Saturday, November 14, 2009

 

Eye Problems


Here's a good one*:

"You can't teach creationism or intelligent design without getting into a little bit of trouble in the public schools, which is a shame," said former Green Bay East High School science teacher Jim Kraft of Allouez. "What's being promoted in the public schools is really atheism. … There's the (presumption) that the Earth is millions, billions of years old, and that is really a very subtle attack on the Bible, and on Christianity."

Kraft used to be an evolutionist, but later became a Christian and an adherent to creationist principles. He thinks public schools should teach creationism, and he isn't alone.

If Mr. Kraft's religion requires that the Earth be less than "millions, billions of years old," then teaching the scientific facts about the age of the Earth is hardly "subtle." If, on the other hand, the evidence for the age of the Earth is just a "presumption," given the breadth of the evidence, from physics, astrophysics, geology, etc., etc., then all of science must be a presumption in Mr. Kraft's topsy-turvy Omphalos-driven world and you have to wonder about the commitment he ever had to teaching science.

There's more:

Kraft doesn't think someone can be a Christian and an evolutionist.

"It really boils down to the authority of Scripture," he said. "Are you going to believe God, or are you going to believe man?"

For myself, the answer is easy. I'm going to believe the men and women with the evidence over the men who wrote down the Bible and, without any evidence, claimed it came from God.

But it's funny that Mr. Kraft apparently thinks the Pope ain't Catholic since, as the article points out, the Catholic Church's position is that evolution and faith are not incompatible.

If those blinders on Mr. Kraft get any tighter, he won't be able to see at all.

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* "Black and white: Nearly 150 years after Darwin, creationists and evolution theorists hold tight to their arguments," Green Bay Wisconsin Press-Gazette, November 15, 2009.
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Link - Posted by John Pieret @ 10:51 PM
Comments:
Science teacher Jim Kraft of Allouez. "What's being promoted in the public schools is really atheism. … There's the (presumption) that the Earth is millions, billions of years old, and that is really a very subtle attack on the Bible, and on Christianity."

No, it is more like (his brand of) Christianity suffers collateral damage from science's attack on ignorance.
# posted by Anonymous Ferrous Patella : 3:18 PM
 
Let's see ... ignorance = his brand of Christianity ...

Sounds about right.
# posted by Blogger John Pieret : 8:39 PM
 
Funny, as a Christian, I believe God and God's universe screams at the top of its lungs that it is billions of years old and that we evolved by natural selection and genetic drift (and maybe a few others mechanisms thrown in there) acting on variation in populations. From my religious POV, either the sciency parts of the Bible are to be read as metaphorical or even irrelevant (really, from a religious POV, what difference does it make whether Earth or stars came first?) or the whole universe, Earth and our bodies are all part of a the most gigantic imaginable fraud.

Trilobites are just too fascinating to be a fraud.
# posted by Anonymous Mike from Ottawa : 1:35 PM
 
Kraft used to be an evolutionist...
Did he conduct research in evolution? Or merely accept evolution as fact without thinking about it? (Just saying he is a public school science teacher doesn't convince me he has much of a background in science.)
# posted by Blogger Mark : 3:12 PM
 
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