Ken Ham, perhaps the world’s leading creationist nutcase, educates some school children about dinosaurs, fossils, and so on. Not sure I’d call it “brain washing”, but it is, er, a little worrying!<\/p>\n
Ken’s pop quizz starts: Ken: “Next time someone says ‘millions of years ago’, what do you say?” Chorus: “Were you there?” It’s worth playing a few times just to hear properly what they’ve been so well-trained by Ken to say.<\/p>\n
An evangelical church, which intends to teach creationism as part of its science curriculum, has submitted a proposal to open a free school in Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n The Everyday Champions Church in Newark handed its plans to open a 625-pupil secondary school in the area to the Department for Education last week.<\/p>\n The application came just a day before the DfE held its first free school conference, where education secretary Michael Gove said applications from creationist groups would be considered, with each judged on its individual merits.<\/p>\n According to the church, the Everyday Champions Academy will possess a “Christian ethos that permeates everything that happens throughout the school”.<\/p>\n The church states that it believes the Bible is an “accurate” depiction of God’s word, and that God is the “creator of all things”.<\/span> (from TES)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ken Ham, perhaps the world’s leading creationist nutcase, educates some school children about dinosaurs, fossils, and so on. Not sure I’d call it “brain washing”, but it is, er, a little worrying! Ken’s pop quizz starts: Ken: “Next time someone says ‘millions of years ago’, what do you say?” Chorus: “Were you there?” It’s worth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}