Just send 'em to a Christian university.

[cormac]

They're not going to be happy anywhere else.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/BAQT129NMG.DTL&tsp=1

A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution.

Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of free expression, U.S. District Judge James Otero of Los Angeles said UC's review committees cited legitimate reasons for rejecting the texts - not because they contained religious viewpoints, but because they omitted important topics in science and history and failed to teach critical thinking.

The Bible may be infallible, but it still says bats are birds, donkeys can talk, the sun can stop its course through the sky, and people can come back from the dead, which makes it a shitty science text.

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[blackbirdsings.livejournal.com]

Hey, I doubt that mess would fly even at most respectable Christian universities. The somewhat sane ones, I mean.

What's tragic to me is that these kids are graduating with such an "education" to begin with. I'm all for religious freedom and educational choice, and even the integration of the two when it's a private school - but it seems like compulsory education should be held to the same standards no matter where you're getting it.

I don't understand why so many religious institutions feel that good science has to be a threat to their beliefs. I was homeschooled by my Christian mother until the 5th grade. We studied the Bible every day, but we also learned about biology and evolution and the universe and the timeline of natural history. I was bloody well never drawing pictures of people farming alongside dinosaurs, but I somehow managed to be a devout Christian for several years, despite having received a decent education.

Bah.