Posted on 03/06/2010 4:00:10 PM PST by metmom
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons.
Mule's precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she watched Elizabeth's excitement turn to confusion when they reached the evolution section of the book from Apologia Educational Ministries, which disputed Charles Darwin's theory.
"I thought she was going to have a coronary," Mule said of her daughter, who is now 16 and taking college courses in Houston. "She's like, 'This is not true!"'
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It’s funny how the science fetishists around the web like to give all the credit to “science” for the millions of things that engineers or laymen invented or developed or stumbled upon accidentally.
Oh, I guess that is slang for creation-evolution.
Nope, you’re right, they usually get pretty rowdy. I usually don’t go in for rowdy.
With as much fraud and debunked hypotheses as exists in evolution, the entire thing would have been trashed years ago had it been any other discipline in science.
Well maybe not, seeing how science has been corrupted by ideological agendas over the years.
I have my degree in meteorology, mr. mm is an engineer, my daughter is physics major, son in engineering, and youngest daughter looking at bio, chem, or physics (hasn’t decided which branch yet)
All in the honors programs in their respective colleges.
I did McD’s to put myself through college BEFORE I became a Christian and creationist, although even in my most atheistic/agnostic days, I still had a hard time believing that the variety and complexity of life didn’t have God behind it.
That was sarcastically repeating the FRevo arguments I’ve encountered over the years here.
Crevo is shorthand for creation/evolution.
I guess you have to be on those threads to know that. Sorry.
After seeing what’s happened in the AGW arena, it’s not likely that they would have been trashed.
Science today is beyond corrupted by grant money, peer review, and *consensus*.
My Bad!
Sorry, I didn’t realize the sarcasm.
I’m very strong on my kids being able to defend their beliefs, because once they get into higher ed classes, especially in the biological sciences, they can get turned into pretzels.
People on FR often talk about getting attacked on politics in college classes - just wait until you get into the hands of a atheist professor who is convinced that creationists are all that’s wrong with the world. Arghhh.
You know, there really isn’t anything wrong with working at McDonalds. It is honest work. More honorable than prostitution or contract killing.
If you do well and chose to, you could work your way up through the corporate structure.
Not a problem. :)
You know, I keep telling my kids that what’s really important is that they be able to support themselves and provide an honest living for their family.
Everything else is incidental.
We have an extensive section on evolution science on our Christian site:
www.faithfacts.org
"We're not religious home-schoolers, and there's somewhat of a feeling of being outnumbered," said Perry, who has home-schooled three of her four children after removing her oldest child from a public school because of a health condition.
Perry said she cobbled together her own curriculum after some mainstream publishers told her they would not sell directly to home-schooling parents.
Wendy Womack, another Lexington home-school mother, said the only scientifically credible curriculum she's found is from the Maryland-based Calvert School, which has been selling study-at-home materials for more than 100 years.
It's not Christian publishers fault that there's no curriculum out there. The parents need to complain to the secular publishers who refuse to sell to homeschoolers.
THAT'S who their beef should be with.
Actually, I know someone working at McDonalds, and he is doing the best of all our friends right now.
He was picked up for his hard work by management and they trained him to repair equipment.
That's cuz they love 'critical' thinkers; critical of reality!
“Perry said she cobbled together her own curriculum after some mainstream publishers told her they would not sell directly to home-schooling parents.”
I picked this up too.
The secular establishment wants nothing to do with her, so she goes and gets angry with the people that ARE willing to sell her the materials because she wants them to be identical to the materials of the people whose bent is to want nothing to do with her!
Lady, you’re running up against the statist, megalolithic education establishment. We’ve been throwing our little rocks at that wall forever, and we can tell you they don’t want anything to do with people like you.
Besides, how does she know she likes their stuff anyway? She’s probably never read it; she certainly didn’t read the text from the homeschooling company before she bought it.
Now, if you want to remain ignorant about the immense research and study that has been done that points to Intelligent Design, you are FREE to do so.
Poor baby.
I know plenty of homeschoolers who cobble together curriculum because they can’t find anything out there that they really like.
Big deal. What entitlement mentality she’s displaying.
Sounds like a free market of ideas, doesn’t it.
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