{"id":2814,"date":"2015-09-01T18:22:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:52:20","slug":"links-and-comments-religion-and-education-religions-around-the-world-degrasse-tyson-on-the-history-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/09\/01\/links-and-comments-religion-and-education-religions-around-the-world-degrasse-tyson-on-the-history-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Comments: Religion and Education; Religions around the world; deGrasse Tyson on the history of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: latest example of how religious groups reject education, because, of course: <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/nyc-probe-secular-education-jewish-schools-33264849\">NYC to Probe Secular Education at Jewish Schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere was no science, no geography and no math past multiplication at the ultra-Orthodox Jewish school Chaim Weber attended. And the only reason he ever heard of the American Revolution was when a seventh-grade teacher introduced it as &#8220;story time.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>cf. Boko Haram, and any number of Christian colleges who swear fealty to the Bible, that compilation of Iron Age texts, ahead of any later understanding or acceptance of reality.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating map by Business Insider about how the major religions have spread across the world, over the past millennia:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/businessinsider\/videos\/10152949760834071\/\">This animated map shows how religion spread across the world.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Virtually all peoples&#8217; religious convictions are based on where they were born and bred. It&#8217;s about culture and tradition; not about reality.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Neil deGrasse Tyson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=swue9Dlz6HE\">Explains the universe in 8 minutes<\/a>. (Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2015\/07\/how_old_is_life_on_earth_the_minutephysics_team_take_you_from_the_big_bang.html\">via<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: latest example of how religious groups reject education, because, of course: NYC to Probe Secular Education at Jewish Schools. There was no science, no geography and no math past multiplication at the ultra-Orthodox Jewish school Chaim Weber attended. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/09\/01\/links-and-comments-religion-and-education-religions-around-the-world-degrasse-tyson-on-the-history-of-the-universe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-resistance","category-religion","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}