Require Accuracy in Textbooks -- and Evolution Will Crumble, Says Creationist
by Jim Brown
February 13, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A Christian evangelist who travels and speaks around the world on creation, evolution, and dinosaurs will be holding a seminar at a Pennsylvania high school that was recently ordered by a federal judge not to mention "intelligent design" (ID) in biology class.Dr. Kent Hovind takes the position that the Bible is literally true and scientifically accurate, the earth is not billions of years old, and dinosaurs lived with man all through history. Hovind, who heads Pensacola, Florida-based "Creation Science Evangelism," will bring his message to the Dover Area High School on March 17-18. The two-day seminar is sponsored by Philadelphia-based Repent America.
Referring to the recent highly publicized ID court case involving the Dover school district -- a case that resulted ultimately in the election of a new school board -- Hovind believes the previous board should not have tried to force intelligent design into schools. He says no matter how noble such efforts are, those who are pushing for ID or critical analysis of evolution in public schools are all "barking up the wrong tree."
According to the Creation Science Evangelism founder, the overall objective should be accuracy in textbooks. "To me the much better approach is don't mention creation, don't mention evolution, don't mention intelligent design," Hovind suggests. "That's not the goal."
The goal, he says, is to get textbooks to be accurate. "Because if all the lies are taken out of the textbooks, there will be nothing left to support the evolution theory." And that, he says, is evolutionists' problem. "They shouldn't have picked a dumb theory to begin with."
There is no need for schools to mandate the teaching of creation, evolution, or intelligent design, he says. "The only thing that's going to work is simply to require accuracy in textbooks," he reiterates. "There are fifty-some lies in the average textbook that are used as evidence for evolution. Get 'em out; end of story. That's all that needs to be done."
And besides, Hovind adds, teachers can already teach creation and talk about intelligent design. He says the courts have never ruled that schools cannot teach those approaches to the origin of life -- they simply ruled schools cannot require it.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
