Homeschool News & Views

Issue 54, January 20, 2008

From Homeschool Helpers

By Dan L. White

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The January/February 2008 issue of the Good News Magazine has an article titled Help Your Child Refute Evolution. The article can be found online by Googling the title.

I do not know the author and do not even know how to pronounce his name, so I won’t try, but we do have this in common –

We both strongly believe that children should not grow up believing evolution.

Evolution is not just a different way of looking at biology. Evolution is a different way of looking at God. Evolution says that everything is but God isn’t. Evolution leads directly to the most vile human behavior because it teaches that God’s laws aren’t.

The article starts out with a caption:

“Your children are likely being indoctrinated almost continuously with evolutionary teachings and ideas not only at school, but just about everywhere.”

However, most of the evolution indoctrination does come from school. A child might – might!! – watch a nature program on PBS which mentions evolution as fact, but every day in the public schools all education there is based on evolution. As ordered by the courts and accepted by the people, evolution has to be taught in the schools. Therefore God has to be excluded from the government schools.

Evolution is creation without a creator. God is creator. You can’t have both. Since evolution is forced on the schools and God is forced out, everything about the public schools is ultimately based on evolution. Everything there is based on the premise that God ain’t.

Evolution is not just an academic teaching. Evolution is a way of life. It is a way of life against God and His law.

If evolution is true, then the public school policy is wise. If evolution is a Satanic lie and God is Creator, then the worst thing you can do with your children is to send them to such a place to be taught.

The article says that your children are being indoctrinated with evolution just about everywhere. Really they receive almost all their evolutionary indoctrination in the public schools.

The article goes on:

“Here are some tips for helping them deal with these false concepts.

You are watching a nature show on television with your child. The film footage is impressive; the narration is interesting, adding fact upon incredible fact.

The narrator then adds another remarkable "fact": "Over millions of years, the hummingbird developed the remarkable ability to fly not only forward as other birds, but to also fly backwards and hover in midflight like a helicopter."

The next day your child comes home from school with homework for science. You notice some charts to be filled in, showing how human beings evolved over time.

What should you do?”

Let’s consider that question – what should you do?

In watching the evolution TV show, you might just avoid it. I generally do. They disgust me so much that I consider such programs garbage. There are wonderful alternatives, such as reading or the Moody creation programs. If you feel you need to watch an evolution TV show, then the parent would immediately and carefully argue with the premise of the show.

What should you do if your child has science work which teaches evolution?

Don’t let him be taught that garbage. Teach him God instead.

That’s simple, isn’t it?

If you believe in God, then don’t let your children be taught not to believe in Him.

If it is wrong for a Christian parent to teach his children that God does not exist, then it is wrong for a Christian parent to allow someone else to teach his children that God does not exist.

Would you as a Christian parent send your child to a church where the pastor taught them that God does not even exist? Then why send them to a school where the teacher teaches them that?

The article goes on, “Even if your children grow up in a Bible-believing home, in today's world they will be bombarded with the concept of evolution.”

That statement is true only for those children who spend most of their useful time in the evolution indoctrination institutions. I have known hundreds of Christian homeschoolers. They begin their school days with prayer and the Bible. When they study science, they do not study evolution. When they study social studies, they do not learn Godless liberalism. When they play, they do not learn the morals of evolution from their peers. They are not bombarded with evolution. Only those children whose parents choose to bombard them with evolution are so bombarded. Christian homeschool kids are bombarded with God.

The article then lists five points for un-teaching young people the evolution they are taught at public school.

The article makes the following statements:

“You are your child's most important teacher! And God intends you to be your child's most influential teacher…

Your child's teachers at school will most likely not be taking the time to become informed about this information if they believe in evolution, so you must.”

This is an enormous contradiction in a young person’s life. The parent is an authority figure. The public school teacher is an authority figure. The parent sends a kid to school, telling him to be a good little boy or girl and to pay attention to the teacher, and then when the kid gets home the parent is to spend time explaining why the teacher is wrong. Now does that make a lot of sense?

How can a parent be a child’s most influential teacher when the public schools occupy most of his useful time? If a young person is in the Godless evolution based culture for about eight hours a day, and the bedraggled parent happens to mention at the dinner table that evolution isn’t true, guess who has the most influence?

Almost all children raised in Christian homes and sent to the public schools wind up rejecting God, simply because that is what they have been taught most of their lives. Almost all children raised in Christian homeschools reject evolution and accept the God of the Bible, because that is what they have been taught.

Which is better?

The article goes on:

“You should also fill your children's minds with truth—reading the Bible with them regularly, starting at an early age and continuing through their formative years at home.”

Families which follow the public school lifestyle do not have or make the time to do this. The public schools are capturing kids at younger and younger ages. The school year is getting longer and longer. Satan does not intend for families to have time to teach them the Bible, so he sets his school system up to take up all their time. Barna’s surveys show that less than ten percent of Christian families spend even minimal time each week teaching their children the Bible. And even if they do spend minimal time teaching their children, that minimal time is overwhelmed by forty hours of public school culture!

This Good News Magazine article lists five points for unteaching the evolution kids are taught in the Godless public schools. The one point it doesn’t mention?

Don’t let them be taught that to begin with!

Duh!

A man was banging his head against a wall. Someone asked him why. He said because it felt so good when he quit. Same logic!

An alcoholic was constantly taking supplements for his liver, to try to keep it healthy. Finally he just quit drinking! Duh!

The key to the alcoholic’s liver was to stop abusing it in the first place. The key to teaching a child is to have him taught God’s teaching and not Satan’s teaching. Don’t let him be taught Satan’s way and then try to un-teach it, as this article maintains.

This article supports what it seeks to destroy. It seeks to destroy belief in evolution but supports the means of teaching that belief, the public schools. You see, the whole unstated premise of this article is that parents should send their kids to the public schools. As long as parents do that, their children will be taught a Godless way of life, and most of those children will grow up to accept that as their way of life.

Furthermore, homosexuality is now beginning to be taught in the schools and textbooks. Now public school parents will not only have to try to unteach evolution, but unteach sodomy, also.

The article concludes:

“The world around us is rapidly approaching its end. Why? Because it has rejected God. But we—including you and your children—have been called out of that world to walk with our Creator and prepare for the arrival of His Kingdom here on earth.”

Yes, this world has rejected God. This world’s schools are the prime means for teaching young people to reject God. Many Christian families have been called out of that world. They homeschool their children. Because of the faith and boldness of a few, now this option is easy and open to all in America.

A Christian homeschool family becomes like a little kingdom of God on earth. They don’t have to spend their time defending themselves against evolution, always trying to keep from slipping backward. They spend time learning the riches of Christ, going forward in grace and knowledge. Christians should not just wait for the Kingdom of God to obey. Obey now. Christians, get your children out of Satan’s schools.