Creationism - National Center for Science Education

Jay Sekulow is a lawyer who represented Jews for Jesus in their Supreme Court
case regarding proselytizing in public places. Sekulow heads CASE (Christian
Advocates Serving Evangelism), a San Francisco legal group which defends Christian
religious rights. He also has a television program, “Call to Action,” on TBN, the Santa
Ana, California Christian religious network, in which he advocates vigorous and militant
legal activism to promote fundamentalist concerns, including the teaching of creationism
in public schools.
One of the editors of the landmark booklet series The Fundamentals, Louis
Meyer, was a “Christian Jew.” Meyer, who succeeded A.C. Dixon as editor, edited
volumes VI-VIII, which included articles critical of evolution by Orr, Wright, Beach, and
one anonymous author.
Creationist radio sermons by Wayne Carver have been published by the Christian
Jew Foundation of San Antonio, Texas (The Science of Creation, n.d., and Panorama of
the Ages, n.d.). “Creation is a Scientific Fact,” declares Carver. He denounces
“evolutionary uniformitarians” described in II Peter: the “scoffers” in the Last Days who
reject supernaturalism and refuse to believe that God destroyed the entire world in the
Flood, and who believe that the earth is old, and formed by natural processes. Peter
rebutted these evolutionist uniformitarians by speaking about the Creation and the Flood:
the two events that “absolutely cannot be explained by the doctrine of uniformity”
(Panorama, p.7). II Peter also foretells the coming destruction of the world by nuclear
devastation.
Zola Levitt is a born-again “Hebrew Christian” author and televangelist who
emphasizes the Jewish heritage of Christianity. He has written over forty Christian books
on Bible prophecy, Israel, Pentecost, Jewish traditions, satanic UFOs, and other
fundamentalist topics. Levitt’s book Creation: A Scientist’s Choice (1976), an extended
interview with Protestant creation-scientist John N. Moore, the Michigan State science
professor, is an exposition of creation-science. Levitt said he “secretly believed in
evolution” until he met Moore, who converted him to strict creationism. “My belief in
the biblical account of creation now rests on solid, objective grounds, and my rejection of
evolution as a “theory” of origins is also unbiased and objective” (1976:5).
Jacob Rosin, retired director of Montrose Chemical Co. now living in Israel,
wrote a strange book The Predestined World (1976) in which he exposes the
contradictions and paradoxes of evolutionary theory. He goes on to propose his theory of
“vitachemistry,” in which he explains that the genetic pool is one big “vitachemical”
molecule. Viruses and amebas “commit suicide” in order to obey the biblical command
to multiply (by dividing). Rosin employs some standard creationist arguments, such as
claiming that the synchronized features of a bee colony must have appeared
simultaneously—it couldn’t have evolved gradually or piecemeal. Regarding the alleged
transformation of one species into another, Rosin asks: Why would one species commit
“treason” to its purpose (continued survival)? Rosin describes evolution as unavoidable
in his chapter “The Programmed World”: it is a progressive chemical process which is
identical throughout the universe. It does not have a single goal, however, as in the
notion of orthogenesis; it is a programmed process. Dinosaurs, for instance, may be in
existence now on other planets, propelled by this identical vitachemistry process. And
eventually, we humans will evolve into Homo sempervirens. H. sempervirens, says