Wow, I never realized homeschooling could be so damaging....?

Question

These fundies must really be doing a number on their children. Twice in the last post it was said that scientific evidence supports a global flood. I've been in the field of biology for four years, and interested in the study of science for much longer, and can tell you with ease that no credible scientist would make such claims.

In fact, a global flood has been proven impossible.

It just frightens me to see that these parents feel it is alright to replace what we now know from strong evidence with religious dogma and think this is not at all damaging to a child's development....

Well by the physical laws of this universe it has been proven impossible. We don't have anywhere near the amount of water in our atmosphere. If we did, everyone would drown just by breathing in the water. There are no signs of global erosion, which without a doubt would have occurred on a massive scale if a global flood did occur.

Answer 1

How they raise their kids is none of your business.

Answer 2

I don't know what this has to do with homeschooling??? My nieces are homeschooled and they take normal classes online. One is taking Ocean Marine Science and another is taking Earth Science???

As a Christian I do believe that there was a flood. I do not believe that Noah is a fictional character as Jesus mentioned him as a faithful man. He mentioned that in the last days men would be just like in Noah's day. As Jesus had a pre-heavenly existance, he would have been an eye witnesses to the flood. Of course, I'm sure you don't believe in Jesus either....

I do have a question, how do scientist prove that there was a global ice age? Isn't ice frozen water? Why is it possible for the earth to be covered in frozen water, but not a global flood? I personally believe that the poles froze at the time of the flood, and that is why a mammath has been found frozen with food in it's mouth. You can call me stupid, if it makes you feel better, I don't profess to be a scientist. But scientist are just men and imperfect, like the rest of us.

The bible has given man answer on how we got here, why we are here and what the future holds. If you don't want to believe the bible, then you do have to go out searching for answers elsewhere. That is your choice.

Answer 3

You know the concept of homeschooling really dose not bother me. I mean you have a bunch of fundies that use it to only teach biblical studies at the detriment of basic math, science, history, and English. But you also have very well educated students as a result of homeschooling.

I think the answer might be in that the homeschooled kids have to pass a standardized test, administered like an SAT test to pass courses for each grade.

They can teach their kid whatever they want, as long as they have the basic knowledge they would have been expected to know in Public School.

Answer 4

Christian and not huge on the homeschooling idea.

But, I would love to see the research that proves a global flood to be impossible. I mean, I'm sure they did extensive and in-depth research that is just irrefutable by scientific fact like every other thing they do to try to disprove Christianity. I'm sure that none of it is just a theory.

Answer 5

I home school my kids. It appears you have no idea what it is all about. My kids get extensive work in all areas of study. In fact I keep tabs on what the public schools are teaching in each grade level and I make sure my children are keeping up with their grade level as much as possible.
Any kid who goes to public school is being corrupted. Not only by being taught evolution, but also most kids in public schools have not been taught any basic moral values by their parents. This is not even talking about Christianity. Just your basic every day human compassion.

Answer 6

The earth's surface and sedimentary crust bear strong witness to the historicity of a worldwide Flood, and the early geologists (Steno, Woodward, etc.) taught this. Most modern geologists have argued, on the other hand, that the earth's crust was formed slowly over billions of years. Yes, but consider the following significant facts.

1) All the mountains of the world have been under water at some time or times in the past, as indicated by sedimentary rocks and marine fossils near their summits. Even most volcanic mountains with their pillow lavas seem largely to have been formed when under water.
2) Most of the earth's crust consists of sedimentary rocks (sandstones, shales, limestones, etc.). These were originally formed in almost all cases under water, usually by deposition after transportation by water from various sources.
3) The assigned "ages" of the sedimentary beds (which comprise the bulk of the "geologic column") have been deduced from their assemblages of fossils. Fossils, however, normally require very rapid burial and compaction to be preserved at all. Thus every sedimentary formation appears to have been formed rapidly—even catastrophically—and more and more present-day geologists are returning to this point of view.
4) Since there is known to be a global continuity of sedimentary formations in the geologic column (that is, there is no worldwide "unconformity," or time gap, between successive "ages"), and since each unit was formed rapidly, the entire geologic column seems to be the product of continuous rapid deposition of sediments, comprising in effect the geological record of a time when "the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished."
5) It is also significant that the types of rocks, the vast extent of specific sedimentary rock formations, the minerals and metals, coal and oil found in rocks, the various types of structures (i.e., faults, folds, thrusts, etc.), sedimentary rocks grossly deformed while still soft from recent deposition, and numerous other features seem to occur indiscriminately throughout the various "ages" supposedly represented in the column. To all outward appearances, therefore, they were all formed in essentially the same brief time period.
6) The fossil sequences in the sedimentary rocks do not constitute a legitimate exception to this rule, for there is a flagrant circular reasoning process involved in using them to identify their supposed geologic age. That is, the fossils have been dated by the rocks where they are found, which in turn had been dated by their imbedded fossils with the sequences based on their relative assumed stages of evolution, which had ultimately been based on the ancient philosophy of the "great chain of being." Instead of representing the evolution of life over many ages, the fossils really speak of the destruction of life (remember that fossils are dead things, catastrophically buried for preservation) in one age, with their actual local "sequences" having been determined by the ecological communities in which they were living at the time of burial.
7) The fact that there are traditions of the great Flood found in hundreds of tribes in all parts of the world (all similar in one way or another to that in the Genesis record) is firm evidence that those tribes all originated from the one family preserved through the cataclysm.

Answer 7

In human thinking yes! but not with God, all things are possible. Are you absolutely sure there was no flood would
you stake your life on it?

God Bless

Answer 8

Yes, I dealt with a student attending a class I taught who was homeschooled. Over half his classes were about the Bible. He had two "general science" type classes, a little bit of math, some English, and that was about it. Needless to say, he had a lot of trouble getting through the class. He's got a bright future ahead of him...not.

Answer 9

You mean we can stop worrying abour rising sea levels and global warming?

Answer 10

Rent Jesus Camp. It has some home schooling in it

Answer 11

a lot of fundies think that there's NO evidence for evolution!! can you believe that there are people that ignorant in 2007?!!