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Related: About this forumChristian School That Gave Creationist Quiz Is Mercifully Euthanized
You might remember this little biology quiz that made the rounds of the interwebs earlier this year; we used it back in April with a Sundays With The Christianists post on a Christian biology textbook. As we mentioned at the time, the quiz is really real, and it originated from a private Christian school in South Carolina, Blue Ridge Christian Academy, which was using a DVD from creationist entrepreneur Ken Ham, the cheerful liar behind Kentuckys Creation Museum and Ark Encounter.
And now, heres your Nice Time: Due to insufficient fundraising, Blue Ridge Christian Academy will not be opening for the current school year. The publicity surrounding the quiz helped them raise some money, but God did not inspire enough donors to raise the $200,000 they needed.
Nice Time? Zoom, You might ask, how can you be so cynical and jaded and living up the ass of the establishment? Haha, yes, we are all of those things! But we are also more than a little bit happy that, for now at least, children in one town wont be given a quiz with this second page:
Read more at http://wonkette.com/527170/nice-time-christian-school-that-gave-creationist-quiz-is-mercifully-euthanized
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n2doc
Sep 2013
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Blue Owl
(54,984 posts)1. Extra Credit Question: Could God make a rock so big even he couldn't lift it?
warrant46
(2,205 posts)3. Yikes !