The science article I posted yesterday is just the kind of thing that is GOOD to read over with your older children, and begin to help them take apart such a thing and really think about it.

The science community does not lay out for us that they are talking from unproven theories founded upon assumptions.

Take this line:  "The discovery is surprising because the dusty disk orbiting the pulsar, or dead star, resembles the cloud of gas and dust from which Earth emerged."

Just that in itself could be science for the day, as the idea is researched, "How do they know about a cloud of gas and dust from which Earth emerged?"  What evidence is there for this? 

Of course, this kind of thing is missing in the public school.  It is automatically assumed that the information in the texts and articles is correct information.  You don't have to be a scientist to do a little research.

Ken Ham's "Answers In Genesis" website is there with it's own search feature to help you along the way.  Even the secular books, as much as you search and search, cannot give you the proof they would love to make you think they have.  When you see big words wrapped in statements with no substance -- such as this:

"It shows that planet formation is really ubiquitous in the universe. It's a very robust process and can happen in all sorts of unexpected environments," said lead researcher Deepto Chakrabarty, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

You know that you STILL have not seen any proof.  As you chase these bunny trails, you will continually find that there is NO proof.  Just a lot of big words, spoken by men with big titles.  Whoop-de-doo.  Help your older children to see this.

As C.S. Lewis says in his Chronicals of Narnia "What DO they teach in these schools?"  (Or something such as that.)

We have the opportunity to teach critical thinking in OUR schools -- our homes.  Let's do it!  At least once a week would be good for investigating a secular article on science.