Evolution or Creation?
Dawinism In Education
The theory of evolution is a philosophy based on faith, not scientific fact. "It is," says Phillip Johnson, "sustained largely by a propaganda campaign that relies on all the usual tricks of rhetorical persuasion: hidden assumptions, question-begging statements of what is at issue, terms that are vaguely defined and change their meaning in mid argument, attacks on straw men, selective citation of evidence, and so on. The theory is also protected by its cultural importance. It is the officially sanctioned creation story of modern society, and publicly funded educational authorities spare no effort to persuade people to believe in it."[40]
"TELL A LIE ENOUGH TIMES AND IT BECOMES THE TRUTH." That was the strategy Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda director, used in his war against the Jews of Europe and it worked and it's working in America's educational system to promote Darwinism.[72]
"America's teachers brainwash our school children that Darwinian evolution is scientific; that the philosophy of naturalism is scientific; that moral relativism is based on Einstein's theory of relativity*; that "scientific socialism" is based on the social sciences; that society and law are evolving along with the human animal and hence are scientific; that all environmental, collectivistic, satirist policies are firmly based on the physical and social sciences and not the myth of religion; and finally, that everything related to the Bible is pre-scientific gibberish."[40]
"As long as Darwinists control the definitions of key terms (such as science), their system is unbeatable, regardless of the evidence." - Phillip Johnson[15] This is clearly shown whenever any educator attempts to challenge Evolution on scientific grounds.
Roger DeHart, who taught biology for 15 years at the Burlington-Edison High School in Washington state, presented creation theory, intelligent design and evolution theory, even showing the movie Inherit the Wind. Even though he did not promote any theory over another, the American Civil Liberties Union complained that DeHart was "violating the law" by teaching intelligent design. As a result DeHart lost his position; the school replaced him with a teacher fresh out of college.[66]
In Minnesota, Rodney LeVake who taught evolutionary theory lost his job when he also wanted to introduce design theory. He filed suit, citing a violation of his free exercise of religion, free speech and due process, because the school board wouldn't allow him to question evolution. However, the Minnesota Appeals Court decided against him.[66]
Phillip Bishop, who taught classes in exercise physiology at the University of Alabama, makes no secret of his religious views: He tells students he believes the human body was designed by God and is not the product of naturalistic evolution. Students who wanted to hear more were invited to attend a voluntary, after-hours meeting to discuss what Bishop calls evidences of God in human physiology. When a handful of students complained, the university ordered Bishop to cease and desist from making any comments about his faith.[19]
"Bishop challenged the restrictions in federal court and won. The court noted that the restrictions were aimed only at religious speech and not any other forms of speech. Besides, several professors testified that it was common practice to share their personal views with students, and that the university had never objected before. The court concluded that the university's actions toward Bishop amounted to unconstitutional "viewpoint discrimination."[19]
Nevertheless, the university appealed the decision, and it was overturned by a higher court. The Supreme Court declined to grant a hearing in the case, allowing the university's restrictions on Bishop to stand.[19]
In 1999, Darwinists launched a vicious campaign of threats and ridicule when the Kansas State Board of Education refused to require that Darwinism be taught as the sole explanation for life's diversity. (They did not ban the teaching of evolution, as the media widely misreported.)[79]
Typical of that response was a column by Scientific American editor John Rennie, which urged college admissions officers to "make it clear ... that in light of the newly lowered educational standard's in Kansas, the qualifications of any students applying from that state ... will have to be considered very carefully."[79]
Sadly, those tactics paid off the following year, when state elections shifted the board's membership enough to re-impose the old orthodoxy.[79]
In 2001, a non-binding amendment was added by the US Senate to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Authorization bill. Sponsored by Sen. Rick Santorum and approved by a vote of 98-1, the amendment urged teachers to help students "distinguish the data or testable theories of science from philosophical or religious claims" and become "informed participants in discussions regarding [biological origins]."[79]
Darwinists sent a letter to Congress signed by the heads of 80 scientific and evolution-advocacy groups. The signers brazenly reminded legislators about what happened in Kansas and warned that the "apparently innocuous statements in this resolution mask an anti-evolution agenda that repeatedly has been rejected by the courts."[79]
Despite the letter, the amendment remained in the legislative package with only minor changes. Not only that, but the idea is spreading. In Ohio, the state legislature is considering a measure much like the Santorum Amendment, while some members of the state board of education are pushing for a revised science curriculum that teaches evolution as "an assumption, not fact."[79]
A statement distributed by Ohio Citizens for Science, a pro-evolutionist organization, accused intelligent-design advocates of "legalized church terrorism" and branded them as "our local Ohio Taliban."[79]
The Supreme Court has ruled that Secular Humanism is a religion. Today Darwinism is uncritically taught as fact while alternate theories of biological origins, such as Biblical Creationism and Intelligent Design, are vehemently resisted. As a result schools, through teaching evolution, promote the religions of atheism and secular humanism and thereby violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.[13A]
* A principle of physics, not of sociology.