Re: AIG

I too, would love to see such materials developed. At least in my part of
the country, a number of churches seem to be starting schools promoting a
"classical Christian education" which seem to be a bit more open to a more
balanced approach to science-faith issues. Church youth groups could also
make use fo such materials.

Unfortunately, I bet it would be hard to interest a publishers, since there
would almost certainly not be the market for such materials that there is
for typical YEC fare.

Interestingly, a friend of mine who left her prep school science teacher job
to be home more with her baby tried to start her own business offering lab
class experiences to home-schooling families. She got a lot of inquiries
from parents, but when she saw the YEC materials they insisted she teach
from she decided she could not even tacitly endorse them.

If I'm not mistaken, Calvary Chapel has a network of Christian secondary
schools, which are heavy into YEC.
 
This maybe follows on with some of the discussion recently here about
interfacing with Evangelical seminaries. Another big problem, it seems to
me, is the huge influence of YEC on Evangelical-oriented Christian schools
and homeschooling curricula. This seems like another area where ASA could
focus some attention: preparing attractive, balanced curricular materials
for Christian secondary schools and homeschoolers.
Received on Wed Apr 12 10:59:54 2006