"Science" textbook for fundamentalist homeschoolers

Dixie, even you cannot possibly be in favor of students being taught the bullshit that is in that textbook. "Electricity is a mystery"? "We cannot even say where electricity comes from"? WTH? In what world does that pass for an acceptable science textbook?

Dixie probably agrees that electricity is a mystery. Or at least 1/3rd of it...
 
The problem I see is, that is a Christian school book, and not a Home school book.

Christian schools are going to teach Creation theory, and there's not a whole lot you maggots can say about it.

With voucher programs being put in place taxpayer money is being used to teach this crap.

Why are you opposed to EDUCATION? Shouldn't we teach EVERYTHING and not CENSOR what is taught? Isn't that how we keep from becoming brainwashed by governments and stuff? By being free to discuss and talk about EVERYTHING, and not just the things YOU wish to discuss?

I'm not going to live in YOUR world... you need to get that through your thick heads. I don't give a damn if you have to be fought in the streets for 100 years with stones and knives, I am STILL NOT going to live in YOUR world. I REFUSE! So there! You can keep trying to make me, you can keep attempting to strong-arm me, and I will continue to resist you with every fiber of my being until the day I die, and then someone will take my place. Bottom line, you will NEVER succeed.

I did not defend teaching ID in public schools. I simply said that I would need to see links before I believed that the textbook discussed in the OP will be used by any public schools. Your link was very interesting, but I did not see where it said anything about the textbook in question.

Using public school money to provide vouchers for public school students to attend these schools is akin to them. The idea of the voucher is to killl public schools.

Here's the link I posted on my forum regarding this:

http://www.alternet.org/story/15592..._publicly_paid_for_christian_school_textbooks
The Loch Ness Monster Is Real; The KKK Is Good: The Shocking Content of Publicly Paid for Christian School Textbooks
Thousands of Louisiana students will receive state voucher money, transferred from public school funding, to attend private religious schools. What will they learn there?
June 18, 2012 |

This 2012-2013 school year, thanks to a bill pushed through by governor Bobby Jindal, thousands of students in Louisiana will receive state voucher money, transferred from public school funding, to attend private religious schools, some of which teach from a Christian curriculum that suggests the Loch Ness Monster disproves evolution and states that the alleged creature, which has never been demonstrated to even exist, has been tracked by submarine and is probably a plesiosaur. The curriculum also claims that a Japanese fishing boat caught a dinosaur.

On the list of schools approved to receive funding through the new voucher funding, that critics warn could eventually cut public school funding in half, are schools that teach from the Christian fundamentalist A Beka Book, Bob Jones University Press, and Accelerated Christian Education curriculum.

What's in that curriculum? Last year, researcher Rachel Tabachnick and I co-produced a 35-minute documentary on the spread of a similar voucher program in Pennsylvania and other US states, titled "School Choice: Taxpayer-Funded Creationism, Bigotry, and Bias" . Embedded at the end of this post is an eight-minute video segment from that documentary with scans from material in currently used A Beka Book and Bob Jones University Press texts (in this May 25, 2011 story Tabachnick provides quotes from those textbooks.)

One of the schools cleared to receive substantial new funding through LA governor Bobby Jindal's voucher program is Eternity Christian Academy, in Westlake, LA, which according to Independent Weekly writer Walter Pierce,

...has been approved to accept 135 new students. That's a considerable uptick in enrollment, which at the end of this school year stood at 38 -- a more than 300 percent increase. Talk about buttressing the budget; $1 million in tax dollars will be diverted from the public school system to Eternity Christian, a school that, according to its mission statement, offers "a quality faith-based curriculum that is soley [sic] based on principles from the Bible ...

According to the Eternity Christian Academy website, the school uses the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum. So, what's in the ACE curriculum?

An August 29, 2009 story in the Times Educational Supplement, a British publication for teachers, provides an excerpt from an Accelerated Christian Education science textbook:

Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence.

Have you heard of the `Loch Ness Monster' in Scotland? `Nessie,' for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.

Could a fish have developed into a dinosaur? As astonishing as it may seem, many evolutionists theorize that fish evolved into amphibians and amphibians into reptiles. This gradual change from fish to reptiles has no scientific basis. No transitional fossils have been or ever will be discovered because God created each type of fish, amphibian, and reptile as separate, unique animals. Any similarities that exist among them are due to the fact that one Master Craftsmen fashioned them all."

Extract from Biology 1099, Accelerated Christian Education Inc. (1995)

Is the text still in use today? The answer is yes, according to U.K. critic Jonny Scaramanga, who was raised on the ACE curriculum and now runs a blog titled "Leaving Fundamentalism: Examining Christian Fundamentalism in The UK".

