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Science Fair Season Starts

January 13, 2008UncategorizedCreation Science, Creationism, Education, Homeschooling, Intelligent Design, Science EducationGreg Laden

It is science fair season! Elmer’s Inc is cranking out the three-part display boards, Office Max is stocking up on its colored paper and glue sticks, and thousands upon thousands of kids are working out the fine details of the hypothesis they want to test using an experiment that can be demonstrated in the Science Fair.

Pretty boring, actually.

Unless you focus on the Christian Creationist Science Fairs. They are Always so much fun. And remember, Greg Laden’s Blog here at scienceblogs.com is your Christian Creation Science Creationist Science Fair Center! Keep checking back!

For now, I have a few examples of previous winners at the Trinity High School science fair, one of the classic fairs, the one everybody watches.
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Home Schoolers Are Annoyed by Wife Swapping

January 6, 2008UncategorizedHomeschoolingGreg Laden

Have you ever seen the TV show “Wife Swap?” Admit it, you have. It is a form of ethnography in its own somewhat demented way. But it is also a very specific, network-endorsed statement about class and character of society.
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Secular Media Caused Colorado Shootings

December 13, 2007UncategorizedHomeschooling, Politics, ReligionGreg Laden

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (a Christian Right non-profit “think” tank founded by James Clayton “Jim” Dobson) blames the secular media for home schooled Matthew Murray’s deadly rampage in Colorado. According to Perkins:

“It is hard not to draw a line between the hostility that is being fomented in our culture from some in the secular media toward Christians and evangelicals in particular and the acts of violence that took place in Colorado yesterday.”

Sources:

Colorado shootings blamed on “secular media”
Fundamentalist Christian Uses Colorado Shootings for Political Gain
Religious right group exploits tragedy for political gain
Standard Lunacy From the Religious Right