Thursday, February 14, 2013

TEACHING CREATIONISM IS CHILD ABUSE

Physicist Likens Creationists To The Taliban

~ Turning your kids into mindless idiots is child abuse.

Noted physicist Lawrence Krauss earlier this month declared that the teaching of Creationism (also referred to by its obfuscating name, "Intelligent Design") is a form of child abuse. According to Dr. Krauss, people in the United States are so ignorant that the National Science Foundation found that 50% of Americans think the Sun actually revolves around the Earth and not the other way around, click here. And in a recent Gallup poll (May, 2012), 46% of Americans believe that humans were created by God in their present form within the last 10,000 years. This is pathetic.

[Updated Insert - March 16, 2015: To learn about how school vouchers help teach Creationism to children, click here.]

~ Teaching Creationism is like depriving a sick child of medicine.

America is perhaps the only advanced nation in the world where the idiotic Creation vs. Evolution debate still rages on. This cripples America as other nations forge strongly ahead with their rigorous math and science curriculums. European and Asians countries, including U.S. rival China, are making great strides in education while U.S. students rank poorly in math and science in comparison, click here. In fact, any kind of nonsense being disseminated to the public by fools and nuts in China may result in imprisonment. While such Draconian methods are rightly frowned upon by the West, commonsense should still prevail in the U.S. And although the teaching of Creationism as science is no longer allowed in America, Creationists still use many crafty strategies to seep rubbish into the classroom while society looks the other way.

~ In the 2012 film, The Revisionaries, morons hijack education.

The acclaimed 2012 documentary that addresses this issue, The Revisionaries, was first broadcast on PBS this January, click here. (To view encore broadcasts of this documentary, please check your local PBS program listings.) This award-winning film exposes the kind of "child abuse" that the Texas State Board of Education has inflicted on the kids of Texas. They do this by determining what should, and should not, be in the text books of all the subjects being taught, from history to biology to social studies. In essence, a bunch of laymen get to overrule the consensus generated by the scholars – the true experts. According to the former chairman of the Texas Board of Education, Don McLeroy, "Somebody's got to stand up to experts!"

Movie poster.
www.TheRevisionariesMovie.com

These poor kids will have a hard time entering and surviving natural and social science courses in colleges and universities after they graduate. Worse than that, Texas is such a large market for text books that the stupidity of the Texas Board of Education actually influences the types of text books publishers print nationwide, and that in turn dictates what children in other states may read. This in turn hampers America's competitiveness on the world stage long into the future.

[Updated Insert - December 9, 2013: Read our new article on how America has fallen behind: "Far East Tops O.E.C.D. Education Rankings," click here.]

~ Don McLeroy's revisions will be in place until the year 2020.

Photo taken by Patrick Ross.
~ Kentucky's Creation Museum attacks education, click here.


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UPDATE: Anti-Creationist Student On Moyers & Co.

(March 2, 2013) Young Zack Kopplin proves that wisdom does not necessarily come with age. He has shown us that we must all bravely stand up to stupid bullies when they perpetrate injustices and lies. In the long run, reason always triumphs over dogma. The natural home of reason is debate and competition. When ignorant dogma tries to fight for its existence in an environment of debate, competition, and knowledge, it is outside of its own element. The natural element or home of Creationism is mindless rote and obedience – brainwashing (you would have to shut your brain down to accept that all the different species of dinosaurs fit into one wooden ark). That is why Creationism tends to flourish in closed and controlled environments like cults and home-schooling. It is contradictory, illogical, and hypocritical to debate on behalf of "no-debate" (Creationism). That’s why FrogBook.com believes the Internet, the nerve center of global information and debate, is the graveyard of Creationism. Debate on, Zack!!

~ Zack Kopplin on keeping Creationism out of public classrooms.

UPDATE: Film: The Unbelievers Attacks Religion

(May 1, 2013) Read our latest article on science vs. religion, click here.

