The 'Monkey See, Monkey Do' Approach to Science

By Rev. Mark H. Creech
January 17, 2005
AgapePress

It is a travesty of justice -- actually a violation of the public's First Amendment rights -- that any consideration of God or supernatural explanations of science are summarily banned from the public classroom. Calvert explains:

'The problem is that an 'Evolution Only' policy is not really scientific or constitutional. It is not scientific because it is officially biased rather than scientifically objective. Because it is biased, it is not religiously neutral. Evolution Only effectively requires our children to 'know' that we come from a natural rather than an intelligent cause, that we are occurrences and not designs, and that we naturally arise without purpose from a purposeless process. It effectively teaches that no rational evidentiary basis exists for theistic beliefs. Evolution Only converts these scientific claims into dogmas that are the fundamental tenants of non-theistic religions and that directly contradict the fundamental tenants of theistic religions. Accordingly, in my opinion, Evolution Only is not 'secular' or neutral. Rather it is an ideology that directly conflicts with the First Amendment rights of parents and students.'

Simply put, the scientific community and the public educational system have essentially embraced a -- forgive the pun -- 'monkey see, monkey do' approach to science, which is justified by the court's distortion of the First Amendment that establishes evolutionary humanism as the quasi-official religion of the public schools."

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