{"id":10250,"date":"2010-03-06T21:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T01:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10250"},"modified":"2010-03-07T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T13:14:34","slug":"so-sad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10250","title":{"rendered":"SO SAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP(!) <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_REL_HOME_SCHOOL_EVOLUTION?SITE=NCFAY&#038;SECTION=HOME\">dissects<\/a> Christian\/creationist biology textbooks written for the homeschool market.  Jay Wile has a pretty ugly quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coyne and Virginia Tech biology professor Duncan Porter reviewed excerpts from the Apologia and Bob Jones biology textbooks, which are equivalent to ninth- and 10th-grade biology lessons. Porter said he would give the books an F.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this is the way kids are home-schooled then they&#8217;re being shortchanged, both rationally and in terms of biology,&#8221; Coyne said. He argued that the books may steer students away from careers in biology or the study of the history of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Wile countered that Coyne &#8220;feels compelled to lie in order to prop up a failing hypothesis (evolution). We definitely do not lie to the students. We tell them the facts that people like Dr. Coyne would prefer to cover up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I taught a homeschool co-op chemistry class at our church in DE (Yes, I used to go.  A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away).  They wanted me to use the Wile text.  I reviewed it.  Total piece of shit.  Really very, very poor.  Not surprising given how little respect he has for the way science works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP(!) dissects Christian\/creationist biology textbooks written for the homeschool market. Jay Wile has a pretty ugly quote: Coyne and Virginia Tech biology professor Duncan Porter reviewed excerpts from the Apologia and Bob Jones biology textbooks, which are equivalent to ninth- and 10th-grade biology lessons. Porter said he would give the books an F. &#8220;If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10252,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions\/10252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}