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Creationism Science Fair

PZ Myers links to the Minnesota Creation Science Fair.

That kinda stuff reminds me so much of Dallas Christian School, a K-12 school I attended before going to college. Something about the word-choice and sentence structure is so similar: very hollow "spiritual talk," devoid of any real content (unfortunately, this linguistic device was also pervasive amongst the students at TAMU). Our biology textbooks back in high school did have the Critically Analyze This Material sticker, but we were lucky enough never to get brainwashed with this tripe(†):

Five things to remember:
1. Know your material.
2. Be Confident.
3. Communicate well.
4. Be thorough.
5. Pray your exhibit will witness to non-Christian visitors.

That is one of our main goals at the Science Fair.

(Emphasis mine.) Really? I thought the main goal of science fairs was to expose students to the process of science? A couple of my favorite suggestions for topics:

53. Were all the animals friendly to man before the Flood? Idea: raise several baby animals like snake and mouse together to see if they remain friends as they are older.
74. What happens to eyes so you need glasses? Did God design them poorly?
95. Are humans mammals? We thought they were made in God's image and not related to animals.

Go read Myers' assessment here. A commenter at Pharyngula noted that these suggestions really border on self-parody.

(†) Perhaps this commitment to academic excellence is why the Bush administration picked DCS to be a National Blue Ribbon School in the No Child Left Behind program...



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