“I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.” ThinkingHas BeensImportantChristianUsedOpportunityBeliefReligiousDealsStudentsRelationInstrumentsTheologyChristian FaithReligious Belief Author:William A. Dembski
“As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.” NeedsEarthChristianOrderFallStarsReligiousTeachSkyAtheismLandStudentsScientistUniversityPositive AtheismFlatsProfessorsEngineersEmbarrassedReligious FaithGeorgiaSuperintendents Author:Jimmy Carter
“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.” WorldWayYearsCountryWould BeEarthChristianBeliefNaturalAtheismTeachingStudentsEvolutionPoliticianEvidenceWesternPositive AtheismOne WayReasonableHospitalsMechanismPropositionsSelectionControversialReconcileNatural SelectionBelief In GodDeductionsDenominationsScandinaviansChristian DenominationsJay Gould Author:Katha Pollitt
“In 1965, in Reed v. Van Hoven, a court determined (237 F.Supp. 48. W.D.Mich. 1965.) that it was permissible for students to pray over their lunch at school so long as no one knew they were praying - that is, they couldn't say words or move their lips, but they could pray only if no one knew about it!” IfsLongSchoolChristianMovingReligiousStudentsPrayingCourtLipsDeterminedLunchVansReeds Author:David Barton
“In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.” StatesSchoolChristianChurchReligiousCasesStudentsTenStonesCourtSeparationSupremeCopiesCommandmentsSupreme CourtChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateTen CommandmentsUnconstitutional Author:David Barton
“Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.” ChristianReligiousTeacherStudentsDisplayProsecutorJurors Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.” StatesSchoolChristianReligiousPrayerPracticeStudentsCourtIncludingMissionsSupremeLocalsOfficialsOrganizedSupreme CourtPublic SchoolBannedAdministratorsReligious Practices Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.