The deception of evolutionary and psychological theories.
I was watching the Disney movie Santa Buddies with my children and in the movie SANTA SITS ON A GOLDEN THRONE AND LATER IN THE MOVIE A CHILD KNEELS AND PRAYS TO SANTA> Since when did Santa sit on a golden throne and children pray to him? My children are taught in school to use Common Era and Before Common Era instead A.D. and B.C. (Before Christ). Here in Hawaii there was a cross on U.S Army property and the atheists fought and won to have it removed. How is it that the enemy is advancing in American culture, schools, and government? I believe these are symptoms of an American idol worship of evolutionary science and psychology.
In 1975, Ken Ham was a science teacher and saw students lose interest and stop believing the Bible when evolution science started being taught as fact. “Do you know what these students are being taught in most of their classes? That they’re just animals that evolved ultimately from some primeval soup millions of years ago. They are being indoctrinated to believe that evolution is scientific fact. Growing up in a world full of wonderful technology, they have a great respect for real science. They don’t realize that evolution is not observable, repeatable science.
So to them, the Bible is just an outdated religious book. After all, they are taught how the solar system formed by itself from a dust cloud over millions of years, that the earth is billions of years old, and the fossil record is the history of the evolution of life. They are shown pictures of ape-men, considered to be their ancestors. In history, they hear of “primitive man” going through a stone age in this onward, upward evolutionary process.” (Evangelism for the new millennium, Ken Ham)
I believe God put all those genealogies in the Bible so that there would be a record to trace us all back to Adam. This link is important thus I believe the genealogies to be accurate and totaling 6000 years since the birth of Adam. I can take this all on faith but I think it’s important that we also have creation science to hold up against the evolution science theories. We have to believe that Genesis is fact and evolution science is not. “The first book of the Bible relates to us the account of the biological, geological, astronomical, and anthropological history of the universe—and this history is confirmed by observational science in genetics, biology, geology, and astronomy. Because this history as revealed in the Bible is true, then the message of the Christian gospel (concerning salvation from our sin of rebellion in the first man Adam) is true” (Slain from the foundation of the world, Ken Ham)
I’m not a man of science but it’s easy even for the layman to see the effects in our society, our schools, and in state and federal government. Pastor Dr. Rick Bartosik worked as a prison chaplain in the 1970s and tells how the prison was transformed and the inmates put up a cross in the frontyard. He said they started a successful sex offender rehab program based on six Christian books but then in the 1980s the state psychologists moved into the prison system. I work for the Army and recently I watched a training video where the military chaplain referred soldiers considering suicide to a psychologist.
MY POINT IS THAT THE DECEPTION OF EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE HAS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCEPTANCE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN PLACE OF THE CLERGY> Americans have turned away from God to the false idols of ’science’ and we can see it happening in the schools in the 1970s and the government in the 1980s and even the churches today. One Christian friend is doing a marriage study in his prayer group and he pointed out how psychological terms were used instead of Biblical ones. So why does it matter? Because psychology is the road to strengthening self whereas Christianity is the road to dying to self. There is just as much a problem with mixing psychological theories with Christianity as there is mixing evolutionary theories. We can all the see the outcomes of evolutionary science and psychology on our culture, our children’s education, and our government.



June 6th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Since it is apparent that you inexorably believe that God created all living organisms and that the bible is the word of this supposed, omniscient creator, I won’t even bother debating the issue of evolution with you, as it would be utterly futile and pointless. But I will say this. While I agree that the teaching of Evolution in public highschools as a verifiably scientific fact has deterred many children from subscribing to religion, Christianity, particularly the more traditional, conservative forms, has done nothing to attract children to religion. Evolutionary science is pulling children away from religion about as much as Christianity is pushing them away from it. Christian religions seemingly engender black and white, dogmatic, rather than critical, thinking in their followers, and adolescents, by their very nature, are rebellious, inquisitive, and inclined to think outside the box. Now, obviously, not all religions fit the description I have provided above, but in the eyes of most adolescents, including me when I was in highschool, religion is for narrow minded, bible-clenching zealots who condemn homosexuality, stem cell research, and abortion and who believe that it is their God endowed duty to tell others how to live their lives.
It is incumbent upon you, not the public schools, to educate children about religion and to dispel any myths that may be associated with it. You alluded to producing “creation science” to counter the evolutionary science offered in schools. That’s a start. Although, if you ask me, I think “religious or creationist science” is a bit of an oxymoron.
Anyway, the point that I am trying to get across here is that perhaps you and your religious counterparts should look within the Christian organization first for aspects that may be discouraging children from endorsing religious beliefs before blaming secular scientists.
June 7th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Hi Justin,
Thanks for your comment.
I held the very same views you have about Christianity only a few years ago. Here is a blog I wrote after my eyes were opened:
http://www.typeandculture.com/?page_id=100
One of our church advertisements for visitors asks the question: Aren’t all Christians hypocrites? And the reply is there is always room for one more.
We are far from perfect but we do follow a perfect God. I am very sensitive to the shortcomings in the church and especially American Christianity. If you read over my blogs for the last few years I think you will find I have more to say about Christians than non-believers.
There is actually a huge body of creation science, that I only discovered recently. Check out Answers in Genesis: http://www.answersingenesis.org/. In their creation science research they provide plenty of critical thinking that is attractive to both children and adults. The problem is that not many people are aware of this body of research.
Blessings,
Brent
June 8th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Hi Brent,
Thanks for the links. I will be sure to check them out.