Brian Scoles

What could be the problem?

I’m going to try to come at this as objectively as possible to see if it makes any more sense without my samurai sword of subjectivity towards this particular topic.  Let me know.

Christian-based materials dominate a growing home-school education market that encompasses more than 1.5 million students in the U.S. And for most home-school parents, a Bible-based version of the Earth’s creation is exactly what they want. Federal statistics from 2007 show 83 percent of home-schooling parents want to give their children “religious or moral instruction.”

Change the word U.S. to Germany and 2007 to 1900 and that seems like something you would read in Hitler’s biography.  Speaking completely objectively, shouldn’t home schooling be illegal?  There are enough schools out there that you should be able to find a decent one.  Home schooling’s intelligence is like calling yourself a home dentist because you have a silverware set.

“The majority of home-schoolers self-identify as evangelical Christians,” said Ian Slatter, a spokesman for the Home School Legal Defense Association. “Most home-schoolers will definitely have a sort of creationist component to their home-school program.”

Oh good.

“Those who do not believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God will find many points in this book puzzling,” says the introduction to “Biology: Third Edition” from Bob Jones University Press. “This book was not written for them.”  The textbook delivers a religious ultimatum to young readers and parents, warning in its “History of Life” chapter that a “Christian worldview … is the only correct view of reality; anyone who rejects it will not only fail to reach heaven but also fail to see the world as it truly is.”

In case you missed it…this is a Biology book, not a Theology book.  You might as well write a biology book based on the board game “Operation”.  Fuck me.  Where’s my sword.

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