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