Homeschooling? (Read 1986 times)

 See how you stripped the body of the animal from its environmental/cultural circumstances and posited an "ideal form"? This is a common way to misread the theory of evolution. 

um... no. i read his post like three times and then read yours slowly, but i am not following this. please break it up into tiny little pieces for me. preesh!

I missed the part in my hard science edumacation where something had to be reproducible or it was "soft".  All this time I thought it required hypotheses to be tested with hard data that that DATA to be reproducible.

Thanks to the modern miracle of rapid genomic sequencing, evolution is being studing in a miriad of organisms at the DNA level.  We can trace how single genes evolved, duplicated, and evolved again independently into new but related genes on the way from fruit fly to human.  Since the data and hypothesis can be tested again and again and validated through multiple strategies in multiple organisms, this sounds like hard science to me....

I can't speak for TN but everywhere I have lived north of there, this fundamentalist movement to teach creationism is schools is driven by an exceedingly small fraction of Christions.  Just a handful, really.  They are hardcore so they drive influence larger than their numbers.

As a Christian I do not support the teaching of Christian or religious doctrine of any kind in schools.  So which denomination's version do we teach???  This is why the founding fathers, mostly Christian men themselves, were brilliant to separate church and state.  If I want my kids to learn religion in schools I will pick which religious school I want them to go to.

Homeschooling is ok...I am indifferent...but I think that parents a) first need to make sure they have the capability to provide a robust education to their kids through whatever grade they plan on homeschooling and b) are doing it for the right reasons.  My neighbors (yes, fundamentalist Christians) thought of homeschooling their kids to protect them from "bad influences" in public school.  The problem is, you can't shelter your kids forever.  Part of growing up is about learning to deal with such pressures and make good decisions on your own.  Some of the biggest trainwrecks of human beings I have seen were people whose parents over-protected them growing up, so they went crazy when they got away to college and did not have the experience or maturity to control themselves.

For those scoring at home, we have ennay to thank for this.

Edited to add: in case it isn't obvious, that right there is a JOKE.  Threads like this aren't really all that jokeable, but there you go.

"Ask me about my biblically designed training"

I knew it would happen someday. We agree!

Ha. 

I think it is a small group that really drives the problem. But they do influence a lot of moderate Christians and introduce a kind of low-level soft skepticism towards science that takes work to undo. I see the effects in my students.

I missed the part in my hard science edumacation where something had to be reproducible or it was "soft".  All this time I thought it required hypotheses to be tested with hard data that that DATA to be reproducible.

 

Thanks to the modern miracle of rapid genomic sequencing, evolution is being studing in a miriad of organisms at the DNA level.  We can trace how single genes evolved, duplicated, and evolved again independently into new but related genes on the way from fruit fly to human.  Since the data and hypothesis can be tested again and again and validated through multiple strategies in multiple organisms, this sounds like hard science to me....

 

I can't speak for TN but everywhere I have lived north of there, this fundamentalist movement to teach creationism is schools is driven by an exceedingly small fraction of Christions.  Just a handful, really.  They are hardcore so they drive influence larger than their numbers.

 

As a Christian I do not support the teaching of Christian or religious doctrine of any kind in schools.  So which denomination's version do we teach???  This is why the founding fathers, mostly Christian men themselves, were brilliant to separate church and state.  If I want my kids to learn religion in schools I will pick which religious school I want them to go to.

 

Homeschooling is ok...I am indifferent...but I think that parents a) first need to make sure they have the capability to provide a robust education to their kids through whatever grade they plan on homeschooling and b) are doing it for the right reasons.  My neighbors (yes, fundamentalist Christians) thought of homeschooling their kids to protect them from "bad influences" in public school.  The problem is, you can't shelter your kids forever.  Part of growing up is about learning to deal with such pressures and make good decisions on your own.  Some of the biggest trainwrecks of human beings I have seen were people whose parents over-protected them growing up, so they went crazy when they got away to college and did not have the experience or maturity to control themselves.

For those scoring at home

Wait.  I thought this thread was about schooling at home, not scoring.  Scoring at home is a totally different matter.

And it is go to see that we all agree that Phil Collins and Ernest T Bass look alike.

Trent kinda did that by extrapolating an ideal human body as one without bunions

Not quite.

What I said was that certain characteristics, such as bunions, would...

have reduced a person's likelihood of mating

The fittest are most likely to score.

NO. WAY.

Proficiency at guitar trumps "fit" and it ain't even close.