As part of my goal of breaking down the misinformation our kids are taught in public school, I have been teaching a series on creation science.
The theory of evolution became prominent in our education system in the late 1950s. Our scientific community went ballistic (no pun intended) when the Russians beat us into space. They reasoned that we were losing the technology war because our kids were being taught the old, archaic creationism in school. So they petitioned President Eisenhower for $1 Billion to change our curriculum to reflect the new, more advanced evolution theory since that was what the Russians were doing.
The effects of that that decision, along with removing prayer from our schools in 1963 have been devastating on our society to the point where I begin to ask who REALLY won the Cold War. Ronald Reagan may have given us the tactical victory, but it seems the battle for the soul of America began almost 40 years earlier and still goes on today.
If you look at graphs relating to drugs, violence, teen pregnancy and suicide you see a hockey stick that started its swift upward trend around 1963.
Why am I teaching the kids about these things? I teach it because as believers, they need to not only know the truth but know why the things they are being taught is false.
The United States Treasury Department trains their workers to spot counterfeit bills by never showing them one. All they know is the truth so that when presented with a forgery, they recognize it immediately. Unfortunately our children are exposed the the forgery on a daily basis in their schools. So we must explain why it is a forgery and help them learn more about the truth.
We have discussed evidence supporting the six day creation and the age of the earth being as young as 6000 years instead of the many billions of years that they are taught. We've been looking at many pieces of true scientific evidence that support the idea that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
I have made it very clear to the kids every single week that my goal is not for them to go to school and argue with teachers or other students. Those arguments are pointless. It takes far more faith to believe that we all came from a rck soup that somehow got some energy inserted and developed from single-cell beings to complex humans than to believe in God and His creation account. Therefore, Big Bang and evolution theory are just as much religion as Christianity or Judaism. Therefre it is pointless to argue religion.
Instead I want them to know the truth. I share that I am certainly NOT an expert in science. But I do not have to be. If I am presented with what someone is calling science, no matter how much sense it makes, if it doesn't line up with the Word it is not the truth. So it really comes down to knowing the truth.
As an underlying theme to this entire series we have been considering the four most important questions in life:
1. Who am I and what am I worth?
2. Where did I come from?
3. Why am I here?
4. Where do I go when I die?
Whether you have a creationist worldview or a secular/evolutionist world view will radically change your answers to these four questions. You can see how an evolutionist would answer those questions and how those views have, unfortunatley, shaped our society. We need young believers to know the truth and live the truth.
This week we will look at how creation and evolution are exact polar opposites on almost every important issue.
