The Evolution Indoctrination Continues

Letter to the editor, Columbus Dispatch, Feb. 16, 2006

"The evolution indoctrination continues"

"I believe God created the earth. But creationism isn't science, it's faith." Thus spoke Martha Wise on Feb. 15 before voting with the Ohio Board of Education to permit the indoctrinatation of evolution to continue in our public schools at taxpayer expense. If Mrs. Wise is right and God created the earth, then wouldn't Mrs. Wise be foolish and hypocritical to teach youth that He didn't? Mrs. Wise, listen up: "science" means "knowledge," and the Bible says that the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom (which is the application of knowledge).

Mrs. Wise has made the mistake of letting your opponent misdefine the terms. Only with smoke and mirrors can a lie remain popular for so long. The anti-Creationists limit "science" to the confines of their religion, "naturalism," which only allows naturalistic explanations for phenomena. They reject theism by definition, not based upon any evidence. Likewise, they embrace naturalism by faith, not based upon any evidence. They say that only that which is empirically-verifiable is science: they will only believe what they can sense with their five senses. The question is, which of their senses told them that? Naturalism doesn't even meet its own criteria for truth. They have proclaimed the standard of scientific truth to be the scientific method, and since an intelligent designer cannot be empirically verified by the scientific method, "it belongs in a comparative religion class and not in a science classroom." Yet if the scientific method is the only way to know truth, then the scientific method cannot be true because the validity of the scientific method cannot be confirmed by the scientific method! The reliability of the scientific method assumes things that are religious in nature – the reliability of the laws of nature and the laws of logic, and the immorality of falsifying data. It can be shown that only Christian theism supports the presuppositions of the scientific method. The false religion sanctioned by the Ohio Board of Education cannot even support itself, much less science; it falls from the weight of its own internal contradictions.

What we have failed to see is that all education is inescapably religious and the question before the courts and the American people is, which religion is true? Even atheists worship: they "worship and serve the creature (nature) more than the Creator, who is blessed forevermore" (Romans 1:25). Ohio's Board of Education has given us one more piece of evidence that our nation has abandoned the God of our forefathers and His revelation in the Bible, which truths were taught to American schoolchildren for two hundred years. And you've given us one more reason since Mifflin to home-school.

Patrick Johnston, D.O.
Family Practice, Zanesville, Ohio
www.rightremedy.org