Erin
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In grade school it was basic information (we all do know that the Big Bang has nothing to do with evolution, right?), but by upper middle school science classes were fully inclusive of the various systems that make it all work... I remember talking about it in Confirmation class, actually, when I was in 7th grade.
Small town in rural Nebraska, but it was a college town, so there were/are pretty high educational expectations.
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Animals that should be older, because they would have evolved first, are found in strata above animals that should have evolved later. Intermediate forms predicted appear suddenly at the same time rather than in the sequence predicted. Different skeletons that are suppose to show transitional sequences are not found close together geologically, often found in widely separated layers representing tens of millions of years; the intervals are so huge that a possible connection cannot be made. There are also geographical holes. If one species is suppose to be the evolutionary/intermediate ancestor of the one preceding it, they should be found in relatively geographical proximity, but they often separated by thousands of miles.
This jumped at me just because we were just discussing it this week in Earth Science.
There are several types of crust deformations that lead to the above happening.
Here's a good, quick overview, with pictures: http://www.eoearth.o...ust?topic=50013
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I had some mystery ailment about two years ago. Bloody runs, massively inflamed terminal ileum, mysterious weight loss (that has long since come back, lucky me :p )... It was only bad, though, when I was cheating on my LC diet. ...Particularly things like donuts and bread.
The pain had gotten so bad, and I was so terribly dehydrated, I wound up in the hospital for five days while they tried to figure out what was going on. I was positive it was appendicitis, honestly. That's how much it hurt.
Tests revealed a bacterial overload and the doc was positive it was Crohn's but because the inflammation was so severe he didn't scope me immediately to make sure.
I was on anti-biotics and steroids to get everything back on an even keel, and a liquid diet while in the hospital. Interestingly, the first semi-soft food they gave me was cream of wheat, which sent me straight to the bathroom.
While waiting for my scope appointment, I went on a combination of the SCD and Whole30. I only ate food allowed on both diets! lol Three weeks later, when I went in for my scope, the doc was mystified. He said my colon was in perfect shape. There is no way he would have matched up that scope video with the MRI he'd seen three weeks prior.
So I told him about my diet. As soon as I mentioned cutting X,Y, Z, and gluten, his eyes lit up with an Ah-hah. Gluten? We might be looking at non-tropical sprue. (I had no clue what non-tropical sprue was. I had to Google it. Oh. Celiac. Well that kind of makes sense)
But, I'm not interested in testing further. So, I went to just SCD for the next few months, then started adding things back in a couple of months later, I just didn't ever add gluten, just everything else. Dairy...fruits....sugar...
I was symtom free for nearly a year. I probably have either celiac or Crohn's, but both seem to improve dramatically with diet.
So, the whole point of this windy post is that I, too, would recommend trying the SCD, first.
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Generally speaking, if a male is neutered before puberty, he won't mark... After that, though, and it doesn't matter if he's neutered or not.
IME, females rarely mark if they're spayed young.
But then you have the potential health issues of early altering, so this is a mixed bag...
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Personally, I think it looks kind of complicated. Maybe I'm just over-thinking it!
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A few years ago, when I was fresh out of college, I taught my first couple of years in a one-room schoolhouse and I had Saxon for our math series. So this is what I did. :)
The older kids would be handed their assignment, no lesson yet, and begin work on the parts that they know. Being Saxon, of course, most of their day's work will be repeats from previous information. If they had questions, they were not allowed to interrupt me. They either skipped it and went on to the next problem, or asked another student.
I would present the day's lessons beginning at the youngest and working up to the oldest.
Once the youngest was set down to do their seat work, they were under the same rules as the older kids--No interrupting me. Skip it or ask an older student.
With 9 kids ranging from K-8th, I was always in class with someone. So, I had a standing rule that when there are questions, you must ask two other people before you ask me.
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Yes indeed Luther condemned heliocentricity.
Interestingly, Protestants seemed to have had a much larger outcry against heliocentricity than Catholics...
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You need to look for resources specifically put out with a Christian bias. That's the only way you're going to find Creation referred to as a science.
Science doesn't acknowledge anyone's creation story, even a bloc as powerful as we Christians.
Like I said, this is more of a personal theology issue, I think. You might want to just study your Bible more... Or look for religious studies that reconcile origins of the universe/mankind with faith. Given your first post, you seem to have reconciled Old Earth with the literal creation...
Personally, I think if you're planning on your kids running in to this in high school and college (which they probably will), you want them to be firm in their faith in the face of the science. Their faith is non-negotiable. That's why it's theirs.
OTOH, creation science as some sort of alternative to evolution is highly debatable, which of course is why it IS debated regularly.
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Summer (with 6th grade to-be little sis):
Getting Started with Latin
Holt Science & Tech Life Science
School year
Math: Saxon Algebra 1 (but can't decide if we should do the original with Geometry combined, or the new, with Geometry separate)
Literature&History: Sonlight 100, American History
English: Find the Errors (editing!!)
Diagramming Sentences
Writing: IEW American History Theme
Science: HS&T Physical Science
Bible: Self-Study Bible
Logic: The Art of Argument
Latin: Continue Getting Started with Latin
Spanish: ??? I'm open to suggestions!
Music: Not sure what to do for study, but going to visit music teacher at school to continue trumpet and tuba. The offer was extended and I think we'll take him up on it.
Art: not sure again. Possibly Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain as well as something for appreciation
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First off nobody knows how evolution began right?
Well evolution didn't really "begin."
Evolution is the term for a process, or method. Kind of like saying, no one really knows when gravity began...
