Today, a federal judge ordered a Cobb county school district to remove stickers they had added to their textbooks. The stickers read…
This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.
Take a quick look at this article and you should immediately see some serious flaws in the justices’ thinking.
The judge claimed that the stickers were unconstitutional on first amendment grounds. Here is the first amendment…
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The judge is preventing a local school board from communicating to its students that evolution is a theory. He is abridging these parents’ speech to promote the current defacto state religion of naturalistic secularism. There is no dispute that the statement on the stickers is true, and all they ask is that the student approach the subject with an open mind. And we are supposed to be the intolerant ones! The irony would be laughable if the stakes for our society were not so high.
PS: Thanks to Donna for sending the article my way!
Is anyone besides me getting tired of having to make this point over and over again? – Evolution is /not/ a fact, Christians are no more or less scientific than others, and the Bible /is/ supposed to be scientifically accurate. Do they listen? Because I hear these statements persistently, no matter what we try to do to level the playing field. I suppose we’re a whole lot easier to dismiss if we’re working from purely “religious” information rather than science. It is very frustrating…
That is what I love about the I.D. (Intelligent Design) movement. Folks like those at the Discovery Institute are making the case for a creator through purely empiric/scientific means. And those folks are making huge waves in the scientific community. In fact, some of the ridiculous backlash coming from the naturalists is because the ID movement has them on the run.
To some, it sounds like compromise to make common cause with other theists (Jews, Muslims, Deists, etc.) to make the case for an intelligent creator, but I don’t think so. As far as it goes, we agree with them. The evidence around us makes it clear that there is a mind behind the universe and its order. The difference is that we know that mind is the God of the Bible. Once we get people across the line from naturalism to theism, then we work on the move from mere theism to Christianity.
Fantastic BLOG Eric. Isn’t it wild that the public school system in America is the largest center for organized religion? Yes, you heard me right, organized religion! The THEORY of evolution is a based on a belief system that cannot be supported by any scientific method. Fundamentally the issue is not about science and religion; it’s about religion vs. religion. It’s also ironic that the educational system in America is promoting exactly what it is trying to eliminate – ignorance.
I saw a NightLine last week about the same thing happening in Dover, PA – including ID in the school curriculum. It went into how the issue pretty much dividing the entire town. How most of the town considers themselves Christians yet they are so divided over the issue. How each side considers it a war.
It reminds me of the mass media’s bias toward liberism under guise of journalism – except it’s secularism under the guise of education and science.
Ted’s parting thought was completely one-sided siting the “turtles all the way down” story. Do a google. :^)
Here’s the turtle anecdote…
Once again, the irony is palpable… It is naturalistic evolution that no answer to the ultimate question of how something (the universe) came from nothing. Our turtle stands on a transcendent God. The evolutionist’s turtle appeared about 14 billion years ago, but he has no idea how–it just did. Talk about faith!