By Jack Cashill

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Regardless of what Americans believe, “No divine intervention” is what their kids have been learning in public schools. As late as 1995, before yielding to anti-Darwinian pressure, the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) made this clear when it described evolution as “impersonal, unsupervised, unpredictable.” “Unsupervised” means no one’s running the show. This point the fundamentalists in Kansas understood better than did their opposition. The few pro-evolution, self-identified "mainstream" Protestants at the hearing argued that Darwin and God were easily reconciled. In fact, they are really not reconcilable at all.

When famed evolutionist George Gaylord Simpson noted that “Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind," he was quite clearly denying the existence of a creator.

So was reigning Darwinian Julian Huxley on the occasion of the Darwin Centennial in 1959 when he boldly claimed that “in the evolutionary pattern of thought there is no longer either need or room for the supernatural. The earth was not created. It evolved.”

As the anti-evolutionists understand, the Darwinian position has grown even more materialistic since the centennial. Says Richard Dawkins, the most influential, if the least romantic, of contemporary evolutionary biologists, “We are survival machines, robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”

At the state board meeting, no evolution proponent acknowledged the inescapably atheistic thrust of Darwinism and neo-Darwinism, the presumed “blindness” in man’s programming,. This was the most prominent of many deceits. (What bothered the Catholics most, me included, was the educators’ flagrant and repeated distortion of the Pope’s thoughts on the subject). The six Kansas university presidents who submitted their own protest argued preposterously that, if encoded into standards. the very idea that science and religion were not compatible would “set Kansas back a century.”

To be fair, only one or two people testified that a that a teacher had actually ridiculed students about their belief in a creator. Rather, the weight of the testimony suggested that the educators indulge their students’ belief in God the way mom and pop indulge their little ones’ belief in Santa.

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