The statement doesn't make sense because you're talking about a process that doesn't have a beginning OR end.
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I just used a free download from Apimac. Mac only, I think...
I'm sure there are others though! Just search cNet and see what's out there.
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My son is 11 and he's a chronic dawdler
Or might have ADD... My DS13 has ADD (no hyperactivity, just a space cadet). Part of why we pulled him out of school, actually. He would cry from frustration. "How does everyone else get this stuff done, Mom??"
So you might do some exploration on tips, tricks and options for kids with ADD. We don't medicate, but we do use coffee liberally when needed. ;)
Our latest trick is using a timer on the computer that goes off every 15 minutes and asks "Buck, what are you doing?" He flips open his planner to his task tracker and colors in the bubble for whatever he's actually working on and goes back to whatever he was doing.
Some days the "Goofing off" bubbles get maxed out (4 hours worth). I don't make any judgements on how he's using his time, but when the complaint comes up that he has too much work today, we look at his tracker to see how much time he has truly devoted to work and how much to nothing-ness. It also serves as a reminder, every 15 minutes, that can snap him out of a daydream. And the responsibility is all his. I don't have to keep pestering him.
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It's on my short list for 8th, so I hope you get some opinions!
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Like I said, there are no tickets or price to pay to go to prom. That's a city thing where they have fancy venues and limos and such.
Generally speaking, on the rural plains, the Junior class does money-making projects throughout high school to pay for their prom. The seniors are their guests.
ETA: Upon further thought, I know some schools require a type of ticket for the head count for supper, but it's not really an additional cost, at least not a significant one.
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In the elementary years, I tend to teach via units, and within units I pull in a lot of literature relating to the topic at hand. In the internet age, it's only gotten easier to do so though you'll still need to do some legwork.
Just start doing Googles on specific topical units and see what literature is suggested within it.
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DS can easily take 3 or 4 hours to do Saxon math. He can stretch about any 1 hour task to 3 or 4, really... :001_rolleyes:
We rarely do the mental math as he has a good grasp on it, anyway. We only do fact sheets about 2 or 3 days a week. We'll do all the problems in the lesson and evens/odds in the practice. That brings us down to about 45 minutes, when he's truly on the ball.
At the same time, DS does well in math anyway, so YMMV.
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Price? Tickets? I've never heard of paying to go to the Prom. The junior class is usually in charge of putting it on and it'll be in the school's gym. Post/After Prom is the party after the band packs up. There are games and prizes and food (staffed by parent volunteers) until 5 or 6AM when they close up shop and it's at the school, too. Basically, once they're in the building, kids are locked in so they can't go off drinking somewhere and come back. ;)
Something odd out here that I didn't ever see growing up: Kids can't participate in Grand March unless they have dates. And really, they're discouraged from coming at all if they don't have dates. :confused1:
For both my junior and senior proms, I went with a bunch of girl friends. If my kids go to high school here, their father and I will be pushing for a change in the date-rule. That's just ridiculous!
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Personally OP, I would just suggest you spend more time in the Word.
So long as you don't try to limit the Creator to your own understanding, you'll find that there's really nothing in the Bible that disagrees with evolution. Isaiah 55:8-9
I've always found it ironic that Creation has closed the book on the beginnings of the universe/life. God did it just like Moses says and that's that.
On the other hand, the scientific process is constantly learning more and opening up new questions. If his ways are so far above our ways as to be the heavens above the earth, the direction that is always learning more but never finding ALL the answers has always struck me as the more Biblical...
Faith is faith. There's limited support for it because if there were scientific facts, it wouldn't be faith. And we'd all be Thomas, needing to put our fingers in the nail holes... ;)
My God is an awesome God. I can't even imagine trying to squeeze Him in to the small box of my limited comprehension.
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Ummm...really? An accepted fact of science? Well, let's just say I sure hope you are right in the end.
As a reminder: People can support evolutionary theory as well as have faith in the grace of God.
Jesus didn't say "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, but only if you believe Creation was limited to 6, 24 hr days..."
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No wonder I was confused. I didn't think the check the topic's rating...
It had to have been a goof. Accidentally clicking that part of your screen and not realizing you were hitting the stars or something.
Why would anyone deliberately knock a thread like this?
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Generally speaking, I think WTM skews more toward classics and and fantastic non-fiction, with some historical fiction. Sonlight seems to skew much more heavily toward historical fiction with a smattering of classics and very few non-fiction selections.
I would agree, mostly.
But as I said, there's a lot of cross over. Sonlight, particularly in the older grades, has kids reading classics and WTM recommends "Other books in this period" or something along those lines, which always contain the lighter books within the Sonlight list.
I was disagreeing that there was "nothing" to compare the two, when most people would see a great deal of similarity.
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We have a '68 Scout! It's the "new" Scout because the "old" Scout is a '64.
I grew up in a '69! :) Dad sold it about 10 years ago, though.
I remember he went to the state Bar Association meeting one year and the valet refused to park that old rust-bucket until he pulled out his membership card to prove that yes, he legitimately was a lawyer. lol :D
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Their book lists were nothing compared to the ones included in WTM.
Really? And I thought there was a LOT of cross-over... :)
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Me too...
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I am not by any means an expert, but diagramming sentences every day for two years was extremely helpful to me long-term!
My grammar is rudimentary at best, but I too have to credit diagramming with giving me as good of a grasp as I have.
Is there a resource refuting evolution
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I only have 89.
What's the magic number to not be considered a troll?