In a popular post titled Top 5 Lies Taught By Accelerated Christian Education , Scaramanga states, "I called ACE [Accelerated Christian Education] on May 3rd, 2012, and was told that all of these PACEs are still in print and the content has not changed. These lies are still being taught in over fifty British schools today."


There's more but you get the gist. The fact is this is money directed for use by public schools being diverted to parochial schools. That is unconsititutional.
 
Dixie, even you cannot possibly be in favor of students being taught the bullshit that is in that textbook. "Electricity is a mystery"? "We cannot even say where electricity comes from"? WTH? In what world does that pass for an acceptable science textbook?

With all due respect, you can't really tell us why electricity exists, can you? You can explain how it works, you can explain what causes it, but you can't tell us where it came from or why? I think this is what the book is pointing out, of course, we only get the snippet and not the entire chapter, so we don't really know much... just what the lying shit turds want us to know.

I tell ya what isn't 'acceptable' to me, is censoring information from people under the guise of 'education.' To refuse even mentioning creation theory, even in the context of... Hey, here's something some people happen to believe... I don't get what't the harm in teaching this, can YOU explain? It's funny that we can start threads here and have hundreds or thousands respond, and a robust debate from both sides, yet this is forbidden in schools from even teaching there IS a debate?
 
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Look Mr. Hollow Earth with Gnomes Living Inside, you can 'groan' all you like, it doesn't bother me. What you apparently CAN'T do, is make a point or refute mine. So......???
 
With all due respect, you can't really tell us why electricity exists, can you? You can explain how it works, you can explain what causes it, but you can't tell us where it came from or why? I think this is what the book is pointing out, of course, we only get the snippet and not the entire chapter, so we don't really know much... just what the lying shit turds want us to know.

It clearly states that no one knows where it comes from. That's a fucking falsity. It's akin to saying the Earth is the center of the solar system, or that Earth, Fire, Air, and Water are the only pure elements. It's fucking wrong, and teaching children this handicaps them.
 
It clearly states that no one knows where it comes from. That's a fucking falsity. It's akin to saying the Earth is the center of the solar system, or that Earth, Fire, Air, and Water are the only pure elements. It's fucking wrong, and teaching children this handicaps them.

Again, do you know where electricity comes from? It's not akin to saying anything, it is a question, not a statement. Apparently, at some time during your public educating, you were handicapped in logic, because you miss something this basic.
 
Again, do you know where electricity comes from? It's not akin to saying anything, it is a question, not a statement. Apparently, at some time during your public educating, you were handicapped in logic, because you miss something this basic.

It's the flow of electrons through the valence shell of atoms you idiot. Mystery solved.
 
With all due respect, you can't really tell us why electricity exists, can you? You can explain how it works, you can explain what causes it, but you can't tell us where it came from or why? I think this is what the book is pointing out, of course, we only get the snippet and not the entire chapter, so we don't really know much... just what the lying shit turds want us to know.

I tell ya what isn't 'acceptable' to me, is censoring information from people under the guise of 'education.' To refuse even mentioning creation theory, even in the context of... Hey, here's something some people happen to believe... I don't get what't the harm in teaching this, can YOU explain? It's funny that we can start threads here and have hundreds or thousands respond, and a robust debate from both sides, yet this is forbidden in schools from even teaching there IS a debate?

Dixie, I posted a picture of the actual page of the textbook that I quoted. No, it is not a mystery. Yes, we know where it comes from, or how it originates. To say it is a mystery is pure bullshit.

I want science to teach EVERYTHING that fits within the bounds of science and the scientific method.
 
Again, do you know where electricity comes from? It's not akin to saying anything, it is a question, not a statement. Apparently, at some time during your public educating, you were handicapped in logic, because you miss something this basic.

Dixie, the textbook says we don't know where it comes from or what it is. That is bullshit.

They say we don't know what electricity is? Funny, a quick Google search shows what it is.

"Definition: Electricity is the flow of electrical power or charge. A phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. Associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons. The directional movement of electrons, due to some imbalance of force, is what is known as electricity."
 
I have no problem with homeschooling. I think it can be a viable alternative. But this is simply sad.

http://www.11points.com/Books/11_Eye-Opening_Highlights_From_a_Creationist_Science_Textbook


From this textbook:

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I pity the children who have to face the real world after this sort of education.

Lets hope we never elect a president with this sort of education and beliefs too?!!

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They also called it the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, the Egyptian Empire, the Italian Renaissance, and pretty much most of human history until the 1700s.

you left out the chinese empires that did well without religions (other than ancestor worship)
 
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