It has been a while time since my last "Around the web" post, and I have bookmarked more articles than I can reasonably make brief comments on. Here are a few... THE DEATH OF GOOGLE READER -- Since the untimely demise of Google Reader a couple weeks ago, I haven't been keeping up on the …
Tag: Homeschool
Around the web — 4/7/2013 — Archean jellyfish? Homeschool uncritical thinking? An atheist’s journey!
Jellied jellyfish -- The cover of the April 2013 Journal of Creation has a picture of a jellyfish, with a caption that states "Fossil Jellyfish from Western Australia: Challenging Geological Chronology." The article is "Fossil jellyfish from the Pilbara, Western Australia" by Philip Worts. The article is not available online yet, but I assume there …
The Old-Earth Christian homeschooling vacuum
At times it seems like the young-Earth creationists have a virtual monopoly on science curriculum materials for the Christian homeschool market. There are popular homeschool magazines that ban advertisements from curricula---secular or Christian---that teach an old Earth or biological evolution. The same goes for homeschool conventions and curriculum fairs. At the extreme in the homeschool …
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Around the web 12/3/2013
UNIVERSITY THOUGHT POLICE AT WORK AGAIN -- University of Michigan Kicks Christian Club off Campus because they require leaders to be Christians. This should be a no-brainer. Of course a Christian group on campus should have Christian leaders; this would be discriminatory only if the same rule were not applied to other groups. A Muslim group should be allowed …
Creationism, home schooling, and falling away from the Christian faith
Warning: the following statement is anecdotal and not the result of any sort of formal research: Christian kids who are home schooled all the way from pre-school through high school are only about fifty percent likely to retain their Christian faith once they finish high school. As I said, this "statistic" is not the result …
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