Next chapter needs to be: "Fucking magnets, how do they work?"
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There are more pixels than the neurons in the writer's brain
This feels like a projection of their deity. Did they want to conflate the mystery of their god to the mystery of electricity? I guess I'm a theist now...
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This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it's mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.
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And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
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I have seen electric, it’s blue and I have even felt it, it hurts. Also I know where it comes from, it comes from the walls, there’s an electric sockets for it.
Boom! Science, bitch! drops mic
This just in, no one has ever seen lightning, and if you say you have, we’ll have to burn you at the stake to protect the children.
Tide comes in and tide goes out. You can't explain that.
Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a 'normal' university, the author isn't completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.
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Are they dense?? Electricity comes from the power outlet. Everyone knows that
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Replace 'electricity' with 'wind' and/or 'moving air' and/or 'breath', and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought 'spirit' was.
My Catholic school is more grounded to reality than this.
Grounded? That sounds like electricity talk, or should I say WITCHCRAFT?!
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Found a site with some more fun excerpts:
https://1900hotdog.com/2020/10/learning-day-science-4-for-christian-schools/
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When was this written? Also, it's not entirely untrue to say that we know what electromagnetic force does, but not what causes it. They say it's a 'fundamental force', which is basically way of saying we can't further reduce it to explain in terms of other stuff. We don't know what any of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces) really are - we can only describe their effects on the world with maths ('what they do')
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