Christian 'Science' on Electricity

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This passage I'm reading can be viewed on Pharyngula's Scienceblog. But just google it for more entertainment!

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[samthedrums]

TPR, you havn't changed a bit. Good to see you!

I expect you have seen the Dawkins documentary and book The God Delusion.

[tpr007]

@samthedrums Oh yes, I have the book of course! In fact, I'm off to see a talk by Dawkins in October for his new book, which I also blogged about on my website. There's also a cool iPad app for it, which gadgetlovers like us would appreciate!

[tpr007]

I don't know why the sound is out of sync :(

[warren52nz]

@biblicalauthenticity Take two pins, one in each hand and push them into an electrical outlet and shortly after that you can ask God what electricity is.

8^)

[dan91709]

@biblicalauthenticity Hum. Let's get this straight. You believe that there was virgin male human sacrifice thousands of years ago that allows your "all-loving" god not to torture you forever - and you occasionally ritually drink the (symbolic) blood of this victim (communion) with a pretty copy of the instrument of torture and murder hanging over your head (the cross)?

Do you believe morality comes from a biblical genocidal child-killing monster that conditionally advocates slavery and incest?

[Chrisindapurplehouse]

And obviously within our atom there is a small electric charge it's what keeps them together out protons are bound to our neutrons and attracted and orbiting around is a single electron and these kids will be ignorant to even this most basic of knowledge the structure of an atom

[Chrisindapurplehouse]

OMG this is like bullshit they believed in the dark age electricity can be measured in electrical potential ie volts it is a very complex subject but basically electrons which carry a negatively charged particle are attracted to protons a positively charged particle and when these two get together thats an electrical charge thats it in its basic form

[Chrisindapurplehouse]

No wonder americans are so stupid if this is what their education system is like

[dan91709]

@IfinduIgetu Yep.

[dan91709]

People from outside the US (especially the UK) don't understand that christian textbooks like the one quoted in this video perform a valuable public service. They ensure that there'll always be someone to do work that third-world immigrants don't want to. :-)

Christians - what would smarter people do without them?

[dan91709]

@IfinduIgetu See what I mean? :-)

[IfinduIgetu]

haha Im christian and I believe that science is truth your calling me stupid.

[IfinduIgetu]

@dan91709 fuck off

[tutsuro]

The first bit about how electricity maybe defined functionally, by 'what it does', might be sound..but the rest of it. Man, things like this make me understand why some of you atheists hate religion so much.