Some things are facts
like gravity and death. These are things that occur every time. Gravity is well
established and nobody has ever lived forever.
Things that don’t
happen all the time are not facts. Some of these things are theories that have
yet to be proven. They are based on beliefs that their theory will eventually
be proven as true.
The battle between the
Atheists and everybody else is about whether or not God exists and if we will
continue to exist after we die. Each side has a long list of evidence to argue
their point, but we really won’t know if God exists and we are immortal until
we die.
Atheists insist that
“evolution” is a fact, but the rest of us have not seen conclusive evidence
that convinces us that this is nothing more than a theory. We agree that
viruses seem to mutate and change, but that doesn’t prove that everything else
evolved. In fact, many scientists do not believe evolution is “settled science.
They continue to see evidence of “intelligent design”.
The latest target for
Atheists to attack is teaching public school children about Noah’s Ark. I would
put this in the same category as “evolution”. Because the Ark has not been
found and carbon dated, the Ark is still a theory. The Bible includes history
that has been verified through other sources.
The Atheist argument
continues to look “thin” to the rest of us. See article below:
ARK ENCOUNTER FIELD TRIPS CONSTITUTIONAL,
ORGANIZERS TELL ATHEISTS, Warning against visits by
schools 'nothing more than a bullying tactic', 9/8/18, WND.
An organization of atheists has
sent letters to schools in a few counties near the Ark Encounter and its
related Creation Museum, warning officials that they shouldn’t plan any field
trips to those attractions because school events need to be
“secular.”
But the group that runs
them, Answers in Genesis, contends such visits, if school classes
choose them, are constitutional.
Ken Ham, the CEO and founder of Answers in Genesis, argued that
children already get “evolutionary and atheistic indoctrination … five days a
week for the whole school year.”
That, he pointed out, includes “field trips to museums where
evolution is presented as fact.”
His group’s religious freedom attorneys wrote in 2016 that “if
public schools were bringing students to the Ark and museum and declaring,
‘THIS interpretation in the only real truth that you should personally accept,’
then that would be a violation of the Establishment Clause.”
“If classes are coming to the museum or Ark in an objective
fashion, however, to show students world-class exhibits and one group’s
interpretation of the origin of man and earth history, then the field trip is
just fine as an exceptional and voluntary educational and cultural experience,”
the attorneys wrote.
They said public school officials “should neither personally
endorse nor diminish the museum’s view, but should present it objectively.”
“This principle is the same as ‘teaching the Bible in schools.’ It
is well established that the Bible may be used in the classroom objectively, as
part of a secular program of education, for the Bible’s inherent historic and
literary value. As long as the teacher doesn’t take a personal position in the
classroom that the Bible is true, the teacher can say, ‘Millions of people
around the globe do believe it is true, and let’s look at the effect that
belief has had upon the development of Western Civilization, history, culture,
art, music, and all the rest.'”
They explained, “Surely, liberal civil rights groups like the ACLU
and the FFRF would not argue that on a field trip to a local theater, the
school inherently endorses and adopts all of the viewpoints and themes that may
be presented in each production.”
It was the Kentucky branch of American Atheists that sent letters
to schools in Hardin, Jefferson and Fayette counties, near the Ark and museum.
American Atheists state
director Johnny Pike said he was particular concerned with field trips to
those locations.
But state law allows students to pray in school, express and
discuss religious viewpoints, and distribute literature subject to time and
place restrictions.
Ham said the letter by the
atheists was “nothing more than a bullying tactic to try and keep children from
being exposed to the teaching at these attractions.”
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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