Over the years, I have received criticism and ridicule from
some of my fellow Christians, because I believe that in order to know your
adversary you must study them. If you
are going to condemn something as being wrong for some reason, you must know
what you are talking about. This applies
to both sides of any issue. If you are
unsure of what the other side is saying and how they reached their conclusions,
you are fighting with one hand tied behind your back. In my opinion, those who are against the
teaching of creationism and the Bible in our schools, have done so based on
emotion and lack of education (in some cases they are espousing an agenda and
don’t feel the need for truth or are trying to hide the truth). As Christians, we should always be ready to
present the facts when we stand for our position. For example, books like the Harry Potter
series elevate principles that most Christians don’t think are advantageous for
our children (such as witchcraft). We
should not condemn them, however, if we are going only by what we hear, rather
than first hand knowledge such as reading them for yourself, before you let
your children do so. Furthermore, you
wouldn’t have read much of the Koran to realize that it conflicts a great deal
with the Bible, even though Mohammad said that both the Old and New Testaments
were the word of God[1]. Facts are facts and truth is truth; if you
don’t base your knowledge on truth and fact, you are subject to the whims of
misinformation. I know that it is not
politically correct to indicate that there are bad people and bad ideas out
there, but truth tells us when something or someone is wrong or even evil.
I am not saying that everyone should have a Christian
education (although many of our country’s founders did) because we are a
multi-facetted and multi-cultural nation.
Denial, however, of the Christian principles and Bible foundation of our
nation leaves our students with a serious breach in their education. Thus, they
are at a disadvantage when dealing with the basis upon which the laws and statutes
of our nation were established. Supposedly,
we want our children to be taught how to think for themselves. How can we expect that result if vital
information is withheld from them, and they are only given one side of an
issue? If, on the other hand, those
presently in charge of our educational systems want the populous of the country
to be ignorant of the facts in order to thwart the principles upon which we
were founded, they have been successful in their quest. As we all know, knowledge is power, and those
who possess the true knowledge have an advantage over those who don’t.
What is the purpose of education? What were the Goals of the first schools set
up in this country?
The two big issues in schools seem to be evolution vs.
creation and the Bible. Neither
evolution nor creation can be proved so far by scientific study. The evidence, however, is definitely falling
into line more on the side of creation.
Even the name “Theory of Evolution” is wrong. Dr. Karl Popper, regarded as
one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century,
said that evolution is nothing more than a metaphysical research program. That makes it less than a hypothesis and
based more in faith than fact. In
scientific circles, there are certain criteria that establish whether something
qualifies as a Hypothesis, a Theory or a Fact.
Set amounts of scientific fact (proof) have to be established before
something can move from Hypothesis to Theory and then be established as
fact. The “Theory of Evolution” has
never been elevated above the category of Hypothesis and still, therefore,
remains just an idea. The Bible is the
oldest book available that documents the history of mankind. Many have tried to disprove the Bible and
thus far all have failed. Since the
Bible undoubtedly played such a large part in the lives of our founding fathers,
and thus the founding of our country, shouldn’t it be included in the
curriculum so that students would know the basis for the decisions of our
founders?
Benjamin
Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Surgeon General of the
Continental army, ‘Father of American Medicine’, treasurer of the U.S. Mint,
‘Father of American Medicine’, treasurer of the United States mint, ratifier of
the United States Constitution’ and ‘Father of Public Schools under the
Constitution said; “The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of
government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of
Christianity by means of the Bible.
The
great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more
effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading
mankind that it was improper to read the Bible in schools.” “The
greatest discoveries in science have been made by Christian philosophers and .
. . there is the most knowledge in those countries where there is the most
Christianity.”
These days we are told that science and religion don’t mix,
and therefore religion shouldn’t be taught in our schools. The truth is that the real founders of
science would have something to say about that.
The following list of scientists, and the scientific
disciplines they invented, would have a lot to say about science mixing with
religion, as they were all Bible believing Christians. I have to thank the late Dr. D James Kennedy
for saving me a lot of research in this area.
A poll of scientists
concluded that Sir Isaac Newton was the greatest scientist that ever lived.
Francis Bacon was the
inventor of the scientific method.
Joseph Lister – Antiseptic
Surgery
Louis Pasteur - bacteriology
Sir Isaac Newton – Calculus
Johann Kepler – Celestial
Mechanics
Robert Boyle – Chemistry
Georges Cuvier – Comparative
Anatomy
Charles Babbahe – Computer
Science
Lord Rayleigh – Dimensional
Analysis
Sir Isaac Newton – Dynamics
James Clark Maxwell –
Electrodynamics
Michael Faraday –
Electromagnetics
Ambrose Fleming – Electronics
Lord Kelvin – Energetics
Henri Fabre – Entomology of
Living Insects
Michael Faraday – Field
Theory
George Stokes – Fluid
Mechanics
William Herschel – Galactic
Astronomy
Robert Boyle – Gas Dynamics
Gregor Mendel – Genetics
Louis Agassiz – Glacial
Geology
James Simpson – Gynecology
Leonardo Da Vinci –
Hydraulics
Matthew Maury – Hydrography
Blaise Pascal –Hydrostatics
Louis Adassiz – Ichthyologl
William Ramsay – Isotropic
Chemistry
Lord Rayleigh – Model
Analysis
John Ray – Natural History
Bernhard Riemann –
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Matthew Maury – Oceanography
David Brewster – Optical
Mineralogy
John Woodward – Paleontology
Rudolph Vichow – Pathology
Johann Kepler – Physical
Astronomy
James Joule - Reversible
Thermodynamics
James Clark Maxwell –
Statistical Thermodynamics
Nicholas Steno – Stratigraphy
Carolus Linnaeus – Systematic
Biology
Lord Kelvin – Thermodynamics
Humphrey Davy –
Thermokinetics
Georges Cuvier – Vertebrate
Paleontology
These were all Christians who
believed in creation and the Bible.
In 1782, shortly after the nation was formed, the congress
was instrumental in getting the first English language Bible, printed on
American soil, published. One of the
main purposes for this Bible was for use in our schools. It’s truly amazing how much better some
people think they understand the Constitution than the people who wrote
it. Volumes were written by those
founders in explanation of what they did and why they did it. For some people, it’s a good thing, that
today our children aren’t exposed to the true history of our nation. If they were exposed to the truth, they might
not be as easily misled about our nation and its Christian foundations. It is my considered opinion that quite a bit
of physical damage would be done to those responsible for the present deceptive
practices if the founders were alive today. Our founders were men of action. You can only push people so far before the
call to arms is heard. Our founders
fought a bitter and difficult war to establish what those with their own
agendas are chipping away at today. I am
not calling for the taking up of arms as yet because we do have those weapons
that were not available to the founders such as the vote, the right to
assemble, freedom of speech and the right of redress.
“There’s abundant
evidence proving that the general principles of Christianity were indeed firmly
embraced by the vast majority of our founding fathers and that those principles
formed the foundation of American government.”[2] Isn’t it about time we began a campaign to
see to it that the schools teach the truth to our children? They are, after all, our children; not the property
of the state. Did you know that you have
the right to monitor your child’s classroom?
You also need to review your children’s textbooks for accuracy and
omissions.
In a case in Philadelphia
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