In a Federal Way school district near Seattle, a parent objected to the showing of Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, in his daughter's classroom. Perhaps not surprisingly, this same parent opposes sex education in the classroom;
"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."
It's amazing to me to realize that, according to these beliefs, the dog and the horse were both domesticated before the earth came into existence.
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Wow. The stupidity in that article is just breathtaking.
It's terrible some parents prefer ignorance to education for their children.
I guess Dan Quayle didn't belong in school either.
Hmm, so if Gore turned up at the school to give a speech, would he get a frosty reception?
Bob
Bob, I may have to kill you for that pun.
And I think you will find that the dog and the horse were both domesticated after being cast out of Eden with Adam and Eve. Or during the worldwide flood that several most civilizations didn't notice. Or something...
LOOK OVER THERE! A BADGER!
Yep, in fact the earth will burn up as the sun expands to engulf it, but even before that occurs, the land will be uninhabitable in 500 Myr and the surface waters of the oceans will be boiling in 1 Gyr, according to Ward & Brownlee's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PLANET EARTH. Even if humanity or a techie successor manages to escape to someplace more hospitable in that distant eon, they will likely leave a lot of critters behind. All those planetary nebulae beloved of the authors of the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" website demonstrate what things will be like around here in a few billion years. So get over it, Frosty.
Over at Framing Science, I have this post up on why Gore's film is not appropriate for science class:
http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2007/01/creationist_parent_gets…