MAKING
MONKEYS OUT OF EVOLUTIONISTS
8/27/2002 |
SOURCE: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/printct20020827.shtml
Cal Thomas (back to story) August 27, 2002 Making monkeys out of evolutionists It's back-to-school
time. That means school supplies, clothes, packing lunches and the annual
battle over what can be taught.
The Cobb County, Ga., School Board voted unanimously Aug. 22 to
consider a pluralistic approach to the origin of the human race, rather
than the mandated theory of evolution. The board will review a proposal
which says the district "believes that discussion of disputed views
of academic subjects is a necessary element of providing a balanced
education, including the study of the origin of the species."
Immediately, pro-evolution forces jumped from their trees and started
behaving as if someone had stolen their bananas. Apparently, academic
freedom is for other subjects. Godzilla forbid! (This is the closest one
may get to mentioning "God" in such a discussion, lest the ACLU
intervene, which it has threatened to do in Cobb County, should the school
board commit academic freedom. God may be mentioned if His Name modifies
"damn." The First Amendment's free speech clause protects such
an utterance, we are told by the ACLU. The same First Amendment, according
to their twisted logic, allegedly prohibits speaking well of God.)
What do evolutionists fear? If scientific evidence for creation is
academically unsound and outrageously untrue, why not present the evidence
and allow students to decide which view makes more sense? At the very
least, presenting both sides would allow them to better understand the two
views. Pro-evolution forces say (and they are saying it again in Cobb
County) that no "reputable scientist" believes in the creation
model. That is demonstrably untrue. No less a pro-evolution source than
Science Digest noted in 1979 that, "scientists who utterly reject
Evolution may be one of our fastest-growing controversial
minorities...Many of the scientists supporting this position hold
impressive credentials in science." (Larry Hatfield, "Educators
Against Darwin.")
In the last 30 years, there's been a wave of books by scientists who do
not hold to a Christian-apologetic view on the origins of humanity but who
have examined the underpinnings of evolutionary theory and found them to
be increasingly suspect. Those who claim no "reputable
scientist" holds to a creation model of the universe must want to
strip credentials from such giants as Johann Kepler (1571-1630), the
founder of physical astronomy. Kepler wrote, "Since we astronomers
are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits
us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all
else, of the glory of God."
Werner Von Braun (1912-1977), the father of space science, wrote:
"...the vast mysteries of the universe should only confirm our belief
in the certainty of its Creator. I find it as difficult to understand a
scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality
behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian
who would deny the advances of science."
Who would argue that these and many other scientists were ignorant
about science because they believed in God? Contemporary evolutionists who
do so are practicing intellectual slander. Anything involving God, or His
works, they believe, is to be censored because humankind must only study
ideas it comes up with apart from any other influence. Such thinking led
to the Holocaust, communism and a host of other evils conjured up by the
deceitful and wicked mind of uncontrolled Man.
There are only two models for the origin of humans: evolution and
creation. If creation occurred, it did so just once and there will be no
"second acts." If evolution occurs, it does so too slowly to be
observed. Both theories are accepted on faith by those who believe in
them. Neither theory can be tested scientifically because neither model
can be observed or repeated.
Why are believers in one model -- evolution -- seeking to impose their
faith on those who hold that there is scientific evidence which supports
the other model? It's because they fear they will lose their influence and
academic power base after a free and open debate. They are like political
dictators who oppose democracy, fearing it will rob them of power.
The parallel views should be taught in Cobb County, Ga., and everywhere
else, and let the most persuasive evidence win. |
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