If we don’t know what electricity is or where it comes from… How do we make all those wires splurge a bunch of it into your church’s organ where Mrs Abernathy plays the same two tunes every Sunday, eh?
The electrician was divinely inspired by God, obviously
The techpriests rigged it up after uttering a prayer to the Omnissiah
Priest: “Dear congregation, we have gathered here today to honor our Lord and Savior. Today’s prayer is read by the 9 year old Kevin”
Kevin: “BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOOD!”
Priest: “And skulls for the skull throne, Kevin. Very good. Thank you!”
Necessarily. It’s the same dude that had already wired up the bulbs when God said “Let there be light” :D
"Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by."
But we know wind is caused by a temperature/pressure difference, and displacement through the motion of other, material matter. Where did the force of electricity come from? What creates more of it? Especially considering neurons in life
Now this “pressure” you speak of. Is it in the room with us now?
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I think this actually explains electricity pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEPnKYX5C0
I half expected this to link to a video for the song The Electric Boogie. This was better.
Also, the hand movements slay me!
So this is the shit that evangelicals want taught in schools?
It makes sense, you need your sheep to remain dumb if you want them to believe and do dumb shit
I’m sure some people have felt electricity.
Spoiler: that shit can hurt
Yep. And it was no fun, I can tell you. But I definitely felt it!
Your suspicions are confirmed. I have indeed worn wool socks and touched a metal item.
As a kid I one shoved dough hooks into an extension cord. Fun times!
Thank you for your service. 🫡
Dumbasses never heard of lightning?
Next week on Stupid Shit Evangelicals Actually Believe: “Men have one fewer rib than women, because Space Dad used one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve. This cannot be disproven because there is no way to see inside a human body.”
Checkmate, atheists!
nobody has ever seen, heard or felt it
I’ve done all of those things. Seen lightning bolts and heard their thunder, have heard the hum of transformers or the whine of the lines themselves and arcing bolts of electricity from broken ones or Tesla coils. I’ve been electrocuted both from static electricity, and once when I was cleaning lint out from behind my washing machine.
You can see it. You can hear it. And you definitely can feel it. It fuckinf hurts!
…Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…
You know what you can’t see, hear and feel? God.
That’s interestingly, the point
Someone needs to show whoever wrote this lightning and tesla coils
TV comes on, TV goes off. You can’t explain that.
It’s the effing dog, sitting on the remote
“The tides go in, the tides go out. You can’t explain that.”
Lol, that was my first thought also
At first I had a lot of questions, but the Bible verse at the end cleared them all up.
Yeah, I’m wondering what subject this “textbook” was written for.
This is a real textbook by Bob Jones University for home-schooling creationists. It’s just called “Science 4” and can be found on Amazon.
Good grief.
I really want to know the title of this book
It’s a “Science” textbook for Christian schools (although probably more often used in Christian home-schools) published by Bob Jones University. I don’t remember exactly what grade it’s for, although 2nd or 3rd seems about right. I’m only remembering bits about it from seeing this posted elsewhere online. Although, I was one of those home-schooled children of Christian parents and had the 2nd edition of this textbook around 25 years ago when I was in that grade. IIRC it had improved a bit by then, but it was still similarly shallow and had just as much religion sprinkled throughout.
Although, I was one of those home-schooled children of Christian parents<
In my country we do not have home schools, so I am really curious and hope you don’t mind the question: How is your education history - when did you get in touch with real science, what did you think about it and did home schooling have an influence on the career you chose?
Sure! Honestly, my home-schooling was better than most, my Mom was a state-licensed school teacher who taught in private schools, and when I was in highschool she became a public school teacher. I was homeschooled for every year except kindergarten, and was strongly encouraged to go to Bob Jones University for university - which I did for 3 years, before dropping out and never finishing. Parts of my education were great, math, language, and any subject that didn’t involve evolution or history that couldn’t be considered as disagreeing with the Bible were generally good. In high-school, our parents got busy, and we used video classes, also from Bob Jones University taught by some of the school’s professors, still didn’t learn about the facts of evolution, or climate change, or history prior to ~6000 B.C.E. but at least the physics and biology we got still taught things like biological taxonomy, and basic atomic theory.
The most we talked about evolutionary biology was to note that it was a thing that most people believed, but that God made the world in 6 days, but that scientists eyes were blinded by wanting to not be accountable to a creator, so they invented evolution to poorly explain how we got here. And since God made the world, he wouldn’t let it be destroyed, so there’s no way human-caused climate change could be real.
It wasn’t until after I had been out of university for a couple of years that I started to come around on climate change (in part due to a Veritasium video on YouTube debunking a lot of the claims I had been told) and I started to realize how poor my education had been. I do think being home-schooled helped me learn how to teach myself, and I really do enjoy learning - especially about the topics that were kept from me.
As far as the career, I was heavily encouraged to do something that was in some kind of “Christian ministry.” I dropped out of university partly over disagreements about that. So yeah, had I gone to proper school, it’s likely my career would have gone in a different direction.
Thank you! I never heard the argument that human-caused climate change cannot be real, cause God wouldn’t let the world be destroyed. I wonder if they also don’t believe in the power of nuclear weapons for this reason. But good to hear you still got physics - the post about electricity made me wonder if they just skip topics like atoms/electrons. Cool that you are so open-minded to question the things you learned so many years later!
🏆 Wholesomeness award. May your story serve as inspiration for others. To follow in your footsteps, to put in the effort of seeking the education that was denied, to dedicate life to learning and growing as a person and to look at the past with wisdom instead of bitterness.
The fuck? I was 100% this was satire
You forgot to put “University” in quotes. Any place that produced or endorses such a book should geht their credentials checked and possibly removed.
The sad part is: They are accredited and that won’t change any time soon.