UPDATE: Fanatics Denied Medicine To Kids; 2 Died

(August 8, 2013) Yesterday, a judge in Philadelphia refused to dismiss third-degree murder charges against Herbert and Catherine Schaible for refusing to give their sick eight-month-old son medicine for religious reasons, click here. The baby died of pneumonia in April. These two morons belong to the First Century Gospel Church, which rejects medical science and preaches faith healing; to them, medicine is the tool of Satan (how insane is that). The reason for the judge's tough stance is because the couple did the same damned thing to another son, Kent, in 2009, a two-year-old who died from bacterial pneumonia after being denied medical treatment. For Kent's death, the Schaibles were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and were placed on probation for ten years. Under the terms of the probation, the couple was required to give all eight of their children (now seven) medical care.

~ Religious idiots face murder charges.

We at the Frog Blog have no idea if the state can prove its case against murder. The bar is set much higher than for manslaughter. In our opinion, even if the Schaibles did lie to the court in 2009 in regard to giving medical treatment to their kids, they might still believe in their hearts that praying to some magical sky master is the only way to treat pneumonia, even when their other son died in 2009. These religious fanatics always have justifications for their incompetence, such as saying, "It's Gods will," and other nonsense. They are stubborn idiots, not malicious idiots. If convicted, the couple may each face five to ten years for the probation violation and 20 to 40 years for the third-degree murder of this baby.

While FrogBook.com doesn't think the state can easily prove their case and a jury may end up setting these two imbeciles free, we do hope they will be found guilty and have the book thrown at them. Regardless of what was really in their hearts when they let their baby die, the harsh punishment they may receive if convicted would deter other less incorrigible and stupid fanatics from doing the same thing to their children. One thing is for sure, the court should have taken the Schaibles' kids away in 2009. The system has failed these children, especially the eight-month-old baby.

[Updated Insert – February, 19, 2014: These two crazy-ass morons both received up to seven years in prison. But what's more important is that they should not get their children back; at this point, we're not really sure.]

~ 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison for a couple of idiots.

UPDATE: "Cyrus Prostituted Herself": Creationist

(September 1, 2013) Read our latest article on Creationism, click here.

UPDATE: Far East Tops O.E.C.D. Education Rankings

(December 9, 2013) Read our latest article on the deterioration of American education, click here.

UPDATE: Bill Nye Debates Creationist Ken Ham

(February 10, 2014) Read our latest article on how Creationists push their political agenda, click here.

UPDATE: Unvaccinated Kids Banned In NYC Schools

(July 7, 2014) Read our recent article on the "vaccine truthers," click here.

UPDATE: World's 1st Atheist TV Channel Launches

(August 4, 2014) Read our latest article on atheism. Is the Internet the graveyard of religion? Click here.

UPDATE: Creation Theme Park Sues For Tax Credit

(March 16, 2015) Read our article on the latest shenanigans of Creationist Ken Ham and his Noah's Ark park, click here.

For related articles in the Frog Blog:
- Creation Theme Park Sues For Tax Credit Click here.
- World's 1st Atheist TV Channel Launches Click here.
- Unvaccinated Kids Banned In NYC Schools Click here.
- Bill Nye Debates Creationist Ken Ham Click here.
- Far East Tops O.E.C.D. Education Rankings Click here.
- "Cyrus Prostituted Herself": Creationist Click here.
- Film: The Unbelievers Attacks Religion! Click here.
- GOP Rep. Calls Evolution & Big Bang Lies Click here.
- The 2nd "Scopes Monkey Trial" Is Coming! Click here.
- Tax-Break For Kentucky Creationist Park Click here.
- Bachmann Wants Creationism In Schools Click here.
- Doomsday Prophets Are Idiots! Click here.
- "Evolution A Myth": Christine O’Donnell Click here.
- Creation Vs. Evolution: Darwin Defamed! Click here.