or sturgeon.
And specific examples of "living fossils" don't disprove evolution; it a specific animal evolved to fit an ecological and evolutionary niche and its environment has remained largely unchanged, and it faces low predation or environmental influences, then there's no reason to expect that it would evolve beyond its existing form. This just shows that creationists don't understand Darwin, natural selection, or how evolution works.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Ya think? What gave it away for you?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)because that was the last year they updated the ideas in it.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Champ is a picture of a log. The Loch Ness Monster is a toy submarine with a head made out of plastic wood. Ogo Pogo is a Plesiosaur!
http://video.adultswim.com/the-venture-bros/two-ton-21.html
Iggo
(47,558 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)pennylane100
(3,425 posts)The fact that Catholic schools teach transubstantiation is just as ridiculous.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)angels really exist. Don't have a source for the figure, but I'm pretty damned sure I saw it well sourced here quite some time ago.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)When I was very young, my dear Mum told me that god had assigned my own angel to protect me. I know that she just wanted me to feel safe but I did not like the idea of this spirit being with me twenty four hours a day. I think that many Catholics still believe that stuff.
rox63
(9,464 posts)And at least Catholic schools teach that evolution is real. Although I abhor many things about Catholic teachings, their schools generally have a decent academic curriculum. (I attended Catholic schools throughout my childhood, so I know whereof I speak.)
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)"Thousands of children are to receive publicly-funded vouchers enabling them to attend the schools which follow a strict fundamentalist curriculum."
That's what I find especially outrageous.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)Which means my taxes with go to the double fantasy world, cartoons based on cartoons. Geez!
corkhead
(6,119 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)gaspee
(3,231 posts)The rest of the world most think us complete fools.
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)This is just plain humiliating.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)Their erroneous religious belief is more important to them than making sure children have a foundation in the sciences - which is vital for so many jobs.
They are a group that expresses hatred toward fact.
We would be better off, as a nation, if they decided to emigrate and create jesusland.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)that precede dinosaurs... see SHARK...
Oh never mind
You got to wonder why the rebellion failed against Rome. I mean T-Rex version the Tenth Legion... my money would be on a really pissed off T-Rex
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)an elephant having a laugh.
http://freethinker.co.uk/2012/06/24/loch-ness-monster-proves-darwin-wrong/
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I visited Loch Ness and never did see Nessie.
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)That's where the dinosaurs turned out to be all this time, according to the Dilbert comic strip.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Though I do have a photo of Nessie on the bank of Loch Ness. But of course, it was a model the guide put there.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Then something is seriously hosed with the education system in the country.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)My ad.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)it does seem to prove that Homo Erectus is still alive and well and running a school in Louisiana.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)Unless they're trying to prove she's magical which then disproves science somehow.