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I think that even talking that way about science to first graders should be a crime punishable by jail time.
Good lord, when was this written, the 1920’s? We still haven’t SEEN electricity, but we now know what it is – simply the flow of free electrons from one atom into another. And I can assure you we’ve “felt it” before.
How is it legal to even teach this.
You should see their physics and biology books. They have statements like “gravity exists because God put it there”. From a physics standpoint, it’s a little more credible to describe things like gravity, what it does, and how it affects other things, and admit that the actual source is currently unknown while providing the explanations of the possible hypotheses of its origin. That’s how science works. Here’s the evidence, this is what we determine from the evidence, this is what we are still working on. It doesn’t require a fill-in-the-blank question that is basically “we don’t know what does it so it is caused by the FSM and his noodly appendages”
We are well on our way to Idiocracy. Praise Jesus.
OK I have to…
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-cking-magnets-how-do-they-work
I guess this book will be yet another meme soon.
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Great find !I thought being a university level course was all the more amusing.
Kudos to BJ University for their reasonably priced books however. BJU? Ouch.
The title alone, “Science 4 Students” should be a clue that the author is an idiot.
Either that, or it is based on a 5th grader’s science report that BJU found in the trash.
Let’s just hope these people don’t breed…
To balance things out, BJU does have an elementary school and publishes textbooks for primary and secondary. I don’t think was a university level text. That said, I would want to gnaw left leg off if my 6 year old was reading this.
I spent several months in Greenville SC. They were the whitest and most brainwashed people I’ve ever seen in my life. My favorite phrase was “the people of Ham’s curse”, or when they were being liberal “negro folks”.
I was usually referred to as “pre-converted”.
The next chapter explains how gravity is the Devil trying to pull us into Hell.
What is this? Mystery lesson for Neanderthals? Electricity is very easily explained. If this is a textbook for modern day students, good luck America. The stupidication has progressed phenomenally!
This is what your average Republican believes.
#11 qb “They were the whitest and most brainwashed people I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Why do you include whitest? Is that a pejorative term now?
Popcorn is magic too, if you don’t know how it works.
My bullshit meter just went off the scale. Look, fundies may teach bogus science when actual science is in conflict with their techings; but telling people that “no one knows where electricity comes from” when every kid knows about power stations? can’t believe it. I think this is some parody or prank.
Do they drink Brawndo at that college?
This is the ‘consensus’ of the religious scientific community.
Unfortunately, all the original source data was ‘lost’ so this is just extrapolation.
If you don’t believe this ‘consensus’, then obviously you are just as bad as, say, holocaust deniers.
/sarc
Mextli, in this case kind of pejorative. Have you ever flown from LA or Chicago to Salt Lake? You get off the plane and go “Wow, are there a lot of very white people here!”. Same sort of thing.
The people in Greenville as a whole are pretty darn nice and it’s a great place to live. I just found the BJU types really creepy.
Ummmmm.try to be open-minded a little people-
“Electricity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it.”
This is true! We sense it and observe it indirectly.
“Some scientists think that the sun may be the source of most electricity.” Well, yeah, coal, oil, photosyhthesis, steam turbines, et al.
“All anyone knows is that electricity is everywhere and that there are many ways to bring it forth”.
Sure- the grid, static electricity from movement across a carpet, natural discharge through lightning.
I think you guys are being pwned by whoever wrote this; he counted on your knee-jerk rejection of religion.
“Electricity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it.”
This is true! We sense it and observe it indirectly.
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Oh, I’ve felt it. Trust me.
Won’t do that again.
Electricity Is NOT A MYSTERY. Idiot.
“We sense it and observe it indirectly.”
We sense and observe *most* things indirectly. I don’t see you, I see photons from the lightbulb, hitting my retina after bouncing off of you.
Rich, try standing in the middle of a golf course while waving a club over your head during a thunderstorm. You’ll get to see electricity up close and personal.
#10 KiltedTim: not only do they breed, they breed more than normal people, because their god wants it and will make it all OK (they say). Look up the “Quiverfull” movement, and examples such as the Duggars. Idiocracy In Action.
Who ever wrote, “Electricity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it.” has never put their fingers in a light socket.
Yikes!
Can anyone suggest a good electricity primer to be like “On Origin of Electrons” offering?
#20 qb “Have you ever flown from LA or Chicago to Salt Lake? You get off the plane and go “Wow, are there a lot of very white people here!”.”
LOL, I see what you are saying and it must be a shock. Did you ever think about someone going the other way?
#24 Mextli Oh yeah. I’m a white guy from Calgary. The first time I was on the south side of Chicago I knew I was way out of my element.
Verne Biddle teaches “Natural Sciences” at BJU. The whole campus is full of people like that.
What these people need is a textbook of unquestionably divine origin to tell them what to believe about electricity, something they would recognize as the only authoritative source for this information.
That’s the sort of thing they prefer.
#9–Jason==you crack me up. Feel superior because you have one foot/one toe out of the supersititious/ignorant camp? Well, thats actually true. Why not take another step though? Do you have no glimmer of the notion that to reject electricity is as well founded as rejecting evolution? No? Really?
Yep, same thing. The is ying and yang. Dark and light. Encouraged Ignorance and Learning. Religion and Science. Choose your camp.
I’ve called white people “albinos” to good effect. Being of the class that never gets insulted, most take it with a quizzical look.
Still fighting against what we were told as kiddies. Silly Hoomans.
#27–myself==”Still fighting against what we were told as kiddies.” /// Thats if your lucky. This thread however is about: “Still fighting FOR what we were told as kiddies.” Its not just a perspective thing. Can you ever actually grow up without fighting against what we were taught as kiddies? God, Country, Politics, Food Habits, bathing all the rest? Or as the top thread asks: Patriotism?
Its amusing that somewhere along the line of becoming human we don’t recognize the great gifts/tragedies/responsibilities of the young maleable mind. St Augustine recognized it: Give me a child for the first four years and he is mine forever. (sic-close enough).
So, in the same way you can discover electricity==take two groups of kiddies, all born the same. Raise one group in Oklahoma, the other on a pig farm === oops, that won’t work, same thing. Ok–raise the other group in a commune north of San Fran. Oops, again same thing. OK_OK=== raise the other batch of kiddies somewhere that isn’t a pig farm. Note how the two groups remain the same (eg, 7% grow up gay, 90% grow up with some religion or another, 5% learn to think for themselves, 85% have kiddies and so forth). Then look at the differences: different religion, different patriotism, love of different sports.
Some things arise out of the condition of being human, others arise out of culture.
I mean, really, each of you should be able to look within yourself and see where your values really come from.
No?
Hey some states may still have equipment to make
em feel it. Strap em in.
Ignorance will warp more minds than anything else.
TAX ALL RELIGION – TODAY- NOW -FOREVER.
Banish all free thinkers for they DO understand letrisitee!