Comment by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on January 30, 2011 at 1:03pm

Here is an excerpt from Dawkins in "The Greatest Show". Another reason to get angry with purveyors of this carp.

 

"Once again, I am sorry to take a sledgehammer to so small and fragile a nut, but I have to do

so because more than 40 per cent of the American people believe literally in the story of Noah's

Ark. We should be able to ignore them and get on with our science, but we can't afford to because

they control school boards, they home-school their children to deprive them of access to proper

science teachers, and they include many members of the United States Congress, some state

governors and even presidential and vice-presidential candidates. They have the money and the

power to build institutions, universities, even a museum where children ride life-size mechanical

models of dinosaurs, which, they are solemnly told, coexisted with humans. And, as recent polls

have shown, Britain is not far behind (or should that read 'ahead'?), along with parts of Europe and

most of the Islamic world." Richard Dawkins.

Comment by Laura Johnson on January 30, 2011 at 2:32pm

Keep in mind that the parents sitting there with their children were once the poor innocent kids that didn't know any better...And one day those poor innocent kids in the video will be brainwashing their poor innocent kids with the same ignorance. Very sad, indeed.

Comment by Ronald on January 30, 2011 at 4:01pm

Ahh the straw man argument. He should be ashamed to show those pics of apes as grandparents to those kids. He knows evolution takes WAY longer than that. I guess he'd rather believe that we came from dirt...Then the lady says that the bible stories are EASIER to explain to the kids. Of course they are, they were written by people thousands of years ago.

Comment by Steph on January 30, 2011 at 4:03pm

Words just fail me........... sigh............

Comment by Craig Nomazlab on January 30, 2011 at 9:52pm

Wow, they are just so stupid. Those pictures of their "grandparents?" You clearly don't know what evolution is. And that woman talking about how it's "easier to teach?" Well no shit. It's also easier to teach them that Jack Frost goes out at night and sprinkles everything with frost, than explaining how frost exists, but that doesn't mean it's correct. And, yes, "dinosaur" is a new word, but that doesn't make dinosaurs new. I doubt you would find the word "potassium" in the bible either.

Comment by Mario Rodgers on January 30, 2011 at 10:15pm

Where have they been?  The term dinosaur and modern paleontology have been around since the late 19th century.

Comment by Jason on January 30, 2011 at 11:51pm

My blood boiled watching this. Does this brainwashing stupidity exist anywhere other than America?

Comment by Christopher Bricklemyer on January 31, 2011 at 1:01am

Does this brainwashing stupidity exist anywhere other than America?

 

Yeah, the Middle East.

Comment by Heather Spoonheim on February 28, 2011 at 2:21am

Anyone who brainwashed a child into refuting reason should be sterilized, have their children taken away, and then have a permanent restraining order keeping them at least 100 meters from anyone under the age of 14.

Comment by Jack Wille on April 27, 2011 at 4:10pm

watching this video is like nails on a chalkboard

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