Teaching Your Homeschooler about Evolutionby Andrea Hermitt | More from this Blogger 26 May 2007 11:13 AM I realize my title may seem like a huge contradiction to many Christian Homeschoolers, but if you read my last post, you will see that I believe in teaching my children about all subjects in which the human population is familiar. Here are some sources you can use should you want to teach your child about evolution: Life on Earth is a simple no-nonsense book that teaches the "story of evolution". It is a children's book, written for ages 4-8, but it contains the "facts" that will give the children the information they need, regardless of age. The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, used by many classical homeschoolers, and a mainstay in many homeschooling households, covers Early Man in the beginning of the book. This is the book I used to teach my children the simple "facts" that schoolchildren receive about the world. Yes, they challenged a lot of what the book says, but I always instructed then to think of each "fact" prefaced by "according to evolution". For a more in-depth study, you can consider using The Kingfisher Book of The Ancient World. Answers in Genesis: "Answers in Genesis is an apologetics (i.e., Christianity-defending) ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith, and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively." Regardless of what tool you use to teach your children about evolution, I strongly believe you should follow that up (especially if you are Christian) with book, DVD's, and other materials from Answers in Genesis. Titles include Ice Age, which gives a biblical explanation for the Ice Age, Creation and Cosmology, which gives and overview of the evolving theories in secular astronomy, and Evolution exposed. Like I mentioned in my last blog post, I feel I have the responsibility to teach my children scientific theories as well as other religious philosophies. By doing this I not only make sure my children have an intelligent defense for their faith, as you cannot argue what you don't understand, but I also refute the arguments of those who claim I am not fully educating my child. *Have a question about homeschooling? Just ask. *Want to know more about homeschooling? Start with the 2006 homeschool blog in review! * Have you seen the homeschooling curriculum glossary? Learn more about Andrea Hermitt  Andrea Hermitt is a native New Yorker currently residing in GA. She has been married for over 16 years and has two teenage children. Relevanthomeschooling tags User Comments  Lyn Newton (3966) 26 May 2007 08:54 PMI agree. When I taught 8th grade science, I taught Evolution and the Big Bang Theory. I never agreed or said they were right. I just said this is what some people think. It is important for the students to know that those thoughts are out there so they can be prepared if they ever come across them. I'd rather them know the jest from me than here something else from some big beleivers in these ideas. oldjim (7) 01 Jun 2007 09:00 AMIf evolutionists want to end the arguments all they have to do is, get their brilliant heads together and assemble a 'simple' living cell. This should be possible, since they certainly have a very great amount of knowledge about what is inside the 'simple' cell. After all, shouldn't all the combined Intelligence of all the worlds scientist be able the do what chance encounters with random chemicals, without a set of instructions, accomplished about 4 billion years ago,according to the evolutionists, having no intelligence at all available to help them along in their quest to become a living entity. Surely then the evolutionists scientists today should be able to make us a 'simple' cell. If it weren't so pitiful it would be humorous, that intelligent people have swallowed the evolution mythology. Beyond doubt, the main reason people believe in evolution is that sources they admire, say it is so. It would pay for these people to do a thorough examination of all the evidence CONTRARY to evolution that is readily available: Try answersingenesis.org. The evolutionists should honestly examine the SUPPOSED evidence 'FOR' evolution for THEMSELVES. Build us a cell, from scratch, with the required raw material, that is with NO cell material, just the 'raw' stuff, and the argument is over. But if the scientists are unsuccessful, perhaps they should try Mother Earth's recipe, you know, the one they claim worked the first time about 4 billion years ago, so they say. All they need to do is to gather all the chemicals that we know are essential for life, pour them into a large clay pot and stir vigorously for a few billion years, and Walla, LIFE! Oh, you don't believe the 'original' Mother Earth recipe will work? You are NOT alone, Neither do I, and MILLIONS of others!  Andrea Hermitt (5512) 01 Jun 2007 02:48 PMhadn't thought of that challenge... but I did mention and link to answers in Genesis above  Valorie Delp (49340) 03 Jun 2007 07:27 PMFurthermore, Newton's laws disprove the Big Bang Theory. Both cannot be true. . . R & D educational center which has God's Design Science also has a great Natural History Museum Guide. You take your kids to the museum with the book in hand and have your own 'running commentary' (for lack of a better way to put it) from a Creationists' perspective. (These are the people associated with the Creation Research Institute I think.) 4fam (5) 24 Mar 2008 09:48 AMI agree also about at the very least exposing yourself and your children to the theory of evolution in order to understand and speak intelligently about the subject. In order to gain a better appreciation and understanding of intelligent design, I think there is tremendous value in having a knowledge of evolution as well in order to contrast the two. I found a resource that I think is helpful and a movie featuring Ben Stein is coming out next month that will address these issues: Intelligent Design vs Evolution brian_d_w (5) 19 Sep 2008 10:35 PMHey oldjim, Maybe you should go an read an introduction to evolutionary theory. Try the wikipedia page on evolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution First line:In biology, evolution is the process of change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. Pretty concise and to the point I'd say. Evolution is not about the origin of life. For evolution to happen you need to already have a self replication process under way. I repeat, evolution has nothing to do with how the first cell got here, its everything after that. BTW it wont be long before we have artificial life created out of whole cloth. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080515171023.htm It wont matter to you as you will simply move the goal post and find a different reason to ignore reality. Community Tags christian, evolution, Evolution is a myth, homeschooling, treat it that way Discuss this article
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