Strategy 1: Donate religious materials to local schools

If you are worried that your local schools are teaching children that religion has no place in the study of biology, please consider donating biology-related books, posters, CDs, and DVDs with religious content to your school. These materials can be given to public libraries, too, and even directly to science teachers who can keep them in the classroom as convenient reference sources. Students benefit greatly from being exposed to alternatives to the theory of evolution, which is the bias of most textbooks used these days.

These donations are completely legal, and provide a very good way to provide balance in the school without formally challenging the agenda of the mainstream curriculum.

Need some specific suggestions? The following are some links (at Amazon.com) of good materials to buy for your school, but there are many, many more:

Evolution under the Microscope
The Design Revolution
Of Pandas and People
Three Views on Creation and Evolution
Darwin's Black Box
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

These donations can also be tax deductible, but are best made anonymously so that a connection is not easily made to the religious affiliations of the donor. Purchases made at Amazon.com can be sent directly to the school's librarian. Use the promotion "L-DP-DQ-LGLRW" (for public schools only) with the code "caesar" to automatically receive the tax credit receipt as well as a 5% education discount from Amazon.

If you need additional help, or have suggestions on other great gifts for your schools, please send me (Roy Vanandel) a note at vanandel1@comcast.net. I'm especially interested in locating good sources of mugs, pencils, posters and other objects that can be given to science teachers for use in the classroom. Thanks for your support!