Yet this study doesn't seem to support that. It would be interesting to see a similar study done that draws a distinction based on the exact reason for rejecting the theory of evolution.

I've been saying for years that not accepting the theory of evolution doesn't mean a person can't perform scientific work. Now there's some scientific evidence to back it up. I wonder if people will be scientific about this now and drop the idea that those who do not accept the theory of evolution are somehow hindering scientific progress.

I read the entire article and still don't know what Amazon wants. Apparently they just like to be mean, according to the author.

Way to go injecting politics into the discussion. FTFA:

The other opinion of that is that Crimea has the right to secede and receive help from Putin or anybody they please. Thank you for making it harder for me to listen to you objectively by dropping a political dispute into this.

You might also be interested in the very thought-provoking rules and procedures Arthur Robinson used with his children. You might not want to do things at all his way, but you still might like to think about what he has to say, especially about math.

http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p59.htm

http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p60.htm

Here are an algebra book and a geometry book that I thought were very good. In 7th grade I went to a summer math program that used these. For the upper courses they used all the other books in the series that contains the algebra book, but I haven't checked those out yet.

http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-I-Expressions-Equations-Applications/dp/0201860945/ref=pd_sim_b_5/002-3278004-1006461 http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-McDougal-Littell-Jurgensen/dp/0395977274/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=156P3DE9N61MT1DC9G5D

Oddly enough the geometry book was from a different series. My public school used that series for both algebra and geometry, and I did not think highly of the algebra book.

A better resource for you might be to check out a homeschool bookfair if you can. Go now while your child is 4, just to look. Go back next year with a little money, and as your child gets older, go back with more and more money (and you'll have lots of knowledge by then about what you want to buy!)

I had a pre-calculus and calculus teacher in high school who spent most of her time bragging on how enlightened our school's calculus education methods were. This was remarked on all the time - we skipped a lot of stuff that was supposed to be bad ways of teaching, and we now permitted graphing calculators, and I don't know what all else was supposed to make it wonderful.

Now our school was actually a Texas "Blue Ribbon" math school, which means on some level we were considered to have a superior math education program. But personally I read all the material in our textbook that was skipped, and I helped a lot of my friends who were struggling - and I did it by reteaching them the same thing from different points of view until they got it, utilizing both the "modern" teaching we'd received in class and the skipped book material. (I believe at one point I even borrowed my dad's college Calculus text from the 1960s as well.)

For all the noise that was made about how great our teaching was, there were a lot of people struggling, and they benefited from hearing the "bad" instructional methods that we were bragging we were skipping.

My kids are homeschooled, and one of the first things I started doing when we made this decision was accumulating a math textbook library. The thought of being able to teach kids math myself instead of throwing them to the mercy of whatever educational fads are being bragged about in a few years was part of what made the homeschooling decision so appealing.

Likewise. I hate the federal government, too, but I want to secede, not kill people. I hate the government for doing the same thing McVeigh did, only on a larger scale - can't see how worshipping McVeigh would help with any of that.

One way to ameliorate that problem is to stop throwing poo at the fan.

Can't find where I did that - perhaps you have me confused for someone else, or are tilting at a strawman.

What would I do? Bring the troops home, then resign. If Japan actually attacked again after that point, people could rally an effective defense. I don't think they were any danger at that point, and I don't really think they would have ever been a danger without the belligerent actions of Franklin Roosevelt toward Japan before America got into the war.

P.S. Richard Maybury's "Uncle Eric Books" do a good job of talking about the alternative perspective to yours without any "America is evil" crap.

I encourage you to research this conclusion - Japan had been told that nothing less than unconditional surrender would be accepted. Unconditional surrender means that there is absolutely no protection for your civilian populace when you surrender. They can all be killed by the invading victors who have all been spending the last few wartorn years dosing up on racist propaganda explaining how inhuman your people are. A demand for unconditional surrender in war was unprecedented until the world wars and was a very good reason for people to continue to be afraid.

In the end even after the atomic bombings, Japan was allowed one condition on their surrender, which was the same one they wanted before the bombings.

I think this business of getting an app is just self-righteousness. People who oppose cell phone use while driving simply don't use their cell phones - their problem is that they want everybody else to stop using their phones. So you can use an app to prevent it and tell everybody how great you are for doing so and hope they follow suit. But in this case your solution, the hammer, sounds better.

Maybe my perspective is limited because I still have a dumb phone, but it strikes me that maybe the problem is that you are trying to solve this problem with the wrong tool.