The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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May 21, 1998 |
The recent pro and con exchanges in the Enquirer concerning the teaching
of evolution in the public schools failed to mention several very important
facts.
Our great free nation is founded on faith in creationism, as stated in the opening words of the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." All conclusions concerning man’s ultimate origin and destiny are matters of faith, not knowledge. Our constitution guarantees of separation of church and state are supposed to prevent any preferential treatment of one faith over another by any institution supported by taxes levied upon us all. |
Yet Darwinism, the Secular Humanist faith
in the evolutionary hypothesis, is taught in the public schools and in
our tax subsidized citadels of higher learning, not along with, but to
the exclusion of the biblical faith in creationism.
Although no one knows how man originated, we do know for a certainty that man is not merely a physical, but is essentially a moral and spiritual being. We also know that there is neither morality nor spirituality, virtue or vice, in nature, so we can be absolutely sure that man is not a child of nature or its processes, which would not give to man what they do not themselves possess. Man does not have the mark of the beast upon his soul, but the mark of God Almighty, his father, in whose divine image he was created. We therefore know that the evolutionary hypothesis concerning man’s origin in the swamp and jungle is false. Gaston D. Cogdell
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