“The widespread movement in recent years toward the establishment of new private Christian schools has been stimulated largely by the failure of the public schools to maintain academic and philosophic objectivity.”
Those words are the introduction to “Scientific Creationism” written by Dr. Henry Morris in 1974. Perhaps with President Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education, the academic shackles restraining our children from “academic and philosophic objectivity” might at last be thrown off.
DeVos thinks education money should allow the parents to decide the best educational medium for their children – government or private; Christian or secular. Tennesseans should welcome the change. Many of the problems began when evolution, more of a philosophical theory than an objective scientific one, replaced the creation account in Genesis. Fortunately, the truth is “evolving.”
For instance, the recent movie “Is Genesis History” compiles fascinating interviews with doctoral researchers in astronomy, geology, biology, paleontology, archeology and many other fields that compellingly support the creation narrative. I sat in awe as professors examined fossils, rock compositions, the angles of rock fissures and surrounding geological evidence in nearby states to make the case that the Grand Canyon, instead of being formed over millions of years, as we’ve been taught, very well could have been formed in only a few weeks by a massive wall of flooding waters generating incredible pressures.
Unfortunately, such evolving research is withheld from our children in favor of the more philosophical and unscientific theory of evolution. Since the 1925 Scopes Trial in nearby Dayton, evolution has been taught in our schools as if it were fact instead of theory. Those who disagree are portrayed as unintelligent, close-minded Christian fools. Who wants to be one of those people?