Timberjay Newspapers editor Marshall Helmberger tells it like it is in an editorial entitled "Creationists resort to deception in attacking evolution."
"Personally I don't care if someone wants to believe that the world is 6,000 years old and that humans walked with dinosaurs.
Where I draw the line is when such individuals try to force their unscientific and insupportable beliefs into the science curriculum of our public schools."
Where I draw the line is when such individuals try to force their unscientific and insupportable beliefs into the science curriculum of our public schools."
In the editorial, Helmberger correctly notes that even though creationists have consistently failed to get their religious beliefs into science classrooms, they have still successfully undermined the teaching of evolution.
"While the courts have correctly ruled that the teaching of religion as science is unconstitutional in this country, the fact is that advocates of creationism have significantly undermined the teaching of evolution in American classrooms nonetheless. Few American young people graduate from high school or university with anything more than a rudimentary understanding of the basics of evolution and the literally mountainous and ever-growing base of scientific evidence to support it."
It is refreshing to read such a straightforward approach to the issue.
Thank you Mr. Helmberger.
posted by Jeremy Mohn
