It is a matter of urgency -- there are perhaps three or four Godly Australians alive, and they all live in a place called "Queensland". These good people are under fire for teaching Biblical truths to children: their critics are secular Australians, i.e., boozing, kangaroo-marrying louts. Outrageous!
Of course DNA wasn't invented then ... in fact, I'm not entirely sure it has been invented at all! -- see how many results are returned when searching for "deoxyribonucleic acid" in an online KJV 1611.
Queensland students taught humans coexisted with dinosaurs
PRIMARY school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together and that there's fossil evidence to prove it.
Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking religious instruction classes despite education experts saying Creationism and attempts to convert children to Christianity have no place in state schools.
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A parent of a Year 5 student on the Sunshine Coast said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA.
"The scripture teacher told the class that all people were descended from Adam and Eve," he said.
"'My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that 'wouldn't they all be inbred'?
"But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."
After the parent complained, the girl spent the rest of the year's classes in the library.
PRIMARY school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together and that there's fossil evidence to prove it.
Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking religious instruction classes despite education experts saying Creationism and attempts to convert children to Christianity have no place in state schools.
[...]
A parent of a Year 5 student on the Sunshine Coast said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA.
"The scripture teacher told the class that all people were descended from Adam and Eve," he said.
"'My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that 'wouldn't they all be inbred'?
"But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."
After the parent complained, the girl spent the rest of the year's classes in the library.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
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