The Biblical reason Creationism must be kept out of schools.

[Bushido216]

I just surveyed them before we started. I needed to know my secondary audience (the parents). It was mostly about plate techtonics and earthquakes. So, dealing with Pangea, I wanted to get my bearings, since the time frame was bound to come up.

My 4 year old God daughter thinks my 21 years make me about half as old as the planet. Her grandparents (mid 40s) predated dirt.

Regardless of their parents theological views a kid is really unlikely to every suppose something as big as a few billion years. It has more to do with conceptual limitations than any education on the matter.

 

[busterdog]

My 4 year old God daughter thinks my 21 years make me about half as old as the planet. Her grandparents (mid 40s) predated dirt.

She thinks the world of you!

Regardless of their parents theological views a kid is really unlikely to every suppose something as big as a few billion years. It has more to do with conceptual limitations than any education on the matter.

Most of them had been taught creationism either at home or other parents. Thus, the "several thousand"

My kid said 6,008. I made him sit in the corner and read Bishop Ussher again. Just kidding.

I emphasized that the Bible doesn't say, and God made the earth in 4000 BC. The only absolutely essential truth is who Jesus was and what he did. We talked a little bit about how much time evolution requires, and thus, how much death. They can learn most of their creationism at home or Church, I mainly wanted them to have the foundational concepts to think about the issues and understand what is being taught about the earth.

 

[Mallon]

It was mostly about plate techtonics and earthquakes. So, dealing with Pangea, I wanted to get my bearings, since the time frame was bound to come up.

So what did you teach them about plate tectonism and supercontinents within a 6000 year timeframe?

 

[juvenissun]

I just surveyed them before we started. I needed to know my secondary audience (the parents). It was mostly about plate techtonics and earthquakes. So, dealing with Pangea, I wanted to get my bearings, since the time frame was bound to come up.

Very interesting. I don't have any homeschooling experience.

I wonder if you use any textbook? What does the textbook say about these issues?

 

[busterdog]

Very interesting. I don't have any homeschooling experience.

I wonder if you use any textbook? What does the textbook say about these issues?

The last guy already bored the heck out of them in categorizing types of rock and layers of the earth.

What I did was really just start with what was a fascinating question to me, which is why do things look like they do, so stable and uniform, and yet we have evidence of these huge changes? After that, you are just working in the basics of what subduction is, continental drift, the mantle, plate, uplift, etc. Then you talk about earthquakes hopefully without scaring the snot out of them. All that really takes is about 20 minutes on the internet getting a few pictures and terms.

My major victory is that the kid with the major ADHD issue was involved the whole class, and only once blurted out something like, "I captured Iceland playing Risk with by brother."

 

[busterdog]

So what did you teach them about plate tectonism and supercontinents within a 6000 year timeframe?

That the little bit of progress we see in movement at the mid-Atlantic ridge wouldn't get it done in a short period of time. We almost got to the point about the magnetic orientation of the rock, suggesting a long evolutionary time frame, but I somehow that wasn't a priority. But, it would take enormous amounts of energy to move a continent quickly, so we speculated about some forces that might have caused that.

 

[champuru]

As it would have the early Hebrews.

true, thats what i always tell creationists