In response to the publicity that the fourth grade science test got in Snopes recently, Answers in Genesis posted a rebuttal against "those intolerant atheists." Ken Ham, himself,
writes:
Today, we bring your attention to another attack on Christian education. A Christian K–12 school in South Carolina, with dedicated and highly qualified Christian teachers,1 has come under vicious attack by atheists. Why? Because one of its instructors, a fourth-grade teacher, tested her children about biblical creation, science, and dinosaurs (using AiG resources), and she has become (in)famous on many atheist websites and blogs.
It is not clear to me that she has become infamous on many atheist websites. Many sites that aired the controversy are not atheist sites. Like me, they simply cannot believe that this is being taught as science. Ham is blanketly calling anyone who disagrees with the teaching of this in fourth grade as "atheist." This is simply name-calling. For the entire length of the response, however, there is never a question about the quality of the instruction, only the assertion that it is "the atheists" that want to remove the "biblical approach to dinosaurs." He writes:
For the next two years, our special theme for the Answers in Genesis ministry is “Standing our Ground, Rescuing our Kids” (Galatians 1:4). We, too, have experienced recent increased attacks by atheists, especially whenever they discover we are influencing children with the truth of God’s Word. These anti-God people hate the fact that Christians are teaching children to stand on the authority of the Bible; they want to be the ones teaching children and indoctrinating them into atheism.
For Ken Ham, there is not the slightest possibility that a person can be a Christian and not accept this way of looking at scripture.What happens to these kids when they reach adolescence or adulthood and discover that he is wrong about how the universe is put together? What then? Will he feel responsible when they walk away from the faith?
"For Ken Ham, there is not the slightest possibility that a person can be a Christian and not accept this way of looking at scripture."
ReplyDeleteAnd that is exactly why I will never accept that Ken Ham means it when he says that one does not have to believe in young-Earth Creationism to be a Christian.
"What happens to these kids when they reach adolescence or adulthood and discover that he is wrong about how the universe is put together? What then? Will he feel responsible when they walk away from the faith?"
Of course not! He will blame it on the teaching of Evolution.