Dr Lawrence Krauss is promoting his belief
that teaching creationism to children is child
abuse.
We certainly share his conclusion that teaching
lies to children is a form of child abuse.
We need to teach kids the truth.
But how can you teach truth if you have a
way of thinking that cannot define truth?
Dr Krauss is an atheist that believes there
is no creator God.
He then rails against creationists because
he declares what we teach is "morally wrong".
But where do moral laws come from?
If you say that each person determines what
is right for themselves then there is no absolute
moral law.
If you say societies as a whole determine
morality then I guess we could say Hitler
was right then couldn't we?
That is the argument the Nazi's used in the
Nuremburg trials, that it was legal in Germany
to commit the atrocities they did (based on
their evolutionary worldview that some races
were inferior to others) because their societal
laws accepted killing Jews was 'right'.
At the time other people rejected that line
of thinking because they said there was a
'higher law' which really meant God's law
'Though shall not murder".
See in order for there to be right or wrong
there needs to be an unchanging standard to
compare to.
As an analogy, if I said "Which is more correct,
2+2=5 or 2+2=5,000,000,000?"
Most would say '5' because it is closer to
the real answer, '4'.
But if there was no 'real answer 4' to compare
it to it wouldn't matter which answer you
gave would it?
In the same way atheists can't point to an
absolute unchanging moral law, all they can
come up with is 'their opinion' which really
amounts to a lot of hot air.
Lawrence accuses creationists of a lack of
morality, but in his worldview morality is
determined by the individual, in which case
how can we be morally wrong?
The best he could say if his worldview is
true is that he doesn't agree with us.
So who cares?
No one could be teaching anything that was
'morally wrong' because all we would be teaching
is our own opinion, and who's to say your
opinion is better than mine?
It seems like people like Lawrence Krauss
and Richard Dawkins want to move our society
towards some kind of Deophobic, atheistic,
materialistic world view where only their
faith can be taught.
They live in a box called materialism and
they don't think outside of it (which is fine).
What isn't fine is trying to shove it down
other people's throats through indoctrination
in our school systems!
I mean seriously, I think using emotive terms
like child abuse to attack people that don't
believe what you do and forcing your beliefs
on others is a little Orwellian don't you?
Atheists like Lawrence believe our existence
is totally materialistic and want to use logic
to show how creationism doesn't make sense.
But logic isn't made of matter.
You can't buy a pound of logic down at the
store Lawrence.
Where does an unchanging, universal non-materialistic
entity like logic come from in an evolutionary,
constantly changing materialistic universe?
Lawrence wants to talk about science as if
it backs up his belief system.
But science is based on the uniformity in
the universe.
If you couldn't expect conditions to be similar
tomorrow to what they are today then why would
you conduct experiments?
But evolution (constant change) doesn't explain
uniformity in nature well at all.
Dr Krauss, before you try arguing against
creationists may I suggest you explain how
you even account for the existence of morality,
logic and science in the first place, without
God?
Christians can explain all of them according
to the God of the Bible; Science is possible
because God created an orderly universe because
He is a God of order.
Logic is a reflection of how God thinks because
it allows right thinking.
Morality is absolute because God is righteous
and just.
You see unless you start WITH God you can't
explain how you could have the tools to argue
AGAINST God!
Doesn't it make more sense to teach kids a
worldview that can account for why they are
here, why life has meaning and why science
is even possible?
Why certain behaviour is wrong and why there
is a right and wrong way to think about things?
Evolution isn't the basis of modern biology,
it's the basis of atheism, irrationality and
Nihilism!
No wonder many people can't get science right
when they are taught that explosions (Big
Bang) cause order, random spelling mistakes
in DNA (Mutations) write the equivalent of
sophisticated biological computer code and
that coded information (DNA) in living things
wrote itself with no mind.
The last thing we want to do is keep teaching
the irrationality of evolution to people as
'science' and 'fact' when there isn't one
observable example of one creature turning
into another.
Facts are observed!
The purpose of science education is not to
teach make believe stories about the past.
To teach such manifest nonsense with impunity
will only damage the healthy future of our
society.
Technology and biotechnology will be the basis
of our economic future.
And if we allow nonsense to be promulgated
in the schools, we do a disservice to our
students, a disservice to our children, and
we're guaranteeing that they will fall behind
in a competitive world that depends upon a
skilled workforce able to understand and manipulate
technology and science.
At Creation Ministries International we advocate
the teaching of science and truth.
Truth will always offend anyone who clings
to error.
Don't be offended.
