KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Theory
PERHAPS THE MOST strikingly audacious "fact" I have discovered in my teaching is found in the Glencoe Science Level Red 6th Grade Edition...
Not only does this textbook boldly teach evolution throughout it pages, it goes so far as to change the meaning of the word "theory." It slyly states, "The word theory is used outside of science to mean 'speculation' or 'an idea that is uncertain.' People often use the word when they are referring to a hypothesis...reinforce that a scientific theory is an accepted fact that scientists do not usually question until new evidence is presented." In every occurrence of the word theory outside of science, it is understood to be based in supposition. Not so in the scientific community -- we are instructed to teach theory as FACT. Now, the foundation is laid. Children hear the word theory -- they think fact. Our children are primed to soak in the innuendos and 'statements of fact' which will come at them in every grade, from a variety of textbooks. No wonder our children are leaving the foundations of Christianity -- their faith is continuously under attack! (Tish Clarke, THINK)
KneEmail: "Test all things; hold fast what is good" ( 1 Thessalonians 5:21).