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  • 2013-04-26 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This a 4th Grade Science Quiz? (en)
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  • An image purportedly showing a 4th Grade Science Quiz hit the Internet in April 2013, showing a classroom test entitled Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel and consisting of several true/false and short-answer questions about dinosaurs and the Bible, which a student had all answered correctly in accordance with religious Young Earth creationism (rather than scientific) principles: The title of the quiz was the same as that of a DVD produced by the group Answers in Genesis and hewed closely to the material presented therein, including the admonition that If someone tells you the earth is millions of years old, what should be your reply? 'Were you there?' and the reference to the Bible as The History Book of the Universe. The image was of the purported quiz publicized in a post to Reddit's r/atheism forum, made by a user who maintained that it was a real quiz given at a private religious school in South Carolina, and that he was shown the quiz by the student's parent and took a picture of it with his iPhone. He declined to identify the school, stating that I am not publicizing it since it is a small school and I don't want any publicity that might reflect badly on the kid and I don't want the kid to get in trouble, so I am keeping that under my hat until June when school is over, although he did allow that the school was North of Greer, SC. A few days after the Reddit posting, a reader wrote to us and stated that the quiz displayed above belonged to his 10-year-old daughter, saying: He indicated that he wouldn't disclose the name of the school until the end of the current school year in June, but he did forward us an image of the second page of the quiz: We noted that there is a school, Blue Ridge Christian Academy, that meets all of the criteria described above: a private Christian Academy which is both in the Greenville area of South Carolina and north of Greer, which offers science lessons [that] are creation-based, and which includes Latin in its fourth-grade curriculum. Blue Ridge didn't respond to our inquiry, but Ken Ham and Mark Looy of Answers in Genesis (AiG) confirmed in the AiG blog that the quiz did indeed originate with that school: The Blue Ridge Christian Academy has since closed due to a lack of funding. (en)
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