Introduction

[Margie]

Hi. I am so happy to have found this group. I happened to notice on
a couple of the recent posts that there are at least a couple
Sonlighters here. I, too, use Sonlight. I'm in my second year of
home schooling my 2 children who are nearly 9 and nearly 11 (currently
3rd and 5th grade). I am a minority in the Christian homeschooling
world and at my church in that I am in the Old Earth Creation camp,
so it's nice to find a group of like-minded people. I read Creation
and Evolution by Alan Hayward, I believe, and that pretty much
convinced me. I haven't had a chance to study any of RTB's materials,
but look forward to having the opportunity, as well as whatever other
resources I can learn about.

At this point we've done a variety of unit studies for Science;
animals, birds, the human body, volcanoes and earthquakes, electricity
and inventions. I am just about ready to start the TOPS unit study on
radishes. I imagine I can get away with this approach for about
another year, then as my son reaches junior high age I am going to
have to start thinking more along the lines of Chemistry, Biology,
etc. I will probably take the approach of using curriculum that come
from an Evolutionary perspective, and point out the evolutionary
assumptions as I go, since this is the kind of material they'll be
learning in college anyway. I think I'll be more comfortable coming
at Science from that approach than from a strongly YE approach.

I imagine I'll be mostly a lurker here, trying to learn as much as I
can from all of you. Hopefully, I'll have something relevant or
helpful to say once in a while :-) When I reach the point of needing
to choose some more advanced materials, I hope I'll be able to ask and
get some ideas of things to look at.

Thanks for allowing me into the group, and thanks for being here!

[Jennifer Vaughn]

Margie, welcome to the group. Just to let you know, I'm a former homeschooler who's just hanging around here to chime in with a kid's point of view. I think that using "evolutionist" curricula and taking the opportunity to point out the assumptions to your son sounds great. Not only are you preparing him to sniff out the hidden dogma in lirking in some Biology texts, but also in other subjects like Anthropology and Linguistics when it might not be so obvious to the casual observer. You might get some ideas from Jonathan Wells' Icons of Evolution (2000), which imo is a lighter critique (and, therefore, more accessible to a younger audience) then a lot of other books. -Jennifer

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Jennifer Vaughn
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