EWolf writes:
Although Biblical Creation truth is normally taught in church, isn’t it the responsibility of our educational institutions to support it?
If by Biblical Creation truth you mean creationism . . .
No more so than Flat Earth or Geocentrism. Our education institutions supports science that is backed by evidence.
Where there is war there are battles and the battles for the truth of our beginning are intense! The fight is over which is to be considered as fact. The effort to teach evolutionary doctrine to the coming generation as fact directly opposes not only the church that informs of the Biblical word of God by which we all live, but also the Declaration of Independence (DOI) that reinforces what the Bible teaches.
It's a matter of evidence, and creationism lost that fight a long time ago.
Promotion of evolutionary doctrine as fact to the coming generation parallels the brutal efforts to eliminate everything that represents God from American culture.
It is creationists who claim that if evolution is true then God is false. Science doesn't teach that. Apparently, you don't know of the millions of Christians who accept evolution. This is an excerpt from a letter signed by over 15,000 Christian clergy:
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We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God’s good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God’s loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth.
The Clergy Letter Project
Perhaps you should listen to your own Christian brothers and sisters.
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