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[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I swear I saw somewhere Texas schools gives out these books

[-] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 26 points 3 days ago

When I went to a (private) Christian school our science book was called Undertstanding God's World and it was pretty wacky. I think I remember it saying dinosaurs and humans lived alongside each other. I also remember being taught plate tectonics was a lie?

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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

Next chapter needs to be: "Fucking magnets, how do they work?"

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[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Ok, so here's the theme for this one: you're in the 1890s and you've just seen your first lightbulb. All you know is it runs on electricity instead of oil, and that some fucking idiot caught some electricity in a jar during a lightning storm. Go!"

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 days ago

In 1890 they had telegraph lines between continents for about 40 years.

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[-] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 37 points 3 days ago

This feels like a projection of their deity. Did they want to conflate the mystery of their god to the mystery of electricity? I guess I'm a theist now...

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 22 points 3 days ago

The machine god is real. It's blood is charge

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[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 46 points 4 days ago

There are more pixels than the neurons in the writer's brain

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.

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[-] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 26 points 3 days ago

This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it's mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago

This just in, no one has ever seen lightning, and if you say you have, we’ll have to burn you at the stake to protect the children.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

Replace 'electricity' with 'wind' and/or 'moving air' and/or 'breath', and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought 'spirit' was.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://www.amazon.com/Science-4-for-Christian-Schools/dp/1591664233

https://www.bjupress.com/about/

[-] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 days ago

This is for real? How is it even legal?

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Tide comes in and tide goes out. You can't explain that.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 15 points 3 days ago

I'm curious what they think a lightning strike is.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

De-energize an electrical panel, remove the panel covers, energize it and let them fuck around and find out.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a 'normal' university, the author isn't completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.