'Dr. Dino' Offers Strategy for Addressing Darwinian Inaccuracies
by Jim Brown
March 6, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A Christian evangelist known as "Dr. Dino" advocates a three-pronged approach to countering public school textbooks that use faulty evidence for Darwinian evolution.Dr. Kent Hovind says instead of trying to get intelligent design or creationism taught in public schools, the main objective of critics of evolution should be requiring accuracy in science textbooks. Hovind, the founder of Florida-based Creation Science Evangelism, notes many states already have laws requiring textbooks to be accurate -- and if they do not, he says, teachers should have the right to correct any inaccuracies in those books.
"Jesus lived in the Roman Empire and did not spend any time trying to change the Roman Empire. He just changed people, one at a time," Hovind points out. "And I think the grassroots approach of changing people is bulletproof -- I mean, there's nothing you can do to stop that."
He continues, saying the "second level of attack" would involve changing teachers. "Get the teachers converted or at least knowledgeable on the topic, where they know what the truth is," he suggests. "Then it doesn't matter what the textbook says, because the teacher's not going to teach it anyway -- or the teacher's going to teach it and expose the error."
Hovind says a third and more difficult plan of attack would be to change existing textbook requirements at the state level. But in that aspect, he laments, Darwinists are beating Christians to the punch.
"The atheists are really good at getting involved in the committees that select the state standards for education," he says. "Now, you can get five or ten atheists in your state that actually control what everybody is taught."
Once those individuals get on the committee, he says, "They'll vote -- they'll lobby the senators and representatives, and they'll say, 'We want you to vote in this legislation that requires the following things to be our state standards for education.'"
Later this month, Hovind will be holding a two-day seminar at the Pennsylvania high school a federal judge recently barred from mentioning intelligent design in biology class.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
