Evolution must start on
the premise that “something” was already available (Big Bang, ocean, etc.) and
from that available “something” life forms began to evolve. In the beginning of
many evolution books, especially text books, on about the second or third page
tucked away in the middle of a paragraph, inside a sentence is a little phrase
that usually says, “the inorganic became organic.” The writer then moves,
without fanfare, to build the theory of evolution on the foundation of that
little phrase without ever stopping to explain how that event happened.
Public education in the
United States has accepted this theory almost without question. School children almost universally within
that system accept the theory and internalize it as a basis for their world
view. When a belief takes root that
becomes so pervasive as to capture the thoughts of most students passing
through the leaning system, it renders the learners to such a position of
rigidity they will not even entertain a competing thought that may change their
desired course of thinking. When that
happens, one can finally say their belief has become a form of religion carried
forward only by faith.
So when School Boards and
the local, state and federal governments push to extend the teaching of
evolution exclusively, isn't that violating the principle of "separation
of Church and State"?
Jim Killebrew
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