"Ok, so here's the theme for this one: you're in the 1890s and you've just seen your first lightbulb. All you know is it runs on electricity instead of oil, and that some fucking idiot caught some electricity in a jar during a lightning storm. Go!"
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In 1890 they had telegraph lines between continents for about 40 years.
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I swear I saw somewhere Texas schools gives out these books
When I went to a (private) Christian school our science book was called Undertstanding God's World and it was pretty wacky. I think I remember it saying dinosaurs and humans lived alongside each other. I also remember being taught plate tectonics was a lie?
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This feels like a projection of their deity. Did they want to conflate the mystery of their god to the mystery of electricity? I guess I'm a theist now...
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And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
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This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it's mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.
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There are more pixels than the neurons in the writer's brain
Replace 'electricity' with 'wind' and/or 'moving air' and/or 'breath', and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought 'spirit' was.
Tide comes in and tide goes out. You can't explain that.
Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a 'normal' university, the author isn't completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.
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Are they dense?? Electricity comes from the power outlet. Everyone knows that
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De-energize an electrical panel, remove the panel covers, energize it and let them fuck around and find out.
Found a site with some more fun excerpts:
https://1900hotdog.com/2020/10/learning-day-science-4-for-christian-schools/
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So where does that put people who have been electrified? Did they simply die of terror because they thought they had grasped a live wire?
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