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What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science?

Submitted by q00u on December 22, 2007 - 4:18am.

Re:4 year olds and science
by adisakp (705706)

Son... this is the honest truth about the universe:

The universe was created by an all-powerful all-knowing being who came down to us in the form of a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Your little friends might laugh at you when you tell them, but trust me... pretty much all us grown-ups actually believe this is true.

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I had been looking for the

Submitted by q00u on December 22, 2007 - 4:19am.

I had been looking for the original source of this quote forever, and when I finally found it (on Slashdot of all places!) I knew I had to post it here.

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Great post

Submitted by veridicus on December 22, 2007 - 1:59pm.

That's an awesome post! Some of the responses to it are pretty interesting as well. Thanks!

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One of the first reposts of

Submitted by q00u on December 23, 2007 - 2:33am.

One of the first reposts of this I saw made it look like the definition of Christianity, and appended "Makes perfect sense!" (and omitted the opening and closing paragraphs).

One of the responses to that one was:

Atheism: The belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason whatsoever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs. Makes perfect sense!

Not quite as witty as the Christianity post, but still made me smile. ^_^

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