To the Kentucky Department of Education,
As a citizen of Kentucky, I boldly ask you to reject the common core Science curriculum.
There
are several reasons. But the reason that sticks out the most in my
personal judgment, is the initiative to inculcate our children with the
idea of evolution as fact.
Now
I am well aware of the historic teaching in the public schools of
evolution as theory. And I believe we have paid a high price in our
society for indoctrinating this idea to our children. (plagues of drug
abuse, suicide and dissolving family units come to mind)
Yet going further into this ideology will have further consequences upon our peoples.
The justification for rejecting this being taught proved simply in stating that “evolution as fact" is a lie.
A
“fact” by nature is something observed. Where evolution by nature
simply has not been observed. When your curriculum discusses the
“history of the earth”. There was no human who observed the History of
the earth.
All
consistent Historical records in most all ancient civilizations does
not exceed 5,000 years. Except the Bible whose records exceed 6,000
years.
History
has no ancient Darwinian evolutionist. Among the ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosophers, the materialists were decisively rejected.
Which
leaves the pagan explanation of history along side the judo-christian
history. The Pre-Socratic philosophers once again did society a service
of dismissing the pagan cosmologies as simply irrational mythologies.
The
Jews, however stood firm in their convictions of the Bible being the
true history of the World. This is evidence by the works of Flavius
Josephus. A Jewish historian paid by the roman government to give an
accurate account, whom confirmed in His history the accuracy of the
scriptures.
And
so we have only observed the realm of history in terms of a few
thousand years. Not even close to 1 million years. Let alone observing
the existence of 4.6 Billion years or 15 billion years.
Once science advocates speculate beyond what they have directly observed, they commit the logical fallacy of induction.
You
have no authority to claim knowledge of that which exceeds your
observations. If I take a spoon of marbles out a gallon of marbles. I
may notice 9 red marbles and 1 blue marble. Yet that doesn’t prove that
90% of the gallon container is the same percentage.
Once
a physicist commits the inductive fallacy they have left hard science
for meta-physics. Metaphysics is the wall upon which the house of
religion is built. Religion delves into the realm of mystery. Even
Charles Darwin labeled the idea of the origin of species as “that
mystery of mysteries”
So why is their insistence that we place such an irrational framework on our children?
I take a step back into history and step into the shoes of the famous defender of creationism William Jennings Bryan.
Bryan
was not ordinary lawyer, he defended AND WON this case(the scopes trial) for the same
reason He became the democratic Nominee for the president of the United
States of America. He was a defender of the impoverished. William
Jennings Bryan Boldly railed against the robber barons Rockefeller,
Carnegie and J.P.Morgan
History
is repeating itself. Common core curriculum is controlled exclusively
by big business groups such as Bill Gates. Outsiders are telling public
school families that we must follow the rich man’s elitist religion of
evolution. That we no longer have what the KY constitution says is the
right “to worship almighty God”. Instead this fascist method teaches that
our children are the property of the state. Because religion is now
fact!
On
the contrary my friends we are free and God; not big government has
always given us liberty. We didn’t have to buy it online. The
governments only job is to “secure the blessings” given to us by God and
protect it’s supervisor and King!!
“We the People!”
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Ha! Creationism....couldn't Creationism and Evolution be the same thing????
If there is a god, this god gave us deductive reason to unlock the mysteries of life and evolution is one of those mysteries.
If he did not want to unlock such facts, he would have stopped evolution with the chimpanze.
7th Day Adventist dont believe in going to the hospital. Tht is a religious belief. I want Big Government to take those people treatment against their will.
If god intended humans to just sit idle he would have given us a fish bowl to live in.
If god did not want us on the moon he would have made it impossible to leave the earth's atmosphere wothout being vaporized.
Or man with the knowledge of Satan figured out how to mold reality like clay to our desires. Satan must have created the Internet and everything else after the Bible under Singleton's myopic theories.
