So called “creationism” is about “Creation” and the “so called science, “evolution” is a theory. It is a lie to teach a theory as a fact, true science is not a lie, it is based on facts.
Back in 1953 (I began my freshman year) they introduced in freshman Geology as saying: “Evolution” was in harmony with the Bible in the order of creation! A sneaky way to get it taught as a fact, not theory!
Baby, we have come a long way! (The wrong way, just look at the facts).
Martin Luther said a few hundred years ago: “Public schools will become the gates of hell if the Bible is not taught.”
Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the youngest signers of the Declaration of Independance,the first treasurer of the United States, wrote the first Chemistry book in America said: “The Bible should be taught in our public schools, for the good of the students and the nation.”
Just look back at the founders of Yale,Harvard,Princton, etc. and the purpose of founding those great Universities.
I have learned to love:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which were seen were not made of things which do appear.” (Hebrews 11:1-3)
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him(God): for he that cometh to God must believe that He(God)is, and that He(God)is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him(God).” (Hebrews 11:6)
The scientific reasoning that explains how an machine weighing hundred of tons can go hurtling through the air thousands of feet off the ground is known as the theory of flight. Shall we stop teaching that since, by your definition, it is a lie to teach a theory as fact?
I absolutely agree with you that education must not be separated from the scriptures. It is a philosophy that I applied to every minute of my children's homeschool day.
However....One of the fundamental principles of Christianity is free will and the freedom to choose. ( Do you remember the painting of Christ knocking at the door. There is no handle on the outside of the door. It is the person, himself, who must open the door from the inside.)
So....The solution is to eliminate government owned and run schools and move to a completely private system of K-12 education . Parents must be free to choose the school that will best supports what is taught in the home.
Our earliest government schools offered to the students a generic and lukewarm Protestantism. It had to be generic and lukewarm in order to appease the many Christian sects of the time.
Well....We **know** what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!
Fundamentally, it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a religiously, culturally, and politically neutral education. It is axiomatic. Therefore...When government owns and run schools it will **establish** the religious worldview of the most politically powerful and undermine the worldview of the politically weak. And....The taxpayer is under the threat of police force to pay for establishment of the government's NON-neutral religious, cultural, and political worldview.
ALL government schools were, are now, and always will be, a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination.
Atheistic Marxism and Islam are our nation's most immediate threat.
The best defense against godless Marxism and Islam is to have a population of citizens who are completely prepared to philosophically and spiritually defend their **specific** Judeo Christian beliefs. That depth of religious education and spiritual development can never happen in a government school that ( at best) would offered up a sprinkle of prayer and scripture in the morning or feed its students a generic and lukewarm pap of Christianity.
ONLY in private schools could a child receive the **depth** of education he needs to stare down both godless Marxism and Islam.