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Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 12:16am On Jul 05, 2014
Evolutionists Infuriated by Creation Cartoon Shown in Public School
July 4, 2014 | Filed under: Education,Science,Top Stories | By: Garrett Haley

Ken Ham Castle IllustrationATLANTA – A furor erupted recently at an Atlanta high school after a science instructor showed an illustration from Christian apologist Ken Ham to her students.

According to reports, Anquinette Jones of Henry W. Grady High School taught a freshman Biology class last spring. Using a 52-slide PowerPoint presentation, Jones introduced the theory of evolution to her students, as required by the Atlanta Public Schools science curriculum.

The PowerPoint presentation is primarily pro-evolution, asserting that evolutionary theory is supported by numerous scientific fields, including anatomy, embryology, and biochemistry.

“96% of the human genome is the same as the chimpanzees [sic] genome,” one slide emphasizes.


Despite the PowerPoint’s seemingly pro-evolution message, many people were concerned by a single slide in the presentation which depicted evolution in a negative light. According to the high school’s student newspaper, the slide included an illustration of two dueling castles—one labeled “Evolution (Satan)” and the other labeled “Creation (Christ).”

Many people were outraged by the cartoon.

“I was offended, but more shocked and disturbed that a teacher in [Atlanta Public Schools] could get away with putting that in a classroom,” one student’s parent told the school newspaper. “Offended is probably the wrong word at this point; it is very troubling to me that a teacher who is in a position of influence over children in a public school can put something up [like the cartoon].”

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Not only does the castle illustration mention creation and Christ, it also implies that a belief in evolution leads to numerous social ills, including divorce, racism, abortion, euthanasia, and homosexuality. These social issues are depicted as balloons sprouting from the evolution castle.

“[I] have gay parents,” one student told reporters, “and [the cartoon] said that evolution caused homosexuality and it implied that to be negative, so I was pretty offended by it.”

Nikolai Curtis, a science teacher at the school, said the cartoon was “not acceptable.”

“If you start adopting religious doctrine as a form of teaching, you start advocating for a religion,” he stated. “There is no national religion. When you teach religion in a public school setting, you are reinforcing a national religion, and that’s not acceptable.”

The illustration shown in Jones’s class appears to be from Ken Ham, President of the Christian apologetics ministry Answers in Genesis. Ham has repeatedly used the castle diagram over the years to represent the war of worldviews between evolution and biblical creation. In a 2009 article, Ham said the illustrations of the two castles “summarize the message of Answers in Genesis.”

“These diagrams were first produced around thirty years ago as I endeavored to illustrate, in diagram form, the concept of the foundational nature of the battle between Christianity and secular humanism,” Ham wrote.

Though most media reports have not yet attributed the illustration to Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis, many people were still outraged that Jones showed the slide to her students.

“This is egregious,” one commenter wrote. “I cannot believe this person is a science teacher.”

“I cannot believe that anyone in this day and age advocates for teaching creationism!” another asserted. “I would fire this teacher in a heartbeat. Let her go to work for a religious school where the students will be qualified to fry burgers or work at Walmart.”

Nevertheless, others defended Jones’s right to show the illustration to her class.

“Although I don’t agree with the cartoon, I also don’t agree with evolution being taught in schools and creationism [being banned],” one commenter argued. “Schools should be allowed to teach both and let the students decide what they want to believe.”

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Public Schools administrators had been made aware of the situation and had reviewed the PowerPoint in question. Jill Strickland, a spokeswoman for the schools, said the material was then “immediately removed.”

Meanwhile, Ham continues to use the castle cartoons to illustrate the importance of the evolution versus creation debate. In an articled titled “The Evolution Connection,” he explained why evolutionary beliefs often lead to sinful behavior.

“The more that generations of students are indoctrinated to believe in solely material causes for the origin of life—and the more their thinking processes are devoid of any understanding of a Creator God—the more they are led to believe that there are no absolutes and truth is relative,” he argued.

Once people deny the existence of God, Ham continued, rampant sinful behavior becomes inevitable.

“The restraining influence of absolute authority starts to dissipate,” he said.

Ham believes Christians should be prepared to defend their faith against the foundational attacks on the Bible’s authority.

“The world has attacked Christianity at a foundational level, and the church has for the most part just continued teaching Bible stories,” he asserted. “Christians need to be trained to believe God’s Word from Genesis to Revelation, and know how to defend it.”

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Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 7:06am On Jul 05, 2014
grin
LMFAO.
America sure has some dumb teachers.

He should have laughed it off, if it wasn't shown to the children.

P.S: you know the teacher could get fired, right?
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 7:40pm On Jul 07, 2014
This shows that American public schools brainwashes their students into believing evolution as facts.
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 7:56pm On Jul 07, 2014
OLAADEGBU: This shows that American public schools brainwashes their students into believing evolution as facts.
Evolution is true; it has been proven.
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Kenny4lyfe(m): 8:33pm On Jul 07, 2014
SMH ι ωσυℓ∂ тнαт тнєѕє gυуѕ кηєω тнєяє'ѕ α gяєαт ∂郃єяєη¢є вєтωєєη тяυтн αη∂ ƒα¢т! undecided
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:35pm On Jul 07, 2014
Apatheist:

Evolution is true; it has been proven.

Is this not the evidence of brainwashing? undecided
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 8:38pm On Jul 07, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

Is that not the evidence of brainwashing. cheesy
How?
Evolution can be verified independently.
You don't need "faith" or the "holy spirit" to understand and prove it.

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Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 9:20pm On Jul 07, 2014
Apatheist:

How?
Evolution can be verified independently.
You don't need "faith" or the "holy spirit" to understand and prove it.

Ok. Can you scientifically, logically and rationally give a single instance of an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 9:33pm On Jul 07, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

Ok. Can you scientifically, logically and rationally give a single instance of an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?
Chei.
See grammar. sad
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Kenny4lyfe(m): 11:16pm On Jul 07, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

Ok. Can you scientifically, logically and rationally give a single instance of an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?
*Spreads mat in anticipation*
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by EvilBrain1(m): 11:49pm On Jul 07, 2014
OLAADEGBU: This shows that American public schools brainwashes their students into believing evolution as facts.

Can you please explain to me why a teacher should be bringing up "Christ" in a science classroom?

Would you have been defending her if the cartoon had said "creation (Allah) vs evolution (Shaitan)"? Do you think a public school science class is a forum for religious proselytising? Would you like it if your child was indoctrinated into Islam or Mormonism (or any other religion you don't agree with) by a teacher whose salary comes from your taxes? Are you aware that in the US, it is illegal to use public funds to promote any religion? Do you think that the rules that allow people of different faiths (or no faith) to live side by side in peace don't apply to you? Do you think that you should be exempted from laws that protect kids from being preyed on by those who would abuse their positions of authority? Why, because your superstitions are somehow better than other peoples superstitions?

Tell me again how what this teacher did is not an embarrassment to the teaching profession, and a disservice to those poor children who just want to learn some science without a misguided and unscrupulous fanatic polluting the knowledge with religious bûllshít.

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Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 3:45am On Jul 08, 2014
Apatheist:
Evolution is true; it has been proven.
i don t know what to say to you
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 3:48am On Jul 08, 2014
Apatheist:
How?
Evolution can be verified independently.
You don't need "faith" or the "holy spirit" to understand