I roomed with a meth addict that had the same tell-tale dark circles, dull pallor and rambling logic as do you. Get some help and quit using a fabricated moral authority to defraud your fellow human beings. The factual basis of science can't be challenged by magical thinking, no matter how hard your idiot followers choose to believe.
"If there is a god. This god...."
This is irrational. Your speculating a figment of your imagination. My God is the one True living God of the Bible. Named Jehovah.
I encourage you to read my April article. "God as a historical character"
God is among other things, a fact.
Mystery is a religious category. If the government can ban teaching intelligent design for discussing religious categories, they must then ban the teaching of evolution. It's that simple.
If you are foolish enough to live with a drug addict, I fail to see why you are supposed to be an authority on truth.
Psalm 1:1 "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly, nor stand eth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."
Mock and scoff. Yet, you are not going to Change the truth. Living with other liars only preserves your demise. Repent.
Luke 13:5
Mike I think your history is a little rusty. Bryant wasn’t the defendant. He was the prosecutor.
A teacher (scopes) was teaching evolution in the class room and bryan successfully proved that the teacher was teaching evolution. (shocking I know)
The teacher received a fine because afterall he did break the law. However, the conviction was later over turned on appeal.
However, the trial showed just how little evidence literal creationism had, and how much evidence evolution had. While achieving national coverage.
So who really won here. The person who proved a science teacher was teaching science giving him a small fine or the person who caused a law to be repealed.
As to evolution causing increased crime…… I think other countries would disagree with that. Considering the more secular countries have vastly lower crime rates than the US. So in short that argument actually works against you.
I think you’ll find poverty rates and other factors more closely correlate with rise and FALL of crime than the teaching of evolution.
I appreciate your willingness to allow dissenting views on your blog. Your speech about the science curriculum shows that you are ignorant about the basic principles and practices of science and scientific inquiry. You say "a fact by nature is something observed," which is indeed a basic principle upon which science is based. However, the main purpose of scientific inquiry is to understand and appreciate how and why nature and the universe exist, in the ways we observe them to be. Facts are only the starting point for science. For example, we observe the facts of gravity--objects fall to the ground, planets orbit the sun--and then science tries to discover what sort of force gravity is, where it comes from, and why it is the way it is. The science of evolution comes from observations about the diversity and connectedness of living species, and the desire to figure out how they came to be that way. No science educator worthy of the name would claim or try to "inculcate" in people's minds the idea that "evolution is a fact." Rather, the goal is to teach what scientists have done in a field such as evolution over the past 150 years -- what they have observed, what experiments they've done, how they think about and interpret their observations and results. There are many things about evolution that are not yet understood, but thanks to the dedication and hard work of scientists, there is a great deal about it that IS known and understood. PLEASE do not, in your ignorance, deny children the opportunity to learn about how science is done and what scientists have accomplished. Please let them think for themselves and form their own conclusions about what is true. That is what the CORE curriculum is about. Isn't that what you have done for yourself?
Hi Timothy Mueller. I'm the same anonymous poster above.
I just wanted to make a quick addition to your post.
Evolution is both fact and theory.
It is a fact that evolution occurs. This can be and has been demonstrated.
What is theory is how it explains the diversity of life on this planet.
I just wanted to bring that up because I think Matt would try to capitalize or be confused by this duality.
Anonymous,
1) my name is not mike
2) I never called bryant a defendant. I called him a defender.
3) I am glad you were into old Hollywood motion pictures.
4) the evidence used at the time of the scopes trial has proven fraudulent.
A. Piltdown man was an orangutan jaw wired(copper wiring) to a human skull cap
B. Embryonic recapitulation and hael's cartoons have been disproved. (see my article "Darwin is dead")
C. Neanderthal man was fully human
D. Java man was an ape skull with a human femur debunk by its own finder
E. Australopithecus africanis was just a baby ape.
All. Failed evidences.
But when you run the media and repeat lies, does it matter?
Drug "experimentation" is a practice enhanced by Darwinism. After all if our bodies are only chemicals then why not?
Look at the hippies, they brought in the ideas.
