Just stumbled upon this accidentally.

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100324

Favorite bit:

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The survey found, much to Ham's surprise, a "Sunday School syndrome," indicating children who faithfully attend Bible classes in their church over the years actually are more likely to question the authority of Scripture.

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And yet, the fact that the bible is obviously not holding up under scrutiny doesn't give them a clue. Usually I admire tenacity, but this is ridiculous. Instead of saying, "Well, maybe this religion stuff IS stupid", the response is..."What can we do better to bring the young-uns back in!!!"

To quote the bible right back atcha..."Let my people go."



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This just shows it's gotten to a point where even kids know there's something up here.

Wait......we have to WHAT!? <=InterraBANG!

There is sooo much win in this article. I'll start with this gem:

"Ham who believes in a literal six-day creation that happened 6,000 to 10,000 years ago says the church opened a door for the exodus of youth, beginning in the 19th century, when it began teaching that "the age of the Earth is not an issue as long as you trust in Jesus and believe in the resurrection and the Gospel accounts."

So Mr. Ham, who was seen on Bill Mahr's Religulous as the guy who ran the Creationist's Museum that had a Triceradon with a horse sadle on it. Much win there.

"What you see in the Bible is that when there is compromise in one generation, and it's not dealt with, you usually notice it to a greater extent in the next generation. In previous generations, young people could live with this inconsistency, but with an increasingly secular and atheistic public education system where some 90 percent of church-going youth are trained today's youth find it hard to see a connection between what they are taught in church and what they learn at school. Because of the way in which they've been educated, teens come to believe that what they are taught in school is reality, but the church teaches stories and morality and relationship. Bible teaching is not real in the sense of real history."

Much win.

"Now, as parents or leaders tell youth they can continue to believe in evolution, millions of years, young people are starting to see, 'Well, I can then believe what I'm taught at school but school has nothing to do with God.' The key issue is that this doubt about the Bible's account of origins causes youth to doubt the authority of Scripture."

Wow holy shit you would think that an atheist was speaking. We have so won this and this loon is trying to plug his silly psuedoscience. If only there were no seperation of the church and our education system.

"Helping young people make sense of reports such as the claim last month of the discovery of a "missing link" proving Darwin's theory of evolution is Ham's specialty."

Helping=Deceiving Make Sense of=on how to think about the Specialty=only Bullshit story that he is any good at selling.

"The reviewers said we don't know this is a missing link, and they asked the people who wrote [the newspaper reports] to tone it down, and yet we have this media hype claiming this is it, this is the missing link."

He is so desperate.

Wow. That article didn't even mention the scores of young people who leave the church after getting molested by clergy...

^^^^^^Win! Because you're the first one to think of it!

"The survey found, much to Ham's surprise, a "Sunday School syndrome," indicating children who faithfully attend Bible classes in their church over the years actually are more likely to question the authority of Scripture. "

So true. I wasn't raised in a religious household, if anything, my parents just didn't care about religion. However, I always wondered what church was all about and was intrigued by the rituals. In high school, I fell in with a group of evangelicals who managed to get me "saved." (One girl saw that I was reading an Anne Rice book and told me to be careful. I do know the difference between fiction and reality, thank you very much.)

For nearly five years I went to church and Sunday School faithfully. Even when I got a summer job in Vegas, I sought out a good Baptist church to go to. Eventually I came to my senses. The more I learned about what they were trying to teach, the less it made sense to me.