I had fun with this. When I read this article, I immediately thought "Wow! This whole thing could be rewritten from my perspective, without too many changes!" The writer of the original article does not understand that he subscribes to a belief, but thinks he's onto "real science" that must be taught to all children everywhere.
So I did rewrite it, from my own perspective. Thing is, I admit that my perspective is coming from my belief. HERE is the original article. Mine is below.
From whence all science flows
Public Schoolers Who Don´t Learn Science Shouldn´t Receive a Diploma
There are many, many things I find dubious about the practice of compulsory education in our public schools. I wonder how a teacher can possibly provide the individualized education in a mass student setting that a parent can give their own child at home. And I can´t help but think that these public schooled students, of whom there are several million in the United States, are being robbed of a crucial formative experience by not being taught home where they belong, by loving parents, with their options wide open for life, learning and academics. They are being robbed of a crucial formative experience by attending school with other people who are ONLY their age and being forced to interact with a diverse group of peers in a very negative social setting where bullying, drugs, violence and sexual harassment is a constant, not to mention the teachers who are lusting after their students.
Most disturbing is the virulent strain of the religion of secular humanism that is found in the lessons being taught public schooled children, especially in the United States. ALL public schools teach under the banner of secular humanism, where God is not allowed. This is no big secret.
The area of study most affected by the secular humanistic bent of compulsory education in the U.S. is science. The religion of the guy who wrote the textbook might not matter a whole lot when you´re studying geometry or reading Romeo and Juliet, but it comes into play in a big way when you hit high school-level biology. The public schools who get their biology curriculum from secular, humanistic sources are not teaching their children science. They are giving them a religious lesson in secular humanism.
Instead of creation, which IS the keystone of the life sciences from the beginning of time, public schooled students are taught evolution — more or less as described in Darwin’s “The Origin of the Species.” That somehow by chance, a big bang set off a reaction that was the beginning of life, with virtually no good explanation as to how this came about. Only wild guesses. From there, life began, and man evolved from pond scum. When he needed fins to swim, they came along eventually. It is not explained how survival was possible when evolving from one to the other. For example, until evolution supposedly fine tuned the disc in the spinal column of a woman, it is unknown how she was able to survive, since she could not keep balance until evolution engineered this change.
Evolution is based upon assumptions, and cannot be tested according to the rules of “good science.” There are big problems with dating methods that are not discussed. Evolution has been thoroughly discredited, and evidence that had been used to “prove” evolution has since been found to be incorrect. It isn´t science and it should never be taught as such.
But it is taught as science to millions of children and teenagers all over the country. Worse yet, all public schools are empowered by their state governments to grant high school diplomas to students who have completed the required courses, with more attention paid to the title of a given course rather than the content. How can the education of a student instructed in evolution possibly be considered equivalent to that of one taught legitimate science? Evolution cannot be legitimate since it cannot be tested, and is only based upon assumptions.
A "Statement of Purpose" of public education so to speak, is given in quotations below:
(all taken from this website)
In 1930, Charles Francis Potter authored HUMANISM, A NEW RELIGION, in which he boasted: “Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism and every American public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?”
Paul Blanshard “I think the most important factor leading us to a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is 16 tends to lead toward the elimination of religious superstition. The average child now acquires a high school education, and this militates against Adam and Eve and all other myths of alleged history.”
Textbooks followed this same philosophy, as in the early 1970s, PERSPECTIVES IN UNITED STATES HISTORY informed students that “the God of the Judeo-Christian tradition was a god worshipped by desert folk…clearly man-created.”
Morris Storer (director of the American Humanist Association 1975-1980) declared in his book HUMANIST ETHICS (1980) that “a large majority of the educators of American colleges and universities are predominantly humanists, and a majority of the teachers who go out from their studies in colleges to responsibilities in primary and secondary schools are basically humanists, no matter that many maintain a nominal attachment to church or synagogue for good personal, social or practical reasons.”
John Dunphy’s prize-winning essay was published in THE HUMANIST (January-February 1983), and proclaimed that “the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom…between the rotting corpse of Christianity…and the new faith of humanism…(and) humanism will emerge triumphant.”
Secular humanistic “Clergy in the Classroom” would be putting it mildly.
If a government school wants to hand out legitimate accredited diplomas it must teach legitimate science, and explain evolutionary biology to be an unproven theory based upon assumptions, and assert its flaws. In addition, it must teach creation as a viable theory as well, also based upon the assumption of God’s existence and power in creation.
The religious beliefs of public school teachers are irrelevant to the issue. Evolution is not science. While scientists debate this to the death, the fact is that they can never deny that their “beliefs” are based upon assumptions unproven. There has never been a single paper published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal demonstrating that any of the assumptions can truly be relied upon, nor can they be proven. How can one ever prove that all things as they are, are indeed as they have always been? It is the very definition of an exploded hypothesis. Secular Humanists are free to believe that the world came into being exactly as Darwin tells it, but their belief does not refute the impartially observed, irrefutable facts.
To give this a bit more proportion, imagine that you have a student attending public school and you learn that he or she is being taught in history class that American Indians are the descendants of a lost tribe of Israelites migrating to the continent thousands of years ago, or that the Holocaust is a Zionist myth, or in math class that the precise value of π is 3. Would your judgment be that your child was receiving a suitable historical or mathematical education? I think most reasonable parents would say no. The same standards should apply to science as to history and math.
The education of children is essential to the survival and positive progress of human society. Children should be taught (ideally by their parents who love them) to read and write, to understand the basic principles of mathematics, and to understand and appreciate the beauty and complexity of God’s creation through science. If you want your children to go far above academics, and find eternal purpose, you will also want to teach your child about salvation through Jesus Christ, the flood of Noah, and all of the great truths to be captured in God’s written Word. They should know the Word of God, and the God of the Word. You have, and should always have, that freedom. It´s the birthright of every human being.
A high school diploma, on the other hand, isn´t a birthright. It´s something that must be earned. The states have the right and the responsibility to award those diplomas only to students who have adequately completed their education. That group should not include anyone whose science studies omit the truth about evolutionary biology’s flawed theory based upon assumption, creation science as a viable theory, or a literal reading of the Bible. Those students—be they public schoolers, homeschoolers or attendees of religious private schools—have been cheated, and before they get to graduate, their misguided teachers should have to make good.
Good reading:
Monkey Business: The True Story Of The Scopes Trial (Hardcover)
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