now that's just cruel
Jul. 1st, 2009 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonOkay, I'm all for helping kids develop rational thinking abilities, but this bit from a Boing-Boing article about a summer camp for kids run by Richard Dawkins just made me sad:
"Camp-goers aged eight to 17 will also be taught how to disprove phenomena such as crop circles and telepathy. In the Invisible Unicorn Challenge, any child who can prove that unicorns do not exist will win a £10 note"
Encouraging rational thought = good. Killing children's imaginations = bad. It's people like Dawkins who give the rest of us to whom religion is irrelevant a very bad name, I suppose because clearly it is not irrelevant to him. He is a true atheist. I'm just not religious.
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"Camp-goers aged eight to 17 will also be taught how to disprove phenomena such as crop circles and telepathy. In the Invisible Unicorn Challenge, any child who can prove that unicorns do not exist will win a £10 note"
Encouraging rational thought = good. Killing children's imaginations = bad. It's people like Dawkins who give the rest of us to whom religion is irrelevant a very bad name, I suppose because clearly it is not irrelevant to him. He is a true atheist. I'm just not religious.
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