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Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking Religious Instruction (RI) classes in Queensland despite education experts saying Creationism and attempts to convert children to Christianity have no place in state schools.

Students have been told Noah collected dinosaur eggs to bring on the Ark, and Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs because they were under a protective spell.

Critics are calling for the RI program to be scrapped after claims emerged Christian lay people are feeding children misinformation.

About 80 per cent of children at state primary schools attend one half-hour instruction a week, open to any interested lay person to conduct.

...A parent of a Year 5 student on the Sunshine Coast said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA.

"The scripture teacher told the class that all people were descended from Adam and Eve," he said.

"My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that 'wouldn't they all be inbred'?

"But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."



Queensland Religous Instructors, news.com.au 76 Comments [8/8/2010 3:32:46 AM]
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#1189540
TheFockerizer

Well at least the daughter dared to challenge the fundies

8/8/2010 3:57:23 AM

#1189542
Percy Q. Shunn

Good for the girl! Now she gets to spend that half hour studying in the library to better herself, while her classmates lose IQ points listening to some christ-stain babble on endlessly about utter horseshit. Lucky girl.

8/8/2010 4:06:23 AM

#1189543
Doctor Fishcake

A 5 year old called them out on their bullshit.

Really, what more do you need to hear?

8/8/2010 4:07:01 AM

#1189545
anevilmeme

Pwned by a 5 yr old!

8/8/2010 4:13:10 AM

#1189549
Milza

@ Fishcake and anevilmeme

It's year 5 (5th grade for you Americans), not a 5 year old...

So it's pwned by a 10 year old, which is still impressive.

As a side note, this made front page of the Sunday Mail last week (I think) and got a 2 page spread on the inside.

8/8/2010 4:22:01 AM

#1189551
I read about the afterlife

Okay, the Noah story is already unlikely with just animals -- but now you mean to tell us that he attempted to bring dinosaurs as well?

8/8/2010 4:24:48 AM

#1189557
Tolpuddle Martyr

After their devious invention of DNA, those ungodly scientists invented Quantum Mechanics which resulted in simultaneously alive and dead pussycats, mwahahahahaha!

8/8/2010 4:44:02 AM

#1189559
TGRwulf

"But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."

WTF?!

Do these people listen to themselves when they talk? I'm convinced that they just blurt out the first fucking moronic statement that comes to the edge of their lips.

8/8/2010 4:55:49 AM

#1189562
aaa

That daughter already knows how her brain works. I like her style already.

8/8/2010 5:03:44 AM

#1189564
Cid Highwind

That 10 year old rocks. Way to go, girl :D

8/8/2010 5:04:48 AM

#1189565
Iczer-Four

Ahahahahahahaaa! *Breaths in Deeply* Ahahahahaahahaha!

The Fundie Teacher Got pwned by a little kid!

Kudos to the kid!

8/8/2010 5:06:36 AM

#1189570
The L

Now matter how many times I read this article, it never ceases to be absolutely ridiculous and disturbing.

A "magic spell?" I thought Real, True Christians believed all magic was the work of the devil?

8/8/2010 5:18:52 AM

#1189575


This isn't even theologically correct. When Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, God basically said "fuck you guys, you're on your own now", so he wouldn't have bothered to protect them from dinosaurs or whatever.

8/8/2010 5:26:55 AM

#1189576
Saint Mango

"open to any interested lay person to conduct"

Oh that's a reeeeal comforting thought.

8/8/2010 5:29:56 AM

#1189579
Tearlich

That ten year old already knows how to think better than that teacher!

8/8/2010 5:48:31 AM

#1189592
shadkat

"Students have been told Noah collected dinosaur eggs to bring on the Ark, and Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs because they were under a protective spell."

WTF. LOL. The image in my head when I read that...

This girl is doing well for herself, and it sounds like her dad isn't too shabby either. Whew! Hope for the future!

8/8/2010 6:34:25 AM

#1189593


"But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."

The stupidity of this line is staggering.

8/8/2010 6:35:24 AM

#1189594
Swede

[nitpicking]Being ostracized is more of a mental thing, isn't it? You are made persona non grata, and people will not acknowledge you, right?
And, you are ostracized FROM something, not TO something. [/nitpicking]

Who did invent DNA, then? And how did they get it into our cells, and into the cells of already extinct animals?

8/8/2010 6:35:48 AM

#1189597
Quantum Mechanic

The gene pool needs more chlorine.

8/8/2010 6:40:58 AM

#1189598
KittyKaboom

Students have been told Noah collected dinosaur eggs to bring on the Ark, and Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs because they were under a protective spell.

Wait...Witchcraft for Jesus? Does not compute.

This is the biggest, most stinking pile of WTF ever unleashed on innocent children. I hope their parents put an immediate stop to it. I know I would.

8/8/2010 6:41:43 AM

#1189602
Horsefeathers

"Students have been told Noah collected dinosaur eggs to bring on the Ark, and Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs because they were under a protective spell."

How fucking stupid do you have to be to believe that shit?

"Critics are calling for the RI program to be scrapped after claims emerged Christian lay people are feeding children misinformation."

Misinformation? Well, I suppose that's one way to put it.

"..A parent of a Year 5 student on the Sunshine Coast said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA."

Good for her!

The whole arguing part, not the other thing that is.

""The scripture teacher told the class that all people were descended from Adam and Eve," he said.

"My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that 'wouldn't they all be inbred'?"


Again, good for her.

"But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."

And yet your daughter was the one sent to the library? Seems it was this "scripture teacher" who needed an extended stay among the bookshelves.

8/8/2010 7:01:31 AM

#1189610
D Laurier.

Creationist flock flecers in Australia...
... Curbstomped by a 10 year old girl.

8/8/2010 7:38:40 AM

#1189614
WWWWolf

> "But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."

Here's a dictionary. Please look up "suspension of disbelief". It's a fairly important concept in fiction.

8/8/2010 7:46:42 AM

#1189615
schism

...said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA.

That right there is all you need to know about fundie thoughts on education. Places where you learn things are punishment.

8/8/2010 7:53:44 AM

#1189634
Kamism

" because they were under a protective spell."

WITCHCRAFT!

Damn it, KittyKaboom beat me to it.

8/8/2010 8:40:41 AM
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