Physicist Lawrence Krauss: Teaching Creationism Is ‘Child Abuse’
Krauss referenced Senator Marco Rubio’s recent refusal to say how old the earth is.
“If you think about that, somehow saying that, well, anything goes, we shouldn’t offend religious beliefs by requiring kids to know – to understand reality; that’s child abuse,” he said. “And if you think about it, teaching kids – or allowing the notion that the earth is 6,000 years old to be promulgated in schools is like teaching kids that the distance across the United States is 17 feet. That’s how big an error it is.”
Krauss added the “purpose of education is not to validate ignorance, but to overcome it.”
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