Ignorance is a Two Way Street
Hi: Yesterday, I was reading an article on the internet which was blasting those who publish text books for home schooling children for not teaching evolution as a fact. And the claim was that they were creating a class of young people who would not be able to compete on a college level. Now having taught in a private Christian school, which was outcome based not social based, my experience was that those students were much better prepared than most public school student. Public schools often will pass a student on to the next grade level for social reasons, which means because the student is a year older, they should automactically move on to the next level. Christian based schools require an 80% knowledge level of the subject before the student can advance. This way the student can continue to learn at a more advance level. But when a student is advanced for purely social reasons, they soon lose the ability to learn as they have no foundation upon which to build. The Christian textbooks I have worked with did porvide the students with information concerning the theroy of evolution, but they taught it as just that, a theroy which cannot be proven as a fact. When someone claims that evolution is a proven fact, as did some who made comments on the article, they are in fact proving their own ignorance. The fact that people can be arrogant and rude does not prove that they are correct in their statements, it just means that they are arrogant and rude. Most people do not give much thought to how complicated a living cell actually is. Even if somehow by accident one could have all the right chemicals together, you would still have to get them in the right amounts and order and they would still have to be programed to reproduce, convernt matter into energy and energy into matter. And since the program information would have to be possessed before the action of conversion could take place, that in itself indicates intelligent design. You can have all the parts to a computer and even have them hooked up in the correct order, but without the programing, it will never work. Does anyone really believe that such programing could occur by random chance? And occur not just once but thousands and thousands of times in order to have a comlete living organism? Is it such a terrible strain to give thought to at least the possiblility of intelligent design. It seems to most rational people to be reasonable to believe that if there is a plan then there must be a planner. That is all that the creationist is striving to show. This great issue of Christians being a people who live by faith is such a stupid thing to try and make seem as foolishness. Everyone lives by faith. It doesn't matter if you are a Christian or the biggest heathen to have ever lived. You accept money in the form of the currency of some government and yet that paper is actually worthless in and of itself. It only represents your faith in the ability of that government to give it worth. You drink water that is treated by someone you have never met and with methods of which you are totally ignorant and yet by faith you believe it to be safe. You accept advance from someone you actually know little about and get medicine from someone you don't know at all and the name of which you can't pronounce and yet you take it, believing it will help make you healthy. That's faith! I simply choose to put my faith in the One who has a 10,000 year old record of keeping His promises and proving His love for me. I'm really not sure why the faith of an atheist is suppose to be better than mine. Thanks for your time this week and if you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them. Pastor Bill