National Education Association Attenders Receive Darwin Bibles

By The Christian Post on July 4th, 2009

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By Nathan Black
Christian Post Reporter
Fri, Jul. 03 2009 03:21 PM EDT

Creation proponents are distributing thousands of creationist materials and Darwin Bibles to attendees at the National Education Association’s annual meeting in San Diego, Calif., this week.

The Creation Science Educators Caucus is hoping to engage public school teachers in friendly dialogue and introduce them to what the group believes are the faults to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Members of the caucus, as well as volunteers from the Answers in Genesis ministry, are also hoping to introduce NEA members to faith in Christ.

Tony Ramsek, spokesperson for the caucus, stressed that their purpose is to reach individual teachers with the creation/gospel message and “not necessarily to change the system.”

“We are not there to lobby for policy or political changes within the NEA system, but rather to share the life changing gospel with teachers,” he said in a statement earlier.

DarwinBibleConservatives have criticized the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, for supporting a liberal perspective on many issues. The Creation Science Educators Caucus has been attending the association’s annual meeting for the past 14 years plastering banners that state “Evolution is Science Fraud” and “Refuting Evolution.”

Taking a slightly different approach this year, the creation proponents have gone into the meeting with the banner “For by Jesus Christ all things were created.”

“Our goal this week is not to create controversy or hold a revival,” noted Ken Ham, founder and president of Answers in Genesis and a Young Earth creationist. “We simply want to balance the representation of views presented at the conference.”

Ham’s ministry donated thousands of DVDs and books for this year’s outreach.

“I hope that participants will take the time to watch a DVD or read a book that the Caucus is handing out, and that they will see how the Bible is confirmed by observational science,” Ham said. “Also, we always welcome a friendly debate with evolutionists!”

For the first time this year, creationists are passing out The Charles Darwin Bible, which was released this year in response to the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his On the Origin of Species book. The Bible is designed to serve as a tool to share with evolutionists and atheists at a time when many, including some in the Church, are dismissing the book of Genesis as a fable.

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  • Steven Riley
    " the Bible is confirmed by observational science, Hamm said" Which part of the Bible is confirmed by observational science-the parting of the Red Sea or a man living in the belly of a great fish for 3 days ? Maybe even people living up to 900 years. Would be nice to hear the evidence of the science that confirms these.
  • How about the innumerability of the stars, the fact that the earth is not supported by any physical platform, that the universe is expanding, the meteorological circulation patterns, the biological function of blood, the fact that organisms (unlike the myths of evolution theory) reproduce consistently generation after generation according to their own kinds, the rain cycle, and more. Virtually all of these either exceeded or defied the conventional "wisdom" of their time, and many have only recently been confirmed by scientific investigation.

    Unlike evolution theory, many of the Bible's claims (made thousands of years ago) have proved to be accurate, and not a single claim made by the Bible has been proved incorrect...unlike evolution theory which is on a weekly basis proved wrong about various aspects of the theory, requiring continual modification and updating. (Just follow the "science" headlines for two weeks if you don't believe me).
  • Steven Riley
    I agree that things like infinite stars, non-supported earth, function of blood tec, all observationally point to a creator, but they do NOT CONFIRM a Biblical God . They just confirm a creator To say all those things you mentioned confirm a Biblical creator is called a BELIEF. Observational science just makes the claim that 'A' creator was responsible.
  • The point of confirmation you described earlier was not that the Bible or any particular thing in it CONFIRMS God's existence.

    Your last comment focused solely on super-natural actions by the Creator recorded in the Bible, as if nothing in the Bible had been, in Hamm's words, "confirmed by observational science." I pointed out that, while the Bible contains many references to super-natural events which cannot be re-created scientifically by those of us who lack the power to supersede the laws of nature, at the same time the Bible contains many statements (years in advance of contemporary science or sometimes in contradiction to the contemporary "science" of that age) which have been confirmed by observational science, and I listed some of those. But none of the Bible's scientific or historical statements have been contradicted, discredited or disproved in 2,000-3,000 years.

    This is a record near-infinitely better than the evolutionist record of accuracy. Speaking of which, many people pooh-pooh the Bible despite it's unblemished record of accuracy while insisting we believe in a theory which (in addition to being impossible within its own framework) is constantly discredited on various points.
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