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Wait, literacy was a long time ago, wasn't it? So was the Age of Reason. And science.
Apparently, none of these things has percolated through to Bob Jones University yet.
Relevant page scan reproduced here for the full horrific effect:
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"Creation Science" is one thing. But Bob Jones University is outright flat lying here. "Electricity is a mystery." That might have been true in 1710, ninety years before Alessandro Volta invented the first battery. By 1810, electricity was being widely studied all over the civilized world. But in 2010? Look, let me be straight with you here, I don't even believe that Bob Jones has been alive for two hundred years in order to have spent them all under a rock. "Some scientists think the sun may be the source of most electricity. Others think that the movement of the earth produces some of it." There is no lie so convincing and dastardly as that which knowingly contains a grain of truth placed there to mislead.
I'm not sure which is worse — the idea that there are people ignorant enough and gullible enough to swallow a piece of a-wizard-did-it crap like this, or the idea that there are people in positions of (at least within certain communities) trust who are mendacious enough to take advantage of the poor bastards by feeding them this kind of bullshit and presenting it as fact. I can only conclude that Bob Jones "University" is actively, knowingly, and intentionally in the business of turning out people utterly unprepared to deal with the realities of the modern technological civilization on this planet.
(Speculation upon possible agendas behind such a venture is left as an exercise to the reader.)
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The thing that really frosts me is the positions they are "defending" are not even found in the Bible. They are the conjecture of past church leaders that did not have the sciences to illuminate those areas where the Bible does not comprehensively explain point they were curious about.
This is all about pride. They are unwilling to admit that their foundational suppositions should be corrected, so they subject people to their brain-twisting justifications. They they claim they do it to defend G-d. Please! This is the Emperor called out with no clothes.
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The thing I hate the most about this is that as contemptible as their gross misstatements of science are, they make a couple of useful points along the way. Proof positive that a stopped clock is right twice a day, I guess.
It’s true. No one has ever seen electricity. The wavelength of an electron is orders of magnitude smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Strangely we can see the carrier particle of electromagnetism — the photon — but we can’t see the fundamental unit of electric charge — the electron.
Likewise, we haven’t heard electricity. We hear electricity’s effects upon the world, but not electricity itself.
And, you know, that distinction between being able to directly perceive a carrier particle but not being able to directly perceive a fundamental unit of charge — that’s an interesting distinction. If you think about it, it’s really kind of strange. That makes it perfect material for inclusion in a science curricula.
But the idea that it’s a mystery?
I weep for Bob Jones’ graduates.
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Sort of makes sense, of course. If you deny one aspect of science, the connection between the parts inevitably leads you to have to deny the others. And, eventually, reason itself.
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You know, just like you can't read a Bible directly, only perceive the photons reflected from the surface of its pages. Wait, that's not what they mean ... ;-)
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Throw them in jail for using their fairy-story version of reality to defraud millions of people? Absolutely.
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"Hate speech" is even worse. You can silence the entire world by labelling everything you don't want to hear as "hate speech". LET the hate-filled morons out themselves. Think of it as a public service they perform. (And as a bonus, it'll go a long way towards helping identify the people who really are committing crimes motivated by hatred.)
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(I haven't checked. Though I suppose it would make a good yardstick for what measure of trust to place in the accrediting body.)
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I am ashamed at the DoE....perhaps we can use this to erode their accreditation?
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Accreditation
THAT says something about TACC&S -- and the Department of Education.
Accredited by SAC&S in South Carolina (Bob Jones is located in Greenville SC): The Citadel; Greenville Technical College; the Medical University of South Carolina; Southern Wesleyan University; Spartanburg Methodist College; the University of South Carolina (all campuses) and a number of others.
Bob Jones marches to a very different drummer.
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i have a dynamo i'll be happy to hook up to various body parts and give them a feel. get a TENS for different fun.
can't SEE it?
uhm, hello? Lightning? they've never SEEN it?
can't HEAR it?
see above, thunder from the lightning...
can't SMELL it?
well, ozone is a byproduct, but still. smelling electricity might be reserved for certain animals, but then, ion exchange, eh?
can't TASTE it?
dimrods can't find a nine-volt battery to touch to their tongue?
they want to THINK it? well, i got some electroshock therapy we can set them up for.
my my my.
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If this is a representative sample, the entire board and staff of BJU should be in a Federal court for large-scale fraud.
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That mushroom cloud you see rising to your west was my brain, ten seconds ago.
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Very like Tehran.
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proof.
Re: proof.
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