But nobody thinks its a big deal if they don't talk that way in public schools. How come it's such a big deal that children be taught that "God created the separate living species". That's all Evolution is, a description of how species adapt over time. Why is THIS so important that we must say in public school that God did it?
When it rains, science classes are told that evaporation caused there to be water vapor and make clouds, and it condensed and fell as rain. Why aren't Christians howling that they must teach that "God made it rain"?
I just don't get how come people can't get it through their heads that God certianly has the power to have created Evolution, as all the massive amount of evidence collected in 200 years shows happened.
That was my take when I first heard about the froufrah. Then I had second thoughts and now I side with the school board. I say that education is a local matter and we don't need some Clinton appointed federal judge deciding how a state approved curriculum should be presented.
The book's author had a responsibility to explain a controversial subject in a manner that took local sensibilities into account. He failed. It can be done and there're others that can do it. In the mean time the board was right in adding to the presentation as they found necessary to fit local conditions.
That's the point. The sticker in question never mentions G-d at all and yet atheists and other pro-evolution folks are threatened by it. If their beliefs are so indefensible that a simply disclaimer reminding people that evolution is a THEORY sends them into fits, that doesn't bode well for the strength of their ideas to carry on in the marketplace.
Two reasons:
1. It would make Jesus Christ a liar.
2. It would make the Bible errant.
Jesus said:
Mat 19:4-5
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Quoting from the supposed mythological story in the Book of Genesis:
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And:
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
This is not an overly "literal" reading. Jesus Christ's confirmation assures us of the truth and accuracy of the Genesis account. Who better to make such a confirmation. Or who worse to disregard.