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Related: About this forumAccelerated Christian Education's top 5 lies about Evolution
For those who don't know, Accelerated Christian Education is a company that makes textbooks for use at private Christian schools and by fundamentalists who home-school.
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4. Solar Fusion is a Myth
The sun, as everybody knows, works by nuclear fusion. Unfortunately, Creationists have a pet theory, outlined on pages 7-9 of Science 1096 (a PACE devoted entirely to refuting evolution, packed with misinformation and distortions of the truth). In short, Creationists want to prove that the sun is shrinking. If the sun is shrinking at a constant rate, then billions of years ago it would have swallowed up the earth. This, they say, proves that the universe must be young.
Unfortunately for them, the sun is not shrinking. Thats because, contrary to their assumptions, the sun is not a massive gas boiler gradually shrinking as it burns fuel. Its a fusion reactor. This doesnt fit their model, so they outright deny the truth:
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Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)laconicsax
(14,860 posts)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.
Thousands of children are to receive publicly-funded vouchers enabling them to attend the schools which follow a strict fundamentalist curriculum.
The Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) programme teaches controversial religious beliefs, aimed at disproving evolution and proving creationism.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)eqfan592
(5,963 posts)...when it comes to religion and especially religious fundamentalists. The spreading of this sort of disinformation as EXTREMELY harmful to our future generations, and that children are being fed this bullshit from people they should be able to trust is disgusting, pure and simple.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)I'll add: this is (one of) the reason(s) just "leaving them alone" and "agree to disagree" is morally the wrong choice.
longship
(40,416 posts)Because the universe is 6,000 years old so dinosaurs lived with humans, but they ate only plants until that evil Eve ate that fucking apple. But they don't say how Adam, Eve, and their progeny avoided being et by a T Rex after the apple incident. But at the Creation Museum they do explain how Adam's and Eve's sons found their wives...
That's right. As PZ Myers reported, they f*cked their sisters. Good Christian values there. Apparently incest is best according to the Bible -- at least according to Ken Ham at his Creation Museum.
I want a PhD in this shit. Maybe I could get a teaching job and wouldn't have to bother with those messy mathematical equations. I can just make shit up.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)That's the most telling evidence that nuclear reactions power the sun. The sun is known absolutely to be a powerful source of neutrinos. That's one way folk know cold fusion doesn't work: it doesn't throw off neutrinos.
Just another strange quark of nature.
daaron
(763 posts)Hur hur hur.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,424 posts)not neutrinos, which are very had to detect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_detector
You are, of course, right that the Sun produces neutrinos, though: http://www.chemistry.bnl.gov/sciandtech/sn/default.htm
Whether or not cold fusion should be producing neutrinos, the difficulty in detecting them means no-one is going to be placing a honking great neutrino detector next to the cold fusion experiment in the near future.
http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability/41839-scientists-confirm-cold-fusion-experiment
dimbear
(6,271 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 25, 2012, 07:33 PM - Edit history (1)
Muriel speaks the truth.
Neutrino detectors are massive.
I also admit that neutrinos are not in fact quarks.
edit: brainfart
dimbear
(6,271 posts)Or as these scholarly types express it, 50 AD, always a sign of an open mind.
I love these dates. We're just as certain that Mark was written around 50 CE as we are certain that "Gone With the Wind" was written about 1865.
You can tell because Sherman's March.... Atlanta in flames!
Right.
dmallind
(10,437 posts)20 years or so. Surprised they didn't go for 33 CE.
daaron
(763 posts)How come no lawsuit is possible for Creation Museum funding? How can taxpayers paying for this crap POSSIBLY be legal?
Other creationist morans have no problem filing suit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_controversy_between_Answers_in_Genesis_and_Creation_Ministries_International
When do we get to take a bite of that unconstitutional apple? Oh wait - we have a SCROTUS not a SCOTUS. Fuck.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)"The nuclear fusion theory of how the sun emits heat and light is an invention of evolution scientists
All other theories require the sun to use up all its energy sooner than the evolutionists invented timetable would allow."
I'm going to lie down in a darkened room. I can't take any more.
I'm almost tempted to buy one of those textbooks. It would be like reading an extended Tom Tomorrow comic.