Creationism - National Center for Science Education
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In a book on astronomy, John Whitcomb and Donald DeYoung write:“The issues<br />
are, at bottom, moral and ethical, rather than merely academic and intellectual,” (1979).<br />
Francis Schaeffer, an influential fundamentalist philosopher and theologian,<br />
argues in How Should We Then Live? (1983) that our life and culture has degenerated to<br />
the extent that we have <strong>for</strong>saken Christian ethics, morality and belief. In one chapter,<br />
Schaeffer explains that the rise of science was due to Christianity, and in another, that<br />
“The Breakdown in Philosophy and <strong>Science</strong>” was caused by evolutionism and the<br />
destructive philosophies it has spawned.<br />
The Crime of Being Alive, an anti-abortion tract (reprinted from Last Days<br />
Newsletter) co-authored by Melody Green, a prominent anti-abortion activist often seen<br />
in the company of President Reagan, compares abortion explicitly with Hitler’s policies,<br />
both of which are based on Darwinism. “If man evolved, then he is a mere animal. His<br />
value is determined strictly by what he can offer society. If man is created in the image<br />
and likeness of God, his value is determined by his Creator” (1984).<br />
In Can America Survive the Fruits of Atheistic Evolution? (1981), a tract widely<br />
distributed by Pro-Family Forum, an active supporter of the recent Louisiana creationscience<br />
bill (they submitted several written arguments to the court), author Bert<br />
Thompson of Apologetics Press (Reason & Revelation) declares that its fruits are Nazism<br />
and communism.<br />
Evolution is built upon the assumption that man is only an animal; consequently, morals and values are<br />
useless and not to be incorporated into the system... Evolution, though its advocates do not like to admit it,<br />
leads to out-and-out racism... America’s ruin will be hot on the heels of the popular acceptance of<br />
evolution.<br />
Prominent Florida televangelist D. James Kennedy calls evolution “the big lie-.the<br />
most destructive, pernicious lie that has ever come down the pike... It has already<br />
resulted in the deaths of more people than have been killed in all of the wars in the<br />
history of mankind” (1977:1). Kennedy proclaims that evolution is the basis of every<br />
false and evil doctrine in sight. To the evolutionist: “life has no meaning. It is just<br />
haphazard chance... Life has no values and there is no basis <strong>for</strong> any moral standards”<br />
(1987:12).<br />
Walter Lang answers the charge that injecting religion and morality into science<br />
will ruin its objectivity by insisting that when doing science, not only nature’s contraints,<br />
but God’s moral constraints must always be observed.<br />
Obviously there has to be a balance between nature and moral constraints, but today we have lost the<br />
balance, by despising the moral constraints that are necessary <strong>for</strong> nature, and claiming that they are not only<br />
unimportant but even damaging. Because we have neglected and avoided these moral constraints, <strong>for</strong> that<br />
reason we have this greatest of all paganisms in the history of the world, this greatest of all deceptions and<br />
myths, namely, mega-evolution; the idea that the world is billions of years old and that we came from<br />
lower <strong>for</strong>ms of life. [1986:5]