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Thanks, Ken, Another Brainwashed Child!

Well, another satisfied customer of the Answers in Genesis propaganda wagon, dedicated to an unrelenting assault upon science until there are no educated, critical thinkers left to criticize the drivel that daily emanates from that mad sect. 


If the link doesn't work, do let me know, but in short this is a screenshot of a comment posted on Ken Ham's page, provided to me by Daniel Jonas (thanks for keeping me informed on AiG antics). The woman credits Ham for the following statement made by her child. In church, he noted that no one in the child's program, when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, wanted to be a scientist. "Is it because they are mostly liars?" the child asked.

Thanks,  Ken, for discrediting the validity of ALL science in your quest to discredit the good science of evolution. Hopefully the child will come to some semblance of reason, but childhood indoctrination is a hard thing to break.

Oh, and one more thing. The woman in question doesn't blame Ham for this bizarre moment, she THANKS him! Welcome to Wonderland, everyone.

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