Must. Contain. Myself.
(why the fuck does Jenn send me these links? Satire? Or not? Want to wage a guess?)
The Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair is a fair that promotes children’s interest in science from a Creationist perspective.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? Of course, I thought, nodding happily along, we must include all views of…
And then I saw the “science experiments” that the children engaged in, using thier powers of deductive reasoning:
Elementary School Level
1st Place: “My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)”
Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them. Cassidy has conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey.
2nd Place: “Pine Cones Are Complicated”
David Block and Trevor Murry (grades 4) showed how specifically complicated pine cones are and how they reveal God’s design in nature.
And… wait for it…. Here it is!!
Middle School Level
2nd Place: “Women Were Designed For Homemaking”
Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the natural choice for child rearing; social sciences show that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker.
I AM IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY!! PLEASE, PLEASE LET ME COME BACK!
[EDIT NOTE: I have since been informed that this site is SATIRE. The scariest part about that, is, though… it fooled me. There are enough wingnuts in the world that you just can’t go over the top enough to prove a point]
