Every six months or so, there is another headline about Darwin’s theory of evolution and its place in schools. Over a century and a half later, Darwin’s crazy theory still draws controversy.

The most recent headline is how there’s a line of Christian home-school text books that are absent of Darwin. One mother used a regular science book and was horrified when her and her daughter reached the part about evolution. Further, the Big Bang?! Where is the 7 days God took to create the Earth?

Demographically speaking, this makes sense as a lot of home-schooling occurs in areas where Christianity is the only dish at the worship buffet.  Home-schooling parents want moral, religious and creationist views in their text books for their children.   If you’ve already made the choice to home-school your child, which I believe to be a HUGE developmental detriment, then go ahead and teach them what you want.  As a parent, it is your prerogative, however, it doesn’t give you the jurisdiction to remove my authority to allow my child to learn about scientific theories that contradict Genesis.

Although I send my daughter to public school, I still exercise my right to instill my values in her. I just haven’t written my councilman to change the school curriculum to suit my beliefs. Silly me, I actullay want my daughter to learn about many things, hear different points of view, then decide for herself.

Whether you are for evolution or against, does it really matter if there is a chapter in your child’s science class about it? I learned all kinds of bullshit in school that is still in the books today:

• The American Civil War was about slavery, when it was really a war over territory, power and economy.
• The Happy Thanksgiving feast leaves out the rape of Indian women, and slaughter of their children and men by the Pilgrims to take land.
• The Boston Tea Party wasn’t simply about “taxation without representation”.  They were protesting the the huge business tax cut given to the British East India Company to import tea so cheaply that local merchants had to close shop.  (Sound familiar?)

Bottom line:  Religion isn’t based on fact, it is mythology. Mythology is no more proven than a theory about man’s evolution. If you cannot accept a theory about creation, how can you expect someone else to accept a myth about creation?