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Science Documentaries for Youngsters?

Posted by Soulskill on from the billions-and-billions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My 7-year-old daughter is asking some interesting questions, such as, 'How did everything get created?' I've explained, in general terms, our family's non-religious views on the subject of creation and the Big Bang. I'd like to find some documentary videos geared to this age level that may explain better these concepts and theories. I've found a few PBS specials online - Stephen Hawking stuff - but they seem to be geared for young adults and older. Does anyone have recommended titles that might be better geared to children of this age bracket?"

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  1. Re:Look at PBS again. by tompaulco · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So religion is to be feared and mocked, but it's still okay to teach kids that school buses can magically fly around the universe. Check.

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  2. is slashdot secular? by zen-theorist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    would the response be as muted if the OP had asked ".... I've explained, in general terms, our family's Judeo-Christian/Islamic views on the subject of creation ...." ?

  3. Start with skepticism by thethibs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can't teach a kid science unless you also teach him or her a properly disrespectful attitude toward authority—a touch of skepticism.

    I'd suggest starting with "Help! Mom! There are Liberals under my bed!" by Katherine DeBrecht.

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  4. Intellectual Sloth & Subhuman Cruelty by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    There is no inspiration in replacing "We don't know yet" with "God did it." Replacing one unknown (the universe's beginning) with another unknown (supernatural deity) is intellectual sloth.

    Intellectual sloth is making the assumption that "God did it" and "We don't know [how] yet" are mutually incompatible propositions.

    Or even the more simplistic assumption, "God exists", ergo "God did it", but that's probably too subtle a point to be introducing on Slashdot.

    Anyway, my reason for posting my original remarks had nothing to do with questions of rigor, but rather with the frankly subhuman cruelty of burdening a young, fragile, innocent creature with such a manifestly horrible, nihilistic, suicidal outlook on life.

    Within the next decade, expect this poor girl to show up in the local emergency room with slashed wrists.

    And no, I'm not being facetious.