As I said in an earlier post, I've been seeing a ton of debate on the Intelligent Design issue. Most people, as with abortion debates and politics, go with what is most popular. I realized that I wasn't able to contribute anything intelligent to the debates, and the people who knew science really seemed to know their stuff. I didn't want to be the "religious idiot" who came in and said "Well God made everything. I don't know why or how or whatever, but you're all wrong and you're going to Hell." Those kinds of people really upset me, and I would be damned before becoming one. As I said, you are responsible for your beliefs. I decided to get educated.
Refuting Evolution by Johnathan Sarfati is way over my head. I think he really does try to make it readable, but I am someone who never understood (or cared about) science. Naturally, I haven't got too far in the book yet. What I have read, and fully understand, is the disturbing fact that the evolution theory is in fact an atheist agenda. I honestly had no idea. For example, Professor Richard Lewontin (a geneticist and self-proclaimed Marxist) wrote:
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs; in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but did he just say "We'll basically come up with anything just so creation doesn't get taught"? That's kind of what I got out of it.
In the past few years especially, it seems that the country has been trying to make the word "God" the new F-bomb. The ten commandments were torn down in front of that court house in Texas ( I believe it was Texas, don't quote me on that), there have been movements to take it off our money and out of the pledge, and now we are faced with an actual court case debating whether Intelligent Design has a place in our public schools. Maybe it doesn't, but if that's the case don't you dare teach my kids about Islam. I remember learning about pretty much every religion except Christianity in a public school. Fair is fair, right?
But it's not about fair. It's about an agenda. Most people don't realize that the teaching of evolution propagates an anti-biblical religion. The first two tenets of the Humaist Manifesto II signed by many prominent evolutionists are:
1. Religious Humanists regard the universe as self-existing, not created.
2. Humanism believes that Man is a part of nature and has emerged as a result of a continuous process.
Well, isn't that exactly what evolution teaches? We may as well hand out pamphlets for the Humanist church (if there were such a thing) to the kids. Humanist leaders make no secret of using the public schools to proselytize their faith. E. O. Wilson wrote in his book, The Humanist:
I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level - preschool day care or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new - the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism...
It will undoubtedly be a long, arduous, painful struggle replete with much sorrow and many tears, but humanism will emerge triumphant. It must if the family of humankind is to survive.
This quote alone raised so many red flags for me. Never mind the fact that evolution was a theory created for the sheer purpose of disputing God's creation, the fever behind pushing this agenda is just...scarey. Notice how many times he claims Humanism as a religion and evolution as its core. This seems pretty parallel to the Christian belief of Creation. If we forget the facts (or lack thereof) for a moment, and just think about that, it should become quite clear why evolution should not be taught in schools if Creation is not allowed. They are of the same animal now. Humanism=religion=evolution. Christianity=religion=Creation. What's the difference? Neither, or both should be taught, if equality was really the goal.
Later in the book he begins to go over the flaws of evolution, which I would also like to share once I get there. So far, it seems to me that, regardless of what you believe in, evolution and creation should be presented as choices. If the beginning of the world must be taught at all, then that is how it should be presented. I would also like to see "evolution" or "evolved" return to the prior theory status. Josh and I recently visited the Baltimore aquarium, and were shocked at how many times fish were said to have "evolved" certain adaptable body parts. Didn't this used to be just a theory? Since when did it become fact? The truth is, it never did. But they snuck it right in there, and nobody noticed. The atheists, and other religions pitch a huge fit every time they even think a Christian thought might wander into their spotlight, but it seems the Christians have been silenced. I wish they would get over their long case of larangitis and say something before their right to the minds of the youth is completely taken away. Maybe evolutionists are right and Christians were evolved with out a back bone. If that is the case, then let them have their evolutionary theories, but for the love of God, slither your way to the picket line and make your opinion heard too! There used to be two sides to this fight, and now there is simply the lies that evolution somehow became truth. The only thing that makes it truth is the fact that is undesputed, and that is extremely sad.
Recently my mom became pretty sick and therefore had to send my younger brother and sister, whom she'd been home schooling, to a public school. They started this week. She said to me, "You think you'll be able to send Riley away? You won't. It will break your heart, and that's because you know what is out there."
True, I don't want Humanists raising my baby.
2 comments:
What I got out of that first quote was basically that since we're human, we naturally try to fit the world and its beginnings into our little brains. We try to reason it by our standards so it makes sense to us.
Faith is something that many people struggle with. If you don't have it, then you're left to face reason, which isn't always what its cut out to be.
On a different note, It's great to see you educating yourself in your spare time. Someone's gotta be able to answer all his little questions!
I'm not religious at all, as you know. I fully support evolution, it just makes more sense to me. I do also fully support the idea of allowing for a choice as to what one will be taught in school. I just like people to make choices on there own and to question everything until they find what suits them best.
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