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Kids who got a fundamentalist Christian "education" as 4th graders in 2013. . . (Original Post) Stargleamer Jan 12 OP
If real... The Madcap Jan 12 #1
See DBoon's (no. 5) response below n/t Stargleamer Jan 12 #6
I'm so sad The Madcap Jan 12 #13
8. True or False T Rexs and Velociraptors were household pets. Clouds Passing Jan 12 #2
Being smart and well educated is a thing of the past. Irish_Dem Jan 12 #3
Why is that titled a "science" quiz and not a "bible" quiz? Think. Again. Jan 12 #4
Snopes says this is real DBoon Jan 12 #5
Yep canetoad Jan 12 #7
Isn't that the general area that protected Eric Rudolph for years? Buckeyeblue Jan 12 #8
Hmm. Looks like we get more vegans out of it. JanMichael Jan 12 #9
Kids might fail school EnergizedLib Jan 12 #10
Great. My Blue State tax dollars are going to go to some squalid red state Aristus Jan 12 #11
Im guessing the flintstones brettdale Jan 12 #12

The Madcap

(849 posts)
13. I'm so sad
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:11 PM
Jan 12

For the kids. If they can be taught this craziness, what else are they hearing? The smart ones must know they're being lied to.

DBoon

(23,389 posts)
5. Snopes says this is real
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 03:38 PM
Jan 12
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/4th-grade-science-quiz/

The title of the quiz was the same as that of a DVD produced by the group Answers in Genesis and hewed closely to the material presented therein, including the admonition that "If someone tells you the earth is millions of years old, what should be your reply? 'Were you there?'" and the reference to the Bible as "The History Book of the Universe."

The image was of the purported quiz publicized in a post to Reddit's r/atheism forum, made by a user who maintained that it was a real quiz given at a private religious school in South Carolina, and that he was shown the quiz by the student's parent and took a picture of it with his iPhone. He declined to identify the school, stating that "I am not publicizing it since it is a small school and I don't want any publicity that might reflect badly on the kid" and "I don't want the kid to get in trouble, so I am keeping that under my hat until June when school is over," although he did allow that the school was "North of Greer, SC."
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We noted that there is a school, Blue Ridge Christian Academy, that meets all of the criteria described above: a private Christian Academy which is both in the Greenville area of South Carolina and north of Greer, which offers "science lessons [that] are creation-based," and which includes Latin in its fourth-grade curriculum. Blue Ridge didn't respond to our inquiry, but Ken Ham and Mark Looy of Answers in Genesis (AiG) confirmed in the AiG blog that the quiz did indeed originate with that school:

canetoad

(18,495 posts)
7. Yep
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 03:45 PM
Jan 12

I checked too - not to put down the OP but to make sure we weren't spreading misinformation.

Buckeyeblue

(5,770 posts)
8. Isn't that the general area that protected Eric Rudolph for years?
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 03:50 PM
Jan 12

These people have their own version of christianity that fits their world views and bigotries. Remember, man made god in his own image.

Aristus

(68,935 posts)
11. Great. My Blue State tax dollars are going to go to some squalid red state
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 05:00 PM
Jan 12

to make sure these brainless losers have plenty of meth and Bud Lite.

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