Why Are Evolutionists Scared?
22 Apr 2006
Recently, a courageous local school board member proposed a ban on textbooks that exclusively espouse evolutionary theory. Unfortunately, the courageous member’s proposal was ignored by the rest of our school board, who promptly proceeded to approve the one-sided texts. Well, at least they didn’t force their courageous colleague to put on a dunce cap and sit out the rest of the school board meeting on a stool in the corner.
If, as we are told by today’s liberal educators, the higher purpose of education is to teach children how to think, not what to think, then why are today’s educators determined to maintain their ideological monopoly in America’s public schools? By banning all other opinions and hypotheses from the public school classroom other than their own, one cannot help but suspect that the real agenda of today’s public educators is to indoctrinate our children rather than instruct them.
As a Christian and Bible believer, I can honestly say to evolutionists, “I ain’t scared.” If they want to teach their cockamamie theory of evolution in the public schools, it doesn’t bother me. I believe our kids are bright enough to see through this thin veneer of so-called science to the absolute absurdity of a harebrained theory that suggests our intricately designed universe has no intelligent designer.
Although I’m not scared, I would like to know what evolutionists are scared of. I mean if Christians are stupid for believing that God became a man in the man Christ Jesus, and evolutionists are smart for believing that a monkey became a man, then why not teach both in the public schools? Wouldn’t this be the best way to rid the earth of Christianity and win it over to Darwinism? Wouldn’t our children immediately recognize the idiocy of Genesis—“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”—and embrace the genius of evolution—that everything, including you and me and a head of cabbage, came from a single cell that floated up on a slimy beach eons and eons of years ago?
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not afraid of fighting a war of ideas. We welcome it; thanks to the fact that we believe our faith is invincible. What we object to is being barred from the battlefield, forced to forfeit the contest, and forbidden from ever firing a shot. If you ask me, the true ideological cowards of our day are liberal educators and loony evolutionists who refuse to engage opposing forces until they are all bound, gagged and stood against the wall.
Don Walton
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