PLACEMARKER
Posted on 03/12/2006 1:58:44 PM PST by balch3
(AgapePress) - A Christian evangelist known as "Dr. Dino" advocates a three-pronged approach to countering public school textbooks that use faulty evidence for Darwinian evolution.
Dr. Kent Hovind says instead of trying to get intelligent design or creationism taught in public schools, the main objective of critics of evolution should be requiring accuracy in science textbooks. Hovind, the founder of Florida-based Creation Science Evangelism, notes many states already have laws requiring textbooks to be accurate -- and if they do not, he says, teachers should have the right to correct any inaccuracies in those books.
"Jesus lived in the Roman Empire and did not spend any time trying to change the Roman Empire. He just changed people, one at a time," Hovind points out. "And I think the grassroots approach of changing people is bulletproof -- I mean, there's nothing you can do to stop that."
He continues, saying the "second level of attack" would involve changing teachers. "Get the teachers converted or at least knowledgeable on the topic, where they know what the truth is," he suggests. "Then it doesn't matter what the textbook says, because the teacher's not going to teach it anyway -- or the teacher's going to teach it and expose the error."
Hovind says a third and more difficult plan of attack would be to change existing textbook requirements at the state level. But in that aspect, he laments, Darwinists are beating Christians to the punch.
"The atheists are really good at getting involved in the committees that select the state standards for education," he says. "Now, you can get five or ten atheists in your state that actually control what everybody is taught."
Once those individuals get on the committee, he says, "They'll vote -- they'll lobby the senators and representatives, and they'll say, 'We want you to vote in this legislation that requires the following things to be our state standards for education.'"
Later this month, Hovind will be holding a two-day seminar at the Pennsylvania high school a federal judge recently barred from mentioning intelligent design in biology class.
aaaargh-ping
Progess is being made on a weekly basis.
Is "pay your taxes" one of the prongs?
Evolutionists, as opposed to true scientists, are not interested in seeking Truth, instead they are committed to manipulating facts and evidence to conform to their circular reasoning and predefined conclusions.
Get teachers converted to what?
I like Hovind's science, but he has said things like America was involved in 9/11 that put me off. I listen to his radio show, however (although the connection cuts off frequently).
I have never seen a better example of classic projection. Sigmund Freud would be proud.
How is it Evolutionists are atheists? Even the Vatican isn't against evolution... are they atheists too?
What about those who claim that the Earth is round? They're very stubborn too.
Umm. Er-r? Wazzat?
Maybe I'm just iggerant.
Oh great. We've got someone here that thinks science should be guided by religious prejudice. Shameful. Just shameful.
God: "I refuse to prove my existence. For proof denies faith. And without faith, I am nothing."
Man: "But the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear", God says, "I hadn't though of that." And vanishes in a poof of logic.
"Well that was easy", says Man, and for an encore, goes onto prove that black is white, and gets himself killed in the next zeebra crossing.
Common evolutionist ploy:
Creationism = Geocentrism
Accuracy? Like people and dinosaurs coexisting?
Sorry, no science here. Nothing to see. Move on.
Let me fix that for you.
I like Hovind's magic...
That's better.
Wouldn't want the keepers of the truth to be challenged. Nosiree. If it's organized matter performing specific functions we dare not even utter the words "intelligent design" lest the Church of Organized Matter and Intelligent Design be exposed and its treacherous plans for science be found out.
Next up for Intelligent Designers:
- The World is Still Flat
- Dinosaurs: Evil Myth
- Euthanasia is Murder, but Capital Punishment is A-OKAY!
Yep, killing murderers is A-OKAY.
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