Christian curriculum using textbooks that deny climate change and say evolution is impossible

[onthedarkside]

 

Climate change denial is a new addition to science textbooks that have been updated over the last few years, according to the research.

 

The textbooks deny human action is linked to rising temperatures and instead teach students God has a plan to prepare a new heaven and Earth with a better climate.

 

The Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum originated in Texas in 1970 and is used by at least 11 schools in the UK, as well as by some homeschooling parents.

 

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https://news.sky.com/story/christian-curriculum-using-textbooks-that-deny-climate-change-and-say-evolution-is-impossible-12884416

 

[bendejo]

4 hours ago, onthedarkside said:

God has a plan to prepare a new heaven and Earth with a better climate.

Great news!  How exactly did God deliver this plan?  (asking for a friend)  Heaven has been around since Genesis, I would think it is in need of renovation -- central heating would be nice.

 

Future news today!

Conservatives question why the US is not mining cheese on the moon, congressional GOP wants answers!

 

 

[ozimoron]

4 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Great news!  How exactly did God deliver this plan?  (asking for a friend)  Heaven has been around since Genesis, I would think it is in need of renovation -- central heating would be nice.

 

Future news today!

Conservatives question why the US is not mining cheese on the moon, congressional GOP wants answers!

 

 

It's quite depressing. One would have hoped the education system was better than this.

[bendejo]

10 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

It's quite depressing. One would have hoped the education system was better than this.

The conservative quest is to keep US IQs in the single digits. 

 

 

[candide]

From the article: 

"ACE promises that its qualifications will get you into university. They didn't," she said. ????

 

 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, bendejo said:

The conservative quest is to keep US IQs in the single digits. 

 

 

Bodes poorly for the future as the US must compete in a global economy.

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 hour ago, bendejo said:

The conservative quest is to keep US IQs in the single digits. 

 

 

Not sure why you bring Politics into it .

The people in question who use these books are Religious people and they use the books in the name of Religion, rather than Politics 

[Jingthing]

57 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Not sure why you bring Politics into it .

The people in question who use these books are Religious people and they use the books in the name of Religion, rather than Politics 

Both actually.

[Chomper Higgot]

I wonder what they say about the impossibility of virgins giving birth.

[Chomper Higgot]

58 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Not sure why you bring Politics into it .

The people in question who use these books are Religious people and they use the books in the name of Religion, rather than Politics 

Conservative is not a purely political term.

 

Though religious conservatives have largely aligned themselves with political conservatives and visa versa.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Not sure why you bring Politics into it .

The people in question who use these books are Religious people and they use the books in the name of Religion, rather than Politics 

Maybe because the authors of this book not only claimed that  evolution was false, but also human-caused climate change?

[Mac Mickmanus]

8 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Maybe because the authors of this book not only claimed that  evolution was false, but also human-caused climate change?

Those are personal opinions though , its not a Political  viewpoint of the Conseetative party  

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2 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Those are personal opinions though , its not a Political  viewpoint of the Conseetative party  

Not sure why you invoke the Conservative party. What has it got to do with a curriculum made in America by evangelical christians?

 

"Accelerated Christian Education is an American company which produces the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE, styled by the company as A.C.E.) school curriculum structured around a literal interpretation of the Bible and which teaches other academic subjects from a Protestant fundamentalist or conservative evangelical standpoint. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Christian_Education

 

Where do most evangelicals in the US stand politically? While it's understandable the Biblical literalists would oppose the teaching evolution, not so much in the case of teaching that human-climate change is false.

[Tug]

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Bodes poorly for the future as the US must compete in a global economy.

They are a tiny minority very little impact on the world and will be left in the dust when competing for jobs it is sad tho idiots 

[Bkk Brian]

2 hours ago, placeholder said:

Not sure why you invoke the Conservative party. What has it got to do with a curriculum made in America by evangelical christians?

 

"Accelerated Christian Education is an American company which produces the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE, styled by the company as A.C.E.) school curriculum structured around a literal interpretation of the Bible and which teaches other academic subjects from a Protestant fundamentalist or conservative evangelical standpoint. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Christian_Education

 

Where do most evangelicals in the US stand politically? While it's understandable the Biblical literalists would oppose the teaching evolution, not so much in the case of teaching that human-climate change is false.

Just one of its bizarre beliefs aside from using the Loch Ness monster as evidence against evolution:

 

1) God is a right-winger. "Liberals" are the root of all political evil. God's values are rightwing, and anything else is a rejection of His will. On a politics chart, "right" is associated with "absolute" and "God", while "left" is connected to "no values" and "atheism." The term "leftwing", we learn, exists because "left" means "sinister", "to twist something", or "to corrupt." Jesus, by contrast, taught that "we should use what we have to earn a profit." If your political views lean left, you are neither a true Christian, nor a good citizen.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/feb/01/nessie-accelerated-christian-education-curriculum

 

[richard_smith237]

I think the importance of such education systems cannot be understated....  The world still needs refuse collectors and burger-flippers.... 

[BritManToo]

As posted previously Evolution and creation are both just theories.

There is no evidence to support either.

[onthedarkside]

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[ozimoron]

20 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

As posted previously Evolution and creation are both just theories.

There is no evidence to support either.

No evidence to support evolution? Really?

[heybruce]

30 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

As posted previously Evolution and creation are both just theories.

There is no evidence to support either.

theory

 

thē′ə-rē, thîr′ē

noun

1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
2. The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory statements, accepted principles, and methods of analysis, as opposed to practice.
3. A set of theorems that constitute a systematic view of a branch of mathematics.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

 

Evolution is a theory, which means it explains all observed facts.  Creation is a myth.

[HappyExpat57]

3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I wonder what they say about the impossibility of virgins giving birth.

Or that the virgin was impregnated by gawd which is basically a rape.

[animalmagic]

41 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

As posted previously Evolution and creation are both just theories.

There is no evidence to support either.

And the bible?

[RichardColeman]

My own opinion on the Bible and evolution is that the days of creation is the writer's -and probably later copying monks - trying to explain evolution via creationism. Probably a clever scientific religious person thousands of years ago whose message has been lost in time. Sort of a religious Darwin that believed in God but whose message got twisted.

 

 

[metisdead]

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[Tug]

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Or that the virgin was impregnated by gawd which is basically a rape.

Or that Joseph Mary’s husband was a decent guy and married her even though she was pregnant therefore saving her life because in those days a woman was stoned to death for being pregnant out of wedlock 

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

As posted previously Evolution and creation are both just theories.

There is no evidence to support either.

You mean other than the fossil record, that DNA also proves evolution from common ancestry. 

 

And.. the ‘fact’ that while the ‘Theory of Evolution’ is still termed ‘theory’ it is actually a proven fact as it is observable in both laboratory and natural populations. 

 

 

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

As posted previously Evolution and creation are both just theories.

There is no evidence to support either.

No evidence to support evolution? Really?

Given some of the comments on this thread so far.... there is clear evidence of the ‘missing link’ !!!...  ????

[metisdead]

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[bamnutsak]

12 hours ago, onthedarkside said:

as well as by some homeschooling parents.

I wonder how soon before rightwingnutjob governors start telling parents what materials they can use when home-schooling?

 

White Christian Nationalists will never, ever be satisfied. And with the Supreme Court backing them up we should probably get used to the American Theocracy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[herfiehandbag]

8 hours ago, bendejo said:

Heaven has been around since Genesis, I would think it is in need of renovation -- central heating would be nice.

I should imagine that they would steer clear of central heating - given the "other places" experience of heating!