I shuddered when I read
On The Box with Ray Comfort Homeschoolers Miss Out on Sexual Promiscuity and Much More, it is anti science idiots like this that give homeschooling a bad name.
He says
I have met many kids who have been educated by their parents (using what one atheist on my blog called "idiot" home-school textbooks, and I have found that they are consistently respectful, well-adjusted to life, sociable with their peers, and extremely knowledgeable.
Not all us use those dreadful textbooks there are many
secular textbooks available to homeschoolers, textbooks that teach REAL SCIENCE not this .....................................garbage. And I don't see how anyone can be considered knowledgeable when their "so called knowledge" is based on fiction not science. But if parents want to teach their children superstitious nonsense that is fine with me just don't pretend to speak for all homeschoolers.
He goes on to paint a totally biased portrait of public schools. While I am not a fan of the public school system and choose to homeschool my own children there are many good public schools out there that in no way resemble the public schools of Ray Comfort's fevered imagination.
He then says
Had home schoolers attended public school they would have also been brainwashed by an
unproven theory about human origins,
The THEORY OF EVOLUTION has been proven countless times, just like the THEORY OF GRAVITY.
No serious
biologist today doubts the theory of evolution to explain the marvelous
complexity and diversity of life. In fact the relatedness of all species
through the mechanism of evolution is such a profound foundation for
the understanding of all biology that it is difficult to imagine how one
would study life without it. (page 99)
The examples reported here from the study of genomes, plus others
that could fill hundreds of books of this length, provide the kind of
molecular support for the theory of evolution that has convinced
virtually all working biologist that Darwin's framework of variation and
natural selection is unquestionably correct..... As Theodosius
Dobzhansky a leading biologist of the twentieth century (and a devout
Eastern Orthodox Christian), has said, "Nothing in biology makes sense
except in the light of evolution." (page 141) - The Language of God by Francis S. Collins
More post on Homeschooling and the Theory of Evolution can be found here.
