North End Church of Christ

By: Dan Kessinger, Via St. Marys Bulletin, 3/16/03

A few weeks ago, WV adopted a much more aggressive policy advocating the evolution myth. In an interview with the Parkersburg News, one local Science teacher made a series of misleading and irrelevant statements about the entire mess. These claims are typical of the controversy in general. The push for this new policy (more aggressive evolution indoctrination) began with a recent report by Lawrence Lerner in which West Virginia was given an “F” in the teaching of evolution. When considering any education subject, people feel it necessary to issue a grade. Letter grades are supposed to reflect a standard, but in such issues, they are little more than cheap propaganda. A real “F” means one has not successfully completed an assignment. These kinds of “F”s only mean “I don’t like this.” Assigning letter grades to policies is exactly the opposite of a real standard.

Upon receiving our “F,” we are supposed to panic or be ashamed. But truth also gets an “F” in this study, and you need to understand why we failed. Teaching creation would certainly have been failed, but no state teaches this truth. Fairly presented both arguments gets a failing grade as well, but West Virginia does not have this policy. We earned an “F” by not being demanding and oppressive enough in the teaching of evolution fantasy. I wonder what grade the Soviet Union got on the teaching of evolution? I believe they earned straight A’s, since they demanded agreement with evolution as a government policy.

The local teacher indicated that students became more interested in evolution when confronted with fossils. But fossils do not teach evolution, rather they are props for incorrect evolutionary conclusions. One must interpret evidence, and the interpretations of evolutionists are far fetched at best. To simply haul out a fossil and proclaim, “Look, evolution is a fact” is either smoke and mirrors or fanaticism. The fossil record does not reveal what children are being told, and the most striking feature of the fossil record is omitted: the missing parts. Where are the transition life forms? If life evolved, transitions should outnumber recognizable life forms by millions of times. Evolutionists are so desperate to find transitions that they have made a number of embarrassing blunders, pre-maturely labeling fossils “transitions,” which are later shown to be nothing of the kind (the archaeopteryx, for instance). If man evolved over millions of years, where are the pre-humans, aside from evolution’s frequent frauds? Students do not believe evolution because of fossils, unless they are misinformed of their significance. The fossil record gets an “F” in proving evolution.

The interviewee said that many science teachers were religious people. No doubt, they are, and this if foolishness in two ways. First, it is an attempt to stereotype all scientists as evolutionists. They are not. This is not a battle of scientists against religious fanatics, but an argument of the interpretation of data. Yes, the Bible agrees with the creationist’s point of view, but we are not interested in converting a science class into a Bible school.

On the same subject, he claimed that there are many religious people among the ranks of science teachers (in her mind, read “evolutionists”) is less than significant. The point is not whether an evolutionist can be religious, but if evolution is true. We examine the faith of such a person, and we may draw conclusions. One unavoidable conclusion is that his “faith” is not valid. No matter how religious a person feels, he cannot be pleasing to God while rejecting God’s account of facts. Such a faith earns an “F.”

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. (Heb. 11:6)