My husband and I were blessed to see the new Ben Stein move, Expelled, this week. The part of the movie that moved me the most was when a few professors described how they became evolutionists and how any belief in God was simultaneously extinguished in their lives. As one professor detailed, it happened when his biology teacher turned him on to evolution and by the end of the course, he was both an atheist and evolutionist.
I have heard this same story over and over again in the lives of everyday Christian parents. For example, I used to tutor this very smart boy who took several honors classes – honors physics, honors English, etc. But I told his Christian mother that I was worried that she was going to send him to a liberal ivy league college as he already had been exposed to so much secular humanism in this public school high school and he had little grasp of a Christian worldview.
She dismissed such thoughts, telling me he was the head of the children’s ministry in their church and was active in other church work. Sure enough, after one semester of college biology in which the professor bulldozed Darwinism into the students, this ignorant and unprepared teen declared to his shocked parents that he was now an atheist.
You need to homeschool to make sure your children understand Dawinism thoroughly before encountering it from the elites in academia. And they need to study the vast evidence for God as the creator, the infinitely intelligent designer of the universe. Otherwise, a child weakened by a public school education will likely be seduced by the fantasy of evolution and overwhelmed by the peer pressure to adopt an atheist view of the world.