TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL

April 10, 2001, Tuesday

Having just finished Dava Sobel's book, "Galileo's Daughter," I was struck
by the irony of the situation that has developed in Kansas regarding the
teaching of origins. The book destroys the conventional view that Galileo
was a heretic who rejected the Christian faith on scientific grounds and
was thus censored by the Roman Church. While it is true Galileo was
severely censored, he was not a heretic.  All indications are he was a
devout believer who simply didn't think science could ever discover
anything that contradicted the Word of God. Time has proven him correct,
and it is clear the Roman Church sold out to a Ptolemaic view of the
universe and made a serious error in its evaluation of Galileo's theories.

Today, a similar error is taking place, but it is the "Church of Darwin,"
as it has been aptly dubbed by Phillip Johnson, that is doing the
censoring. The scientific establishment, completely sold out to
Naturalism, cannot tolerate having its world view questioned. Rather than allow the
Darwinian theory to be compared fairly along side competing theories, it
brands Intelligent Design as "religion," hoping that people won't notice
that Darwinism, by definition, contains all the same religious
implications.

Isn't it revealing that those promoting Darwinism must, by necessity, urge
the restriction of free thought rather than risk allowing students to
compare Darwinism with competing views? Could it be that deep down these
"Cardinals of Naturalism" know that a fair comparison between the two
views would mean the eventual death of Darwinism?

Like the truly enlightened in Galileo's day, who continued to promote his
censored theories, I urge those who are still willing to think for
themselves to do their own investigation rather than merely accept the
word of the Darwinian "Papal Bull." The more this happens, the better for
Intelligent Design.

--- DR. TOM MORGAN, Topeka.
 

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