Wednesday 6 June 2018

Don't use ACE, Abeka or BJU

This article (and the linked 8 min video) does a good job of pointing out how bad the textbooks are from ACE (Accelerated Christian Education), Abeka and BJU (Bob Jones University).

Sadly, these three names pop up often in homeschooling conversations and it seems a lot of homeschoolers use them.

This is from an ACE high school biology book.


And this is from a BJU 8th Grade Social Studies book.


UPDATE 25/6/2018: In case you are wondering what is wrong with raising the idea of the possibility that dinosaurs and men (and presumably women, too!) lived alongside each other, it is worth checking out The Panda's Thumb (browse the archives -- there's heaps there).  This website often has very good articles that carefully look at the reasoning put forward for Young (and Old) Earth Creationism (including the "seems" and "possibly" ideas in the ACE book above), and clearly shows that it is weak to nil.  Given the lack of evidence, it is irresponsible to introduce it as a serious idea in a biology textbook for teenagers.

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