Just when you thought we'd entered the age of literacy ...

[unixronin]

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.

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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.)

Comments

[ithildae]

I have little use for these cockroaches of ignorance. The are so engrossed in their dark ages suppositions and conclusions that they scurry from the light of truth, lurking on the boundary of the unknown and clinging to the shadows of their willful ignorance. They cannot defend their positions, all they can do is shout them louder and with more conviction hoping someone will listen.

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.