Help Wanted: Science instructor. Teaching a Christian, biblical view to Life and Earth Science

[undeterred]

I just found this on Craigslist- I don't know what grade level it is. :-)

A homeschool group is looking for a Science instructor. Teaching a Christian, biblical view to Life and Earth Science, (i.e. biology, gealogy, chemistry). Our class is on Thursday afternoon.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Sadly, they are sure to find someone who fits the bill

[undeterred]

3. I am qualified and I could probably wing it

but it would be intellectually dishonest for me to do so. I mean, I think I know what they want except I'm not too sure about the chemistry. But this is why they are home-schooling, to keep their kids away from the "secular" influence- so they will probably network with other parents who are doing the same.

[lurky]

11. Creation chemisty:

I'm pretty sure atoms are held together by little angels.

[undeterred]

12. I've always wanted to simulate the Big Bang

but perhaps its a bit much for home schooling. :evilgrin:

[Orangepeel]

19. Final project: Make a man out of mud

or, a woman out of a rib. Your choice.

[lurky]

24. Note: Student must supply own rib.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. It is no fun, I can tell you. I assisted a few times in my husband's class when he taught

in a non-denominational Protestant school. I had to teach history, that after the flood Noah's 3 sons went separate ways and thus started the Caucasian, African, And Asian races. :puke:

[undeterred]

14. I taught biology for a correspondence high school

where they gave the students a choice between evolution and ecology. The home schooled religious students got a non-religious course in ecology instead of what they considered atheistic evolution, and the families were happy with that. Of course there was nothing specifically Biblical about it, but it didn't offend them.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. I always wonder how the non-evolutionists get into and through medical school.

[undeterred]

17. Different sets of mental furniture.

Its like speaking different languages. They are fluent in both. There is a tension between the two but they do what they have to do to survive.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. You would think all that cognitive dissonence would cause a mental breakdown

[undeterred]

20. Or make them change churches, at least!

;)

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Well, that does happen sometimes :^D

[Turbineguy]

2. Thursday afternoon?

I can do it but it's really going to cut into my Satan and Vice time.

[ET Awful]

4. They might want to look for a spelling teacher as well.

Gealogy? :P

[undeterred]

6. Actually, if you believe in a 6000 year old earth,

I don't know why you need geology. So maybe they don't!

[tannybogus]

7. It's a combination of geology and genealogy.

They try to map the history of Mother Earth and Father Time.:crazy:

[msongs]

5. that should only take 2 or 3 minutes .... the kids will be happy lol nt

[undeterred]

8. I'll slip in sex education.

[LWolf]

9. They don't need a teacher.

Anyone who can tell a good story will do.

[FreakinDJ]

10. Very Sad they are too ignorant to understand either

[undeterred]

15. A lot of scientists I know are very concerned about this

dumbing down of the population. It may seem like its not a big deal if a few students "opt out" but when it reaches a critical mass and people really don't believe in the scientific method- scientific research doesn't get funded.

[tjwash]

23. Why do you think our science and tech jobs are moving to China and India from this country?

I lived in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Bangkok for 3 years as an engineering consultant for a huge multinational that was relocating all of their production out there. Let me tell you...there is no shortage of good, well educated engineers and scientists in the other hemisphere, that will work for half of what they pay here.

And the dumbing down of the population, is a huge cause for concern. Instead of stepping it up a notch like we should be doing; and producing the next generation of front line inventors, architects, and scientists-we have become completely content to concede to the rest of the world.

To be fair though...I can't hang this all on religion. Sometimes I think that this current mantra of "everyone is a winner". and "there are no losers" and the rest of the stuff that is supposed to be raising self-esteem is also actually making huge swaths of people content to just not want to compete, or struggle to adapt to a changing world.

Just my opinion from what I've seen in the trenches...

[undeterred]

25. Well, I didn't think it was because of fundy home schooling

I would relate it more to the choice of majors in college or people not being able to afford college or graduate school. But the dumbing down of the population is noticeable in a lot of areas.

[Hidden Stillness]

22. Like Hell They Are!

"..Yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
"And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." Isaiah 30:20-21.

The more these people shut themselves off from the world, cut themselves off, refuse to face it at all, even as the world rolls on and time marches on, the more ignorant they get, and the more an enemy of the ordinary society they become. Needless to say, almost all Christians are modern and virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the surrounding society on general opinions and knowledge; this is a group that will not face or admit the modern world or thought at all. I heard a little while ago--can't remember where the original study was from, heard on cable "news"--about educational studies done comparing "home-schooled" kids and public school kids of same age groups, and the home "schooled" ones were far, far behind, several grades, and had huge gaps to their knowledge; whether it was pseudo-"Christian" or any other kind did not matter--there were huge problems.

Yet again, they are not Christians; they are a modern, extremist development. Biblical literalism is a totally fake, modern reaction to the changing, educated world. To cut yourself off from the world around you, and understanding of it, is to cut yourself off from God, Who put it and us, all here.