Imperishable Inheritance

I don't get fired up much anymore over social or political issues. I had my time in the sun glaring at the news constantly, analyzing world reports, and discussing politics ferociously; but I found my endeavor to ultimately be fruitless. Politics, while certainly can be ground in absolutes, has so many "grey areas" that I left it for philosophical and theological studies which I felt could be seen as more concrete. Anyway, there is an issue that has recently caught my attention, and that issue is whether intelligent design should be taught in the classroom.

Recently, an U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania decided that it was unconstitutional to teach intelligent design in public schools. The judge, John Jones, says the following:

"[Intelligent design advocates] have bona fide and deeply held beliefs which drive their scholarly endeavors...our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach [intelligent design] as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom."

The only thing that the Harrisburg school board made happen was that a statement was read before teaching evolution that stated that it was not "fact" and that there are unexplained gaps. There was not even an in-depth teaching upon creation science, but it was only a statement of fact that evolution is only scientific theory. It seems as though that the secular courts are wanting to keep "truth" in their system, but they are actually blocking truth from being proclaimed. Evolution is only scientific theory, and there are very real gaps that are unexplained by evolutionary science.

I'm not going to write an apologetic for creationism any more than I would write an article defeating evolution. I just want to rant and say that if evolution is to be taught in public schools, that's fine, but they had better contrast it with alternative views. The judges' quote above (which I don't know if he realizes) is that even evolutionary scientists "have bona fide and deeply held beliefs which drive their scholarly endeavors." It's called a presupposition Judge Jones.

Here's a Christian going "ACLU" on the public school system. The secular wing of society wants to proclaim that other sides are not being represented, but they themselves are committing and pushing the same error. It's the secular double standard. If and when I send my children to a public school they can learn about evolution, because honestly it's unintelligible. The science of evolution is riddled with philosophical and scientific difficulties (contrast uniformitarianism and catastrophism).