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<p>The high school kids I’ve worked with who come from Christian schools show no noticeable deficit in (age-appropriate) logic or rhetoric compared to their peers from public school. The home-schooled kids (some Christian, some not) I’ve known are usually far more capable in this area than the ones from public school. I think you are following a false course of thought here.</p>
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<p>The other poster used the expression “backward country.” I think that’s cultural bigotry. What would you call it?</p>
<p>There are so many posts here I’d like to respond to. My kids Christian school, and the parents, have really struggled with this UC issue over the last ten or so years. From my own perspective, I was surprised to find this was an issue ( shame on me; she started there at age 4), when I was invited to a roundtable discussion as my daughter apporoached high school, and curriculum was being discussed. My kids were at that school because we liked the atmosphere; not because of the religious teachings. My kids, especially my D, really loved the school, and was very involved in her faith. She did not want to leave, and in the sixth grade, could care less what it meant about college choices ( needless to say she has NEVER been on CC!). WE were concerned , but not enough to remove her against her will, and the school board compromised over the years, teaching side-by-side, a curriculum that supported it’s own values, but also the one that secular folks, would be well versed in. Many classes were not UC approved for credit, but that’s not why these kids were taking them. MAN, I wish ther was an AP in religious studies! My D came away from all this feeling she has the basis to support her beliefs, and demonstrates this fairly well, at least with her parents ( who are both MD’s). We remain concerned ( our son calls us “evolutionists”. my D says there is a difference between micro and macro evolution, and we can talk about intelligent design without either of us “losing it”), but think she turned out pretty great, got into 5 of the 6 UC’s she applied to, and will attend a non-UC, secular school, where she is a little anxious, but willing to learn in that setting. In fact, she is signed up for an indepth seminar, where she will be studying religion in the context of the “genome revolution”.She LOVES genetics, and for some reason, at least at this level, does not see this s a conflict. We will see. I am psoting this to say there are many postions among us California taxpayes ( and I pay PLENTY!), and few of them are extreme.</p>
<p>The general public at large, even if you sampled only all the atheists, has a seriously pseudoscientifically-misinformed view of evolution. Descendants are part of a phylogeny, but it’s something the public often sems to ignore, and there are many complex principles to guide the way, which is why there’s so much calculus and probability involved. </p>
<p>SPECIES DO NOT EVOLVE LIKE DIGIMON.</p>
<p>This may be the single finest thing I’ve ever read on CC: </p>
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<p>Thanks!</p>