Creation vs evolution
If you're planning a vacation later this year, better make sure it's not in Kansas. According to recent reports, the state's overall IQ has just taken a nosedive. What has caused this "giant step back into the nineteenth century" as one person called it? Quite simply, the State Board of Education voted to de-emphasize evolution in state testing and to give local school boards the option of deciding whether or not evolution would be taught. Nationwide, the reaction has been vehement.On ABC's "Politically Incorrect," Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, Inc., referred to the Board of Education members as "Neanderthals." Invectives like "embarrassing," "backward," "insane," "intellectual backwater," "blotting out the light of truth and knowledge," peppered the Letters to the Editor of the Wichita Eagle's online edition. Even PBS's Bill Nye, "The Science Guy," weighed in on the topic. The Associated Press quotes Nye as saying "to reject this fundamental, beautiful thing about the world around us is harebrained. It's nutty." What is striking about the reaction to the Board's decision is not
If the concept of intelligent design by a creator is absurd, backward, harebrained and nutty, those who think so should reasonably--and scientifically--demonstrate why. What is it about our universe that precludes the existence of God? What scientific proof can be offered to quash the notion of an intelligent creator? Of course, no such proof exists. If it did, these folks would long ago have destroyed the concept of God and moved on with their evolutionary model. Phillip E Johnson in his book, Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds writes, "the intellectual elite in America believe that God is dead. In consequence they think that reason starts with the assumption that nature is all there is and that a mindless evolutionary process absolutely must (emphasis his) be our true creator. The common people aren't so sure of that, and some of them are very sure that God is alive." Last week, the "common people," spoke. They said, in effect, that they wanted to allow for the possibility that the magnificent universe we see around us did not merely pop into existence of its own accord. They wanted their children to be able to reasonably consider that the place
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