Clearly, pastors and church members in the pre-Civil War United States who used God's Word to justify the practice of slavery were living in sin. For whether then or today, Scripture clearly considers any slavery that undercuts the value or dignity of any person as rebellion against God’s lordship, a violation of God’s law, and a denial of God’s love for every single person made in His image.
David Platt

Evolution Useful In Education

Evolution Useful In Education

Evolution – Useful In Education?

EDUCATION

The science classroom is another area where we continue to see the uselessness of the evolutionary model. There is no area in the study of biology where this concept is necessary or the least bit helpful. One can learn all we know about the aforementioned fields of bacteriology, immunology, and embryology, as well as cytology, botany, physiology,, genetics, and any others, without a mention of evolution.

Take the area of genetics, for example. All the well-established laws of inheritance, as well as all the careful observations of science, are perfectly compatible with the creation hypothesis.

Kinds of organism
have always been observed to produce like kinds, without exception. Any unexpected genetic changes in the inheritance pattern of an organism, which cannot be explained by normal laws of inheritance, are usually negative or harmful, never beneficial to the organism. Evolution demands millions of these beneficial changes which have never been observed.

Even the natural selection theory (survival of the fittest), which is much heralded by evolutionists, fits the creation model better. Natural selection works to eliminate weaker organisms which have accumulated too many negative changes, thus preventing significant change in the identity of the kind of organism. So the more we learn about inheritance, the more we see that all the observations and laws of genetics are working to keep a frog a frog and a chicken a chicken, and not to turn a frog or a chicken into some other organism, as evolution claims.

It is not wonder that Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist for the British Museum, spoke of evolutionary ideas as “anti-knowledge” (5).

Evolution, at best, may have been though of as a benign assumption in the scientific world, but in recent years we have come to realize that frequently the basic presuppositions of evolutionary thinking have actually been a malignancy retarding true scientific discovery and preventing biological research from efficiently meeting the needs of mankind in many areas.

Creation with plan and purpose, on the other hand, provides an excellent basis for solving problems in the real world of scientific research. So it seems that one of the best things scientists could do for their research, and for the needy world would be to develop a foundational attitude like that of the great 17th-century physical astronomer, John Kepler, who said that he was merely “thinking God’s thoughts after Him.”

References:

  1. Denton, Michael, “Puzzle of the Ancient Wing, Man Alive Series”
  2. Vartanian, Aram, Dictionary of History of Ideas. Vol.IV p. 307
  3. Easton, Thomas A. and Rischer, Carl E., Bioscope, p. 13, 14
  4. Vartanian, Aram, op cit, pp. 311
  5. Patterson, Colin, as quoted by Sunderland, L. and G. Parker, “Evolution?