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Intelligent Design Efforts Likely to Fail

By E. Ray Moore, Jr.

The current Supreme Court interpretation of the separation of church

and state has allowed the public schools to ignore the long-held

belief by most Americans that God is the Creator.

Now the same separation views are used to limit the access of

intelligent design views to our public school children.

Many Christian families over the next few years will vacate the

government schools due to such intransigence and hostility toward

Christianity and toward traditional beliefs as advocated in the column

in The State on Aug. 8, "The Intelligent Design End Run," by Sheryl

McCarthy.

Justice Hugo Black, a one-time member of the Ku Klux Klan, authored

the Supreme Court's Everson opinion in 1947, which first used

separation of church and state in Supreme Court jurisprudence, a

phrase not in the text of the Constitution. This phrase was lifted

from Thomas Jefferson's letter of 1802 to the Danbury Baptist

Association to answer their concerns that the federal government would

sponsor a single Christian denomination.

There have been more than a dozen cases since 1947's Everson case

based partially on Hugo Black's reasoning.  This case has proven to be one of the most socially, academically and constitutionally destructive cases in U.S. history. To use Ms. McCarthy's terminology, it was Justice Hugo Black who used this then-novel interpretation of the separation of church and state to make an "end run" around the Constitution.

This view has been used to make Christians' beliefs such as

creationism or intelligent design second-class or unworthy ideas in

public education. It was also used to exclude prayer and Bible reading

in 1962 and 1963 Supreme Court cases.

Yes, all Christians believe that the government and church must be

administratively distinct, but neither the U.S. Constitution nor the

founders intended to set up a secular state that did not acknowledge

God. The Judeo-Christian cast of our laws and founding is

incontrovertible.

Many Christians view evolutionism not as science, but as religion or

dogma, and also the foundation for such destructive social and

political ideologies as racism, fascism and Marxism. Christianity and

creationism teach that all men are created equal and in the image of

God; all mankind has a common ancestor and origin, thus rendering

evolutionism as foundational to racism.

Readers should examine social Darwinism's views to confirm this. These

views have been used to demean ethnic minorities for centuries by

dogmatic social Darwinians. Evangelical Christians, traditional

Catholics and orthodox Jews accept evolutionism as neither a valid

science nor as a beneficent social policy.

The evolutionary dogmatists are unlikely to bend since they have the

power, the media and Supreme Court decisions since the Everson case to

assure their continued control of public education. Orthodox

Christians are wasting time asking for equal time for intelligent

design in the public schools. George Bush cannot help on this.

Over the next decade, millions of children, with the assistance of

their churches, will relocate to a whole new Christian and home-school

system, where both evolution and creationism will be taught fairly and

objectively.

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> Mr. Moore is director of Exodusmandate.org, a ministry to assist

> home-schooling and Christian schools. He lives in Blythewood, SC.

> 

> Exodus Mandate:

> http://www.exodusmandate.org/

> 

> View this article online: http://tinyurl.com/a59dx

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> Related Websites:

> 

> Alliance for the Separation of School & State:

> http://sepschool.org/

> 

> Answers In Genesis:

> http://www.answersingenesis.org

> 

> CEANet Creation Links Page:

> http://tinyurl.com/452b

> 

> Considering Homeschooling Ministry:

> http://www.consideringhomeschooling.org/

> 

> Discovery Center's Ctr for Science and Culture:

> http://www.discovery.org/csc/

> 

> Get The Kids Out:

> http://www.getthekidsout.org/

> 

> The Harsh Truth About Public Schools:

> http://www2.whidbey.net/jmboyes/shortt-0.htm

> 

> Institute for Creation Research (ICR):

> http://www.icr.org

> 

> Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center:

> http://www.ideacenter.org/

> 

> Let My Children Go:

> http://www2.whidbey.net/jmboyes/LMCG-C.htm

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> NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is

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