Young earth creationist Ken Ham: Teaching kids science is ‘intellectual child abuse’

Christian fundamentalist, young Earth creationist, and reality-denying Ken Ham said in a recent Facebook post that teaching kids science amounts to “intellectual child abuse.”

“Intellectual child abuse: when kids are taught they’re just animals in an evolutionary process. This morning I taught kids the creation/gospel message,” Ham wrote. “The young people today in Alabama learned they’re not made in the image of an ape — they’re created in the image of God.”

Ham, who is president of Answers in Genesis and a Creationist minister that operates the Creation Museum, included an image of him speaking to “1,000 kids grades K-6” about Creationism.

Patheos points out the irony of Ham’s stance on indoctrinating children by forcing them to believe they’re “inherently flawed and deserving of ever-lasting torture,” however science is “abusive to reference the facts of humanity’s evolutionary history.”

From Patheos:

In his mind, it’s okay to teach kids that the only escape from burning in hellfire for all of eternity is to accept a set of rules and ideas without question, and that this escape is a manifestation of the most perfect love mankind can aspire to.

But real science?! We can’t let that happen now, can we?