I believe it, so it must be true...

If you have ever debated a creationist or someone who believes in intelligent design (same thing really) then this amusing little cartoon animation will be totally familiar to you, the only common fallacy they missed was the "teach the controversy" one, all the others are present and correct.



In a similar vein here is another example of an epic fail, Christian parents from the USA preventing their child going on a field trip with school because of their own perverted adherence to Iron age myths, poor kid.

Here (below) is their rationale for stultifying this child's education, repeated in case you're finding it difficult to read their hand-writing.

“Note: Just to let you it is not that we don’t believe in things like that, it is just misleading when you talk about it being billions of years old, when we all know that the world is only about 6,000 years old. So why would I pay so that you can misslead my children, your world is just a revolving(?), ours has a start and an end. God created the world. He created animals and man all in the same week. It was also Adam who named all the animals, they will do the essay ‘Rock and Minerals’ but it might not be 5 pages long, and about billions of years, it will be according to the Bible.”

I find it strangely inconsistent that Christians like this (generally) object to abortion with the argument that all clumps of fertilised cells belong to God and aren't the Mother's "property" to do with what she will. But then as soon as that child is born it suddenly reverts back to the status of property to be indoctrinated, moulded and shaped into whatever bizarre flavour of whichever sect of the particular branch of Abrahamic faith the parents happen to have been  indoctrinated into themselves, go figure?