Darwin’s Teachers Challenged by God
April 1st, 2006 by Rat PobertsonAmerica’s children bring God to school with them.
Testing Darwin’s Teachers - Los Angeles Times
LIBERTY, Mo. — Monday morning, Room 207: First day of a unit on the origins of life. Veteran biology teacher Al Frisby switches on the overhead projector and braces himself.
As his students rummage for their notebooks, Frisby introduces his central theme: Every creature on Earth has been shaped by random mutation and natural selection — in a word, by evolution.
The challenges begin at once.
“Isn’t it true that mutations only make an animal weaker?” sophomore Chris Willett demands. ” ‘Cause I was watching one time on CNN and they mutated monkeys to see if they could get one to become human and they couldn’t.”
Frisby tries to explain that evolution takes millions of years, but Willett isn’t listening. “I feel a tail growing!” he calls to his friends, drawing laughter.
Unruffled, Frisby puts up a transparency tracing the evolution of the whale, from its ancient origins as a hoofed land animal through two lumbering transitional species and finally into the sea. He’s about to start on the fossil evidence when sophomore Jeff Paul interrupts: “How are you 100% sure that those bones belong to those animals? It could just be some deformed raccoon.”
From the back of the room, sophomore Melissa Brooks chimes in: “Those are real bones that someone actually found? You’re not just making this up?”
“No, I am not just making it up,” Frisby says.
At least half the students in this class of 14 don’t believe him, though, and they’re not about to let him off easy.
Two decades of political and legal maneuvering on evolution has spilled over into public schools, and biology teachers are struggling to respond. Loyal to the accounts they’ve learned in church, students are taking it upon themselves to wedge creationism into the classroom, sometimes with snide comments but also with sophisticated questions — and a fervent faith.
As sophomore Daniel Read put it: “I’m going to say as much about God as I can in school, even if the teachers can’t.”
Such challenges have become so disruptive that some teachers dread the annual unit on evolution — or skip it altogether.
Go get em kiddos!
May the lord make us truly thankfull !
April 1st, 2006 at 2:21 am e
It’s about time someone started questioning this pseudoscience! Students aren’t allowed to believe in God, because the liberal thought police hate Jesus. But at the same time they’re forced to believe this evolution theory, they’re not allowed to question it, they’re told it’s a fact, and meanwhile their teachers don’t have any personal experience with fossils–they don’t even understand the science behind evolution. They teach it because they’re told to by politicians! Well you know what? I think that we should tell our government what to do and not the other way around! Patriotic, God-fearing, Real Americans need to stand up for themselves. At least our schoolchildren are smart enough not to believe all the hype. The liberals always say to be skeptical of religion, well atheistic science is their religion, so why are those hypocritical moonbats so violently opposed to Real Americans who question the validity of Atheistic Science?
April 1st, 2006 at 3:49 am e
Rat–
If believing this sort of mumbo-jumbo convinces your flock to keep voting for tax cuts, then I’m all for it. Some of my friends at the Coroner say that you’re crazy, and I tell them, “Yes, Pobertson is crazy. Crazy like a lunatic!”
April 1st, 2006 at 3:50 am e
Fox. Crazy like a fox.