How believing in Fred Flintstone 'can help to spread creationism'

 

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Last updated at 1:41 AM on 04th July 2009

 

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Children as young as five should be taught about evolution to prevent them mistaking Barney the Dinosaur and Fred Flintstone for scientific fact, an academic has claimed.

James Williams, lecturer in education at Sussex University, says that letting pupils believe dinosaurs and humans lived together plays into the hands of creationists.

 

The Flintstone: The TV caveman and his dinosaur friends could give children the wrong idea about evolution

 

 

 

TV programmes such as The Flintstones and Barney & Friends, and films such as One Million Years BC, have created a popular culture cliche which is exploited by creationists, Professor Williams told the Times Educational Supplement.

 

He warned that creationists - who claim that God created the world and all its animals in six days - go to great lengths to influence children with comics and videos that mix scientific misconceptions with proper science.

He cited creationist literature which contained images of dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden.

 

Barney and Friends: An education expert said believing humans and dinosaurs lived together is a distortion of science

 

 

 

He said: 'This wilful distortion of real science in favour of pseudoscience is nothing less than intellectual abuse.'

Creationists have a right to publish their views, he added, but 'the science education community must respond by introducing evolution and the reality of how life developed'.

wow. just...wow.

Is this some sort of crazy joke, or just crazy political correctness?

..weird..:uhoh:

THE CREATIONISTS...

 

THEY'RE OUT TO GET US AND OUR CHILDREN!!!! :stunned:

 

Any kid who thinks men lived with dinosaurs in this day and age is probably too stupid to count anyway. I learned about evolution for the first time by asking my dad to explain the process of evolution in Pokemon, so these people need to shush and go do some real research.

That's so freaking stupid.

 

Barney and the Fintstones are only kids shows. Fantasy.

 

If you grow up and still believe that humans and dinosaurs coexisted at the same time, then you must be really retarded.

Any kid who thinks men lived with dinosaurs in this day and age is probably too stupid to count anyway.

 

I once saw in tv that there was a creationist museum in the U.S. and the creators spent millions and millions of dollars on making "real-scale" dinosours together with human images to show how they thought it was the beggining of life when it was created. And they were even trying to use "scientific" arguments to show how could Noah's ark carry dinosaurs, which could be only possible if the eggs were carried. It was soo lame. :\ As if they were trying to ridicule hundreds and hundreds of advance in science and understanding of life on earth, making this stupid museum.

This. is. stupid.