Evolve This!

Belief in evolution -- required for college admission?

You already know that the culture war is only heating up. And that it is really a war between two worldviews: Christianity versus secular humanism. At a foundational level, the debate is between these two factions: those who accept God as the Creator of life versus those who believe that natural processes are responsible for life. Either man is created in the image of God -- and accountable to his Creator, or man is an animal -- and answerable to no one but himself.

In a November 11 edition of the influential British secular magazine "New Scientist," there was a scathing attack on the homeschooling movement. For example:

"These students are part of a large, well-organised movement that is empowering parents to teach their children creationist biology and other unorthodox versions of science at home, all centred on the idea that God created Earth in six days about 6000 years ago."

So, the major argument presented against homeschooling in the US and Britain is that most of the parents teach their children the biblical account of creation. The secularists recognize that if the account of creation in the Bible is true, then Christian doctrine and morality are also true -- and that humans are accountable to their Creator God (who is the absolute authority in all things). Therefore, people who deny they are responsible to a Creator -- and who demand that morality be relative and lobby for the legalization of abortion, “gay” marriage, etc. -- are often intolerant of those (i.e., biblical Christians) who oppose them.

Yes, the secularists are worried. They are concerned because a minority of our young people -- many of whom have shown they excel in their studies -- are being taught that they are responsible to a Creator . . . and that evolution isn’t true.

And as this New Scientist article makes so clear, the creation/evolution debate is at the core of the battle between Christianity and secular humanism . . . . The article ominously hints at the need to give special tests to homeschooled students . . .

And what tests do secular universities need to carry out? Well, they are to determine if students believe in creation and have a Christian worldview! And if this is so, they would be denied access to secular universities.

Now, you might say that this is far-fetched. It wouldn't happen. Well, it is happening. There’s a court case right now over this very situation. Some students from Christian schools are being denied entrance to state-run universities in California.

The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), in its fall issue of "Legal Legislative Update," reported that:

"The University of California (UC) represents 10 university campuses such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego. It has apparently decided that it will not accept new private-school course submissions for core curriculum subjects if they are based on the science textbooks [Note: the texts were pictured in the ACSI update -- some of the same kinds of Christian school textbooks that were referred to in the New Scientist article] …

. . . UC did not have any objective evidence that students from religious schools are deficient in science when they arrive for their freshman year of college. The UC representatives indicated that there was no problem with the material facts in the [Christian] textbook -- that if the Scripture verses that begin each chapter were removed the textbook would likely be approved for the science lab course requirement . . . .

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