Hollywood and Saturday Morning Cartoons Help Creationists

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So, evolutionists have finally figured out that those innocent Saturday morning cartoons and Hollywood movies about people and dinosaurs living together, somehow help the creationist cause.

Perhaps Professor Williams and PZ Myers have something new to boycott!

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How believing in Fred can help to spread creationism
by Laura Clark, Education Correspondent
Daily Mail (United Kingdom), p. 24.
July 4, 2009

Children as young as five should be taught about evolution to prevent them mistaking Barney the Dinosaur and Fred Flintstone for scientific fact, an academic has claimed.

James Williams, lecturer in education at Sussex University, says that letting pupils believe dinosaurs and humans lived together plays into the hands of creationists.

TV programmes such as The Flintstones and Barney & Friends, and films such as One Million Years BC, have created a popular culture cliche which is exploited by creationists, Professor Williams told the Times Educational Supplement.

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