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This tract is not a real world tract is the main problem in my opinion.
Since when is Jack Chick concerned with depicting reality?
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You have to wonder if they really believe that stuff themselves or if they know it's an idiotic caricature but the end justifies the means.
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Your right, why should they fail a student when they get things wrong using bad facts and false statements, it should be the effort that counts, I mean, this is only college, not kindergarten where they actually require you to get your facts straight.
Originally Posted by ikester7579
Actually there's a few things wrong with that tract.
1) In most schools or colleges the teacher and students would have attacked the poor guy until he would have left the class.
2) Most teachers today would have sent him to the deans office for pushing religious beliefs.
3) The teacher would not have given up so easy.
4) The students would have mocked him relentlessly.
5) He may have been suspended or expelled(which has already happened in some schools).
6) The teacher would have made sure to fail the student regardless of how good his work was.
7) etc...
This tract is not a real world tract is the main problem in my opinion.
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How does that justify "in MOST schools and colleges". ikester you sould make your claim more carefully. The schools and colleges I went to surely isn't like this.
Actually there's a few things wrong with that tract.
I will let others deal with your post, but what is is important, is what is right. and what is right, is that chick and hovind are full of bull excrement.
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Notice that neither of those articles deal with students being punished for stating their religious beliefs in class. In fact, in the first example it seems like they wanted to have a creationist viewpoint in the class.
Yep, Big Daddy's a classic. There's a pretty amusing parody of it floating around the web called Who's Your Daddy?.
Hmm. That link was interesting until it started ragging on the Bible. The thing is, those apparent contradictions (in the Bible) probably don't matter. Is there a single atheist present that would sign up for Christianity if every one of them were resolved to their satisfaction? I doubt it.
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Hmm. That link was interesting until it started ragging on the Bible. The thing is, those apparent contradictions (in the Bible) probably don't matter. Is there a single atheist present that would sign up for Christianity if every one of them were resolved to their satisfaction? I doubt it.
if there are mistruths, treat them as irony.
to be honest I agree with you. it was good until later on in the article where the author got a bit ahead of himself and (potentially?) made the same mistake as those he was ridiculing.
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