As often held today, science has taken the place of religion in the
contemporary man’s thinking. To be perfectly honest, I largely agree that it
has. However, I disagree that the idea of faith, believing without seeing, is
one which is best left behind in the ages of barbarianism and mysticism. Not
only do I think it not beneficial to try and banish it, in fact I believe it utterly
impossible.
Most anti-theists hold
to science as the sole governor of our natural world and with it seek to answer
the questions as to man’s origin, and purpose or lack thereof. Often they turn
to the Theory of Evolution as the specific lens through which they view the
evidence and see our world. They hold some ideas as certain, though unproven
and indeed not provable, since there is no way to scientifically measure what
cannot be observed. The same is true for all scientific theories and indeed all
logical pursuits. Just as in a dictionary some words must be taken as
inherently understood to begin to define the other words, so in the scientific
method some beginning assumptions must be made to start to formulate other
conclusions, making no science and no thinking truly objective.
There can be no such
thing as a vacuum of belief. It is intellectually damaging and dangerous for
students to be taught that such a vacuum is possible, as evolution is now
masquerading as exactly that. Even if only on the grounds that it is wantonly
deceiving its students and thwarting intellectual honesty it should be removed
from our schools as faulty and replaced with Christianity as our founders
clearly intended.
It is clear from the
recent article in the Wall Street Journal that
our country’s education was at its origin Christian. The authors speak of
Belgium which uses state money to fund religious schools successfully as a good
thing and one which we have sadly gotten away from. In Oklahoma right now, “A
proposed bill…seeks to allow schools to offer ‘an elective course in the
objective study of religion or the Bible’ without fear of legal liability.” Taken
from the article off of huffingtonpost.com,
this suggests a step in the right direction, and something more states should
add to their agenda.
