The Flyover People Are At It Again

Ecclesiastes 12:1-5 (King James Version)

Ecclesiastes 12
“1Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
4And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets”


In the “Metropolitan” section of today’s Kansas City Star the feature piece was all about the creation/evolution debate that’s been raging here in Kansas for years now. The parties supporting each side of the debate met last night to discuss “revisions to the Kansas science standards.”

While it appears that the two parties may be finding some common ground, appearances can be deceiving.

Donna Gillett of Leavenworth, speaking to the proponents of Darwinism, put the creation science point of view this way:

“Students deserve to learn the whole truth about the origin of the universe.”

“Our students are not being taught to think. Why do you feel so threatened when asked to teach all the scientific evidence?”

Jeremy Mohn, speaking for the evolutionists, answered:

“Intelligent design has no place in the classroom, because its explanations are not testable using accepted methods of science.”

“Changing our definition of science to include them would be counter to our widely accepted definitions of science.”

The Darwinists proposed a compromise:

“They are proposing that students study evolution more carefully to become aware of the questions that they say it does not answer.”

Well how magnanimous of them! I can almost hear the science and biology teachers now. “Be careful, kids. Darwinism is a fact and you’ll see it if you examine the evidence we give you. We’re the scientists; the other guys are just a bunch of flat earthers and fly over people. Don’t let these uneducated rubes upset you. Trust us!”

I am not going to pretend to be able to settle the debate, but I can say this is classic bait and switch, the type of thing that the Darwinists have been doing for decades now.

In the past few years I’ve sparred with Patrick Kelley at our local rag about the issue. He says that the religious thought shouldn’t be introduced into this debate.

I’d like to agree with him, but I have to take exception right from the start. It wasn’t the creation scientists who introduced religion into the debate, it was the Darwinists.

In two letters I put the case succinctly to him. The Darwinists are attempting to drive God out of the equation and place themselves on the throne. It’s as simple as that. A couple of quotes from the letters I sent to Mr. Kelley follow to illustrate my point.

The first was sent to the Gazette in April of 2002:

“In 1959, on the centennial celebration of the publication of The Origin Species, keynote speaker Julian Huxley said “Future historians will perhaps take this Centennial Week as epitomizing an important critical period in the history of this earth of ours – the period when the process of evolution in the process of inquiring man, began to be truly conscious of itself.” He went on to say, “In the evolutionary pattern of thought there is no longer either need or room for the supernatural (my emphasis added). The earth was not created, it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including or human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body. So did religion.”

The second was sent in August of the same year:

“Evolutionary man can no longer take refuge from his loneliness in the arms of a divinized father figure whom he himself has created, nor escape from the responsibility of making decisions by sheltering under the umbrella of Divine Authority, nor absolve himself from the hard task of meeting his present problems and planning for the future by relying on the will of an omniscient, but unfortunately inscrutable, Providence.

Finally, the evolutionary vision is enabling us to discern, however incompletely, the lineaments of a new religion that we can be sure will arise to serve the needs of the coming era.” (my emphasis added)

Now we fly over people know that the issue won’t be settled any time soon, but we do know one thing – that this debate is really important. The Darwinists are saying that they want us to trust their science and jettison our faith. We don’t get warm fuzzies when we hear them say that. We don’t trust their science because there is too much stolen and misappropriated faith in their arguments. It was Nietzsche who said, “Now it is our preference that decides against Christianity, not arguments.”

We fly over folks want to debate the issue. The Darwinists are ducking us like the wanna’ be’s ducked Muhammad Ali.

If they have their way they’ll create a new religion for us. Their signature prayer will sound like this:

“Our nada, who art in nada, nada be they name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”

I think I prefer the debate to the alternative these blind guides are offering. We’ve seen the peace offering for what it is, a shell game that is to be played by their rules. Well, we may look like rubes, but we’ve been to a carnival or two and know when we’re being hustled. So, to the Darwinists we say, “Keep your shells and peas and we’ll keep fightin.”