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I’ve already respondes to some of Art Hobson’s columns....thought you might like to read the last one I did. MissAnne
It’s ironic the day after we celebrate the Declaration of Independence and America’s 232 birthday a column titled, “The Arrogance of Creationism; Malarkey Like Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Classroom” by Art Hobson is published. As a Christian-American I wish to exercise my God given First Amendment rights with this response.
By the title alone, Hobson claims children should be denied the exposure to the germs within The Declaration of Independence, along with much of America’s history. According to Hobson “Creationism is like a mutating virus.” Tell that to Thomas Jefferson who penned the Declaration read to the world on July 4, 1776….
“When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation……
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”…….Jefferson and the Continental Congress unanimously voted for a document that declared our rights and liberties are derived from God, not by government. One would assume by Hobson’s writing he’s willing to disavow himself from his own rights. That’s his choice, but he hasn’t the power to impose his will upon others who believe as our founding fathers.
The Declaration contained a solemn “appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world,” and expressed “a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.”
Mr. Hobson further states that “It’s a sad commentary on superstition in our culture that, when polled, about 50 percent of U.S. adults claim to believe literally in the biblical account of Earth’s creation.” Actually, Mr. Hobson, close to 93 percent of Americans polled believes in God. Interestingly enough, the Hebrew, Christian and Islamic faiths all believe in the Creator God and the Creation thing.
Mr. Hobson writes in his closing paragraph, “Like true believers everywhere, creationists are among the most arrogant of humans, for they assume that they know for sure, how life developed on Earth….” I assume nothing, sir! I don’t know how life developed on earth but the Creator that Thomas Jefferson acknowledged does. God was, after all, the only one there!
According to Hobson our children in public schools couldn’t read, nor be exposed to “the virus” contained in the Treaty of Paris, 1783. John Jay, our First Chief Justice to the Supreme Court, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, our American envoys insisted that the Treaty of Paris begin with: “In the Name of the most Holy and undivided Trinity” before signing the document ending the American Revolution.
Belief in God’s word and His creation isn’t “arrogance of creationism. Nor is the theory of intelligent design “malarkey” or have “no place in the classroom”. Great Scientists have believed in God’s existence and that God was the source of creation. Albert Einstein said, “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” As indicated by Einstein’s quote real scientists study with an open minds eye to all possibilities, including the Creator, God.