Of course before them evolutiomists like sigmund Freud were participating in cocaine use.
Timothy meuller
"why the universe exist" is a religious category.
You define science as a religion.
If my religion is removed from the public school systems yours should too.
The universe exists because God made it. If that is not a scientific answer then neither then is "there was absolute nothing and nothing made a "big bang" and here is our universe."
The new curriculum [by the way is not common core I later found out it is a sister program "next generation science standards"] is not teaching evolution as theory anymore!
This is the point, we are losing religious liberty. And we are losing scientific inquiry.
Any major Christian school teaches evolution as theory and then debunks it.
Only difference is that you get research that does not agree with evolution alongside the "evidence" used for it.
For instance have you heard of polonium halos?
Dr. Robert Gentry brought the phenomena of polonium halos as a proof of instantaneous creation. He published it in almost half a dozen peer reviewed articles. Testified of it in the infamous Arkansas creation trial and has repeatedly sent open letters challenging the NAS.
Yet instead of EVER debunking this evidence. Dr. Gentry has been censored from the public. (read his story at www.halos.com)
You see creationist have made tons of discoveries, yet it is our evidence that is silenced from the public.
And by the way, these new science standards are pathetic!!!
Ky kids will not be alloted enough education in physics, chemistry, electronics (also in math they will drop calculus) to move on in science in an college in the state of KY. There will be no remedial courses. So our public schools will fail to produce scientists!!!!
Timothy mueller,
I appreciate your polite manner.
I hope you realize your error of logic.
Science is about present observations.
History is about past observations.
If science does not conform to history, it simply is not factual in that arena.(knowledge of the past)
I encourage you to read my articles
Rock of ages
What the heavens declare
Lets put the canopy back up
And remember in pushing this legislation you are censoring the works of 10,000 scientists in America.
Anonymous,
I am sure you go down the road of using the bait and switch tactic of redefining evolution.
For the record, natural selection is something that every creation science advocate I know affirms. It is even recorded in scripture.
But evolution applies in
Cosmic evolution
Chemical evolution
Macro evolution
Social evolution(include religious evolution)
All of these I oppose.
Natural selection however only seems work I'm the negative.
To Pastor Matt Singleton,
Thank you for your response to my post. I think I misused a comma in one of my sentences, which caused you to misunderstand me. When I said " the main purpose of scientific inquiry is to understand and appreciate how and why nature and the universe exist, in the ways we observe them to be" I meant to say: scientific inquiry aims to understand and appreciate how and why the universe came to exist IN THE WAYS WE OBSERVE IT -- such as, why is the universe expanding, and why is that expansion accelerating? What is at the centers of the galaxies? Why is the moon slowly receding from the earth at the rate of a centimeter per century?
So, we apparently agree on at least one thing, which is that the question of why we and the universe exist (at all) is a religious and philosophical question. It is not relevant to science. You say "the universe exists because God made it." That's fine, but that is not a sufficient answer to questions such as I listed above. And your characterization of the big bang theory as '"there was absolute nothing and nothing made a 'big bang' and here is our universe" is inaccurate. Cosmologists do NOT claim to know what existed before the big bang. Recently, some have proposed a theory that multiple universes existed before the big bang. I find that a fascinating possibility, and I look forward to learning more about that theory.
In my view there is no conflict between science and religion, but there is a clear and important difference between science and religion. That difference needs to be explored and debated as part of a school science curriculum, and the boundaries between them need to be clearly defined and respected by science educators and religious educators.
Sorry MATT.
It might interest you to know that my name is actually Kevin Brown we had discussed things before.
2) Correction noted.
3) Actually I studied the case in school. Read the play and saw the movie.
I also read several articles before I responded.
Including how the law was repealed as unconstitual less than a year after the trial and Scopes conviction as overturned as well.
4) With respect you consider all evidence that contradicts your world view as fraudulent.
and as we discussed before errors made along the way does not mean that all evidence collected before and after is immedatly wrong. Just that over a hundred years ago they didn't have genetic testing and carbon dating.
and FYI the scopes trial was in 1925. So stop with the hippy and drug use nonsense.
