Church
leaders, like medical doctors, ought to be required
to take the Hippocratic Oath wherein they are directed
to “first do no harm.” Pastor Huck makes up misleading
pseudo‑scientific “facts,” then proceeds to
try and disprove them with irrational commentary
and his own “evidence” for which he can provide
no objectively verifiable proof.
Last
week’s column tries to disprove the world is older
than 10,000 years through a correlation that the
Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980 created a canyon,
therefore other canyons like the Grand Canyon could
have been created instantly rather than as scientists
claim–over millions of years. Nobody is going to
disagree that catastrophic natural disasters can
change the face of geography overnight. But it doesn’t
necessarily follow that all other canyons were created
in the same manner. Many eroded slowly over millions
of years.
The
Pastor’s knowledge of history and law are as abysmal
as his math and science. Since when is the First
Amendment to our Constitution, the one guaranteeing
separation of church and state, merely a “quote”
and not a law?
Creationism
is pure religion, not science, and belongs to the
field of social studies. The creationist
theories and “evidences” promoted by Pastor Huck
are absurd from a purely scientific perspective.
Our Constitution states that the government will
not give preference to one religion over another,
or to no religion at all.
I’m
pretty sure there are millions of non‑Christian
taxpayers in the U.S. who do not want public schools
presenting religion to their children. Religious
education belongs in the churches or private schools
and not in public schools.
Terry
Alexander
Phoenix
