A man has shamed his daughter's school for "brainwashing" its students into believing dinosaurs never existed. He explained how his daughter attends a private school in Texas, America, which specialises in special education.
However, he has been left disgusted after reviewing the homework assignment she brought home from school. It provides 'statements' and 'responses' to questions they could later be asked on a pop quiz in class, which could count toward her end-of-year grade.
He said on Reddit: "My daughter has a project at her private school. She has a learning disability and I'm trying new things."
One of its 'statements' reads: "Scientists claim that dinosaurs lived over 2,000 million years ago."
Providing the 'answer' for students to learn underneath, its response adds: "Everything you read isn't true.
"The Bible is the only book that is completely true. If you read the Bible and study its history, you will see that the world can't be that old.
"The Bible tells us that God created the world about 6,000 years ago, not millions of years ago."
The homework sheet goes on to claim scientists "don't know everything" and make lots of mistakes - so therefore can't be trusted.
Another one of its 'statements' reads: "Scientists believe animals today evolved and have adaptations from dinosaurs."
Its response adds: "Many people do not want to believe that God created everything. They want to believe that everything happened by chance.
"They want to believe that, somehow, things just started to exist without God and formed into all the amazing and wonderful creatures we have today.
"Many scientists say things existed millions of years ago because they think that it would have taken a long, long time even millions of years for nothing to turn into something amazing, such as a dinosaur.
"But we know that not even in millions of years can change something into something else without God creating it.
"Bible reference: John 1:3 'All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made'."
When sharing the school project online, he added: "I didn't think it [the school] would be this bad. The negatives of living in rural Texas."
Sharing his outrage, one user said: "You pay good money for that level of wilful ignorance."
Another user added: "I graduated high school with a kid who didn’t believe in dinosaurs or evolution.
"I could not wrap my head around his views. I thought he was the only one like that and then I got older and realised the world is filled with crazies."
A third user said: "You are helping fund this. Yes, this is horrifying. You paying for it is equally as horrifying."
One more user added: "I’m not sure how much this has to do with living in rural Texas versus attending that particular private school.
"Many private schools have their own agendas regardless of what state they are in or where they are."
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