Eyes will be opened to lessons of creationism

Evangelicals advocate that creation science should be taught in our public schools. Maybe we secularists who endorse evolution rather than Bible-based creationism have been a little hasty in our criticism.

Just think, with Darwin and evolution out of the way in our schools, students in chemistry class will now learn how water was miraculously turned into wine.

In physics, they'll finally be able to critically examine the elemental principles of "angel" aerodynamics— how do they achieve takeoff, let alone fly?

Someone ought to let North Carolina know that its state license plate ("First in Flight") is, from a historical perspective, incorrect.

In anatomy, girls will assiduously be instructed as to their true origin — Adam's rib.

And the boys? Well, the boys will be enlightened that they were created from a pile of dirt (dust). Do you suppose that's where that pejorative expression "dirt bag" comes from?

Just think of the astonishment our impressionable kids will have in English 101, when the class learns of the linguistic skills of a talking snake or their surprise in astronomy class whey they are taught how Joshua stopped the sun so as to provide him more time to murder the Amorites.

"If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution," as Judith Hayes wrote, "then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction."

Come to think of it, it's about time that faith and belief replace reason and thinking in the classrooms. The secularists have had it their way long enough.
Borden Applegate
Jackson