More secular countries have fewer problems with drugs and crime than the US does. So your comments on this come off as extremely ignorant and mean spirited and rather bigoted towards your fellow christians.
As to the word evolution. It is you who is using the bate and switch tactic. You are treating the word as if it has only one meaning when in reality it has several.
I mearly explained it to you.
As to creation scientists......
they have been changing there mind for the past 50 years to bring there ideas more inline with Evolution itself. (they just won't use the word).
First it was that none of it occured,
than it was only micro not macro (even though they are the same thing)
,Now the new idea of ID.
Even the most conservative churches are no longer swayed by this.
However, thankyou for summing up your views. You don't like the world evolution and you don't like change. Even though you are a part of it and you benifited from it.
Because I hate to tell you but your very religion evolved from others. You are just the latest offspring of it. Just one that is failing to adapt.
Timothy,
Evolutionists want to have religious dominance over American schools.
They suppress anyone who doesn't agree with their religious assumptions.
The scopes Trial was the theme of freedom of ideas. Now we are no longer allowed to have that freedom.
A popular movie that covers this common occurrence is Ben Stein's movie expelled.
What I am testifying against is the public school system being used to promote atheistic religion. It is simply the opposite of the scopes trial. It is irrational to impposed your religion on people and not even allow alternatives or discussion in America.
You can say that you have a big bang theory to explain the expanding universe. But you would be lying to say you observed it.
So when you "why did the big bang happen?" You are in a place of fantasy. the only scientific question is why is the universe expanding?
You also need to make sure your theories about the past submit to the facts of history. Because history HAS been observed!
if the public schools want to teach evolution as a theory then fine. But it would be more educational to include the history the theories of scientific creationism
And it is quite frankly immoral to teach evolution as observed fact and hide evidence for creation.
kevin brown,
Thank you for identifying yourself.
You could also say in the scopes trial they did not discovery that one cell is composed of 1 trilion parts.
You could also say that darwinism had not had time to fail to come up with a single fossil which could be identified as an intermediate species.
You could also say that they were not aware of the fact that every part of the earth contains the fossils of sea life.
You could also say that they had not discovered polonium halos.
You could also say that they hadn't found out about the inaccuracies of carbon dating.
You could also say that they had not studied the earth's electro magnetic field and how the earth must have been a fireball 20,000years ago.
you could also say that they had not discovered dinosaur blood and cartilage inside a T-rex femur.
Kevin,
You failed to even site your source on the secular crimes issue.
there are many variables involved.
For instance yugoslavia had a lower murder rate under the USSR. Because they were suppressed forced to go without freedom.
My claim was that darwinism was a key factor in the drug trade in america.
Drugs did become popular only after the secularization of the USA.
Give me a reason why these happened with out connection.
Actually the founder of the creation science movement Henry Morris accepted natural selection. Ken Ham accepted it as well. There has been criticism over calling it (micro evolution)but that is it.
I don't know of a single major creationist disagrees.
However you don't want to stop at natural selection being taught. You do want billions of years and evolution from goo to you. Am I correct?
In a wide definition, I believe in Intelligent design. But I definitely do not hold to the old earth creationism view.
However ID played by the rules and should be considered scientific. The point is not theological, it is scientific.
Is there purpose or not?
That will have a huge impact on your understanding of evidence.
if this is not allowed then science doesn't even work! Because you have no right to claim the uniformity of nature. So you can not claim that the scientific laws of any galaxy are the same. You are completely lost as to believe scientific law is permanent.
your worldview becomes utter chaos.
Also the Bible teaches that religions came from the tower of babel incident.I hae debunk the evolving religions theory several times on this blog.
here is a helpful article that touches upon it slightly.
Manuscripts, Translations and the “Perfect Bible”. [Wednesday, April 17, 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/next-generation-science-standards_n_3672418.html
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