Is the media trying to brainwash children into beleiving evolution with shows like "land before time"?
814542
Yah they are all out to fuck with your wacky religious beliefs.
849804
That's a kids T.V. show back in the day\nso no
865039
It brainwashes people!  I mean, why do you think they call it "programming"?!?  The corporations use television to crank out their propaganda which promotes the shallow materialism, run-away consumerism, and the need for instant gratification that already pervades our society.  And most of the "entertainment" on TV is merely brain-candy, laced with subtle messages, designed to provoke as little thought as possible.  It's sole purpose is to distract the sheep; to give them some sort of mind-numbing entertainment they can use to "tune out" so they don't pay attention to what's really going on!  Sad, eh?\nKILL YOUR TELEVISION!
323990
I can see how it could happen. There are artificial intelligence programs that do get smarter over time. But as for physical evolution... maybe in the future.
987620
hmmm it can be, i'm skeptical of a lot of those televised things, but i mean there are such things as demons and exorcists... it's in the Bible.
484661
well, that of course depends on what the parents themselves will allow if watching that influences the kids' behavior, because many kids WILL imitate what they see. if the parents want to better control all the ruckus that kids will most likey be demonstrating, then maybe WWE shouldn't be something that should be viewed. of course, WWE is not the only thing that kids might want to imitate.. there is also other shows, video games, daddy's beer induced rage...
1032997
Yes of course they are! They and the suckers they mislead. \nThe brilliance of the charlatans of our day can be seen in the postings of many of their followers to yahoo answers. These charlatans have convinced the ignorant that not only is their opinion just as good as the opinion of experts (people who have spent their entire life studying a subject) it's actually better, because it's not based on unapproachable 'egghead' stuff, but on a child-like faith in sweet Jesus that even an idiot can have.  \nCrooks like Stroebel and Hovind are lying to this crowd and they mostly know it too. \nJust one example of this is their treatment of radioactive dating. When creationists say that dinosaur bones have been found that radio-carbon date to a few thousand years old, this leads their readers to assume that the dinosaur bones are only a few thousand years old, but surely the creationist know that carbon14 has a half-life of only of 5730 years. Potassium-argon dating is used to date anything over a million years old, and using that dating method, dinosaur bones date from between 140 and 65 million years. The creationists must know a simple fact like that. They complain about the unreliability of radioactive dating methods but see no problem with setting their clocks to standards based on radioactive decay. It's extremely reliable as a method of setting chronology.\nThere is a vast array of intertwining evidence that supports evolution, and the extremely old age of the universe and of the earth. Fields as diverse as biology, chemistry, geology, geography, nuclear physics, and astronomy, have given humans a wonderfully coherent and comprehensive picture of the universe we live in, of what it used to be like, and of what it most probably will be like in the future. It is a picture based on theories with not just great, but astonishing, predictive power. \nCreation science proves nothing, does not explain existing evidence, and has astonishingly poor predictive power. This is why no one at all, except Christian Fundamentalists, believes in creationism. \nUnfortunately creationists sound impressive to the ignorant and the gullible, and the English speaking world has both these types in abundance.
1023268
I grew up without tv and am raising my child without it also.  She is not quite two and a half and is briliant!  The first time a tv was on in her presance she had no idea what to do with it.  She did not get the concept of sitting down and gazing into the box.  I myself get sad and disgusted any time I watch tv.  The shows are terrible, all of this reality tv crap scares me, but more than that it is the comercials!  My heart starts to flutter and I get so worked up seeing the structure of it all.  The systems that have been created to get into our brains to direct us this way or that, we have lost our free will.  What people are exposed to is what they adhear to.  What we watch on tv is what we become.  If we don't watch tv our world becomes alot bigger, and alot more creative.  I have a friend who is a preschool teacher and does not watch tv.  She has told me that the kids who watch tv play games that are repeating dialogs from tv shows, and the kids who don't watch tv have a world of there own, and that is a beautiful thing!
185618
First, I don't have much use for T.V. to begin with.  Life was meant to be lived, not watched.  I want to be involved with interaction, such as real-life relationships, or computer relationships.  Real people are involved.  Besides, when spring & summer are here, that is hiking, camping, backpacking, fishing, canoeing weather.  When fall & winter are here, add hunting.\n\nSecond, the program to which you are referring is filled with watered-down tripe posing as Christianity.  I'd rather be actually researching Yahweh God's Word, and applying it to real people, than watch a canned program that supposedly solves a problem with a bunch politically correct platitudes poorly (at best), disguised as "Christan" morality in an hour's time.  In my honest opinion, the show is not even Christian.  It portrays what Hollywood THINKS is "Christian" (and sadly, what alot of people with shallow knowledge of Scriptures think is "Christian" as well).\n\nSo to sum it up, I think the show is a grand waste of time, which would be better spent elsewhere.
540918
not really... programs like Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers have been very successful in teaching children all kinds of things... teachers often use television programs in the classrooms today to educate their children...
342180
yes, the media does teach gender behavior the media is one of the most powerful tools out there it warps and manipulate people by the masses. especially the young they set a standard for people to follow and they glorify it as its the best thing. best defense agaist this to be aware of what you watch.
756660
I was just about that ask what this is doing under "science" since I just noticed this category. It really should be under mythology or religion because it is more similar to that than anything else.\n\nThere was a South Park episode a few weeks ago, about how "9/11 conspiracy theories" were a conspiracy themselves because 25% of the population is retarded and needs to believe in ridiculous conspiracies. No offense to the mentally challenged. But it does seem like a lot of people out there need to believe in Loch Ness monster, Roswell UFOs, etc.
259170
I think the TV has made a lot of children paranoid and with good reason.  Recently, one girl was buried alive and one girl was abducted on video and later murdered.  These 2 stories were repeated many, many times.  \n\nYears ago, they didn't put these crimes on TV as much.  Maybe on the afternoon or evening news.  But now they cover the stories all day long on some TV channels for several days.  \n\nThere are some real wacko's out there for sure.  I'm and adult and even I'm a little paranoid.....)(
1011094
Yes, you should try it.  Call your group the Darwinian Witnesses\n\nDW for short.
899867
I know. Like evolution. It's a bunch of hooey! Thank goodness I had parents teach me the right way!
1172206
Boohbah...\nI was a preschool teacher and never ever in my life would I ever allow my students nor my own kids to watch a show with weird looking creatures that babble in baby talk with no meaning whatsoever in what they are doing or where they are going....I think the person who created this show was high on drugs and not all there....I would be so embarrassed to be the director, writer, camera man, make up artist, etc for this show. I cannot believe that they actually air this stupid thing...\nThe teletubbies are almost as equally scary...what's up with British children are they all that stupid? Are they all high on drugs...At least with Barney (though annoying at times) he gives the kids advice, structure and teaches them some sort of message like how to keep yourself clean, how to share, etc...on the other shows they have nothing but weird baby talk....For younger kids put in a Baby Einstein movie and its great for them...its good for ages newborn to two years old...then they have little Einsteins for the the toddler preschool age group...sheesh why would pbs allow this type of programing I have no idea
893090
i do accept that some people may believe in evolution, that is a credible theory, yet still, scientology? why would you believe in a book that an older man wrote back in the sixties about how aliens have affected our brains? do you also believe in every episode of the twilight zone.