Top Home-School Texts Dismiss Darwin and Evolution

I read an article on FoxNews.com tonight that I thought was interesting. It was an AP story they ran on how many, if not most, Home-School biology text books present a creationist world view instead of an evolution world view.

It starts describing the experience of Susan Mule, a home school mom, and her daughter Elizabeth:

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!'"

The article makes it seem as though Susan and her daughter are victims of a hate crime because their ideas on biology were not taught in these books.  If they have such a strong faith in evolution, you would think she would put forth more effort to know what text she was using before she used it.  How ridiculous is it for her to get mad at the publishers for what they printed in their biology curriculum, when she obviously didn't take the time to preview it to be sure it fit her worldview.

It gets better though.  Apparently home-schooling families that do not subscribe to a creation worldview feel "Isolated and frustrated".  Many home-schooling families using these text can empathize with this feeling since that is what drove them to home-school in the first place.  You see, in public school (and many private schools) a creationist worldview is considered disallowable because it is associated with the Bible.  Despite a lack of substantive proof for the theory of evolution and much evidence supporting creation, the politically correct cult of public education insists on pushing it's agenda that science must never have anything in common with Christianity (or in this case Judaism and Islam as well).

Next they accused the two best selling biology textbooks of stacking the deck against evolution.  They even quote a scientist (or at least a professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago...I am sure he is not at all biased), who said, "I feel fairly strongly about this. These books are promulgating lies to kids."  Well notice he talks about how he feels, but doesn't mention what even one of these so called lies might be.  He must think that it is enough that he is a scientist saying so, because, you know, scientist never lie (especially about science like Global Warming).

Skip a few paragraphs and you are introduced to Mia Perry (aka Mia-Like-to-Whine-a-Lot) another home-school mom being discriminated against by the free market.

Here is her story:

In Kentucky, Lexington home-schooler Mia Perry remembers feeling disheartened while flipping through a home-school curriculum catalog and finding so many religious-themed textbooks.


"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.

So what is next, an article about how disheartened Mia was when she looked through a menu at her local Jewish deli only to find only Kosher foods?

Jerry Coyne (the unbiased Prof. from Chicago) is now joined by Duncan Porter, a biology professor from Virginia Tech, in revealing this crisis of blasphemy against the faith of evolution, giving the 10th grade biology text from Apologia and Bob Jones an F.  The open minded Coyne chimes in again saying, "If this is the way kids are home-schooled then they're being shortchanged, both rationally and in terms of biology."  He is worried that deceiving naive home-schooled students with these lies will steer them away from careers in biology or the study of the earth.

Adam Browns parents disagree:

Adam Brown's parents say their 16-year-old son's belief in the Bible's creation story isn't deterring him from pursuing a career in marine biology. His parents, Ken and Polly Brown, taught him at their Cedar Grove, Ind., home using the Apologia curriculum and other science texts.


Polly Brown said her son would gladly take college courses that include evolution, and he'll be able to provide the expected answers even though he disagrees.


"He probably knows it better than the kids who have been taught evolution all through public school," Polly Brown said. "But that is in order for him to understand both sides of that argument because he will face it throughout his higher education."

You see, Adam, and many other home-schoolers are taught both theories, unlike most public schooler who are taught only evolution.  It seems that public education and many "scientists" are more interested in dictating what science is, instead of observing and letting the truth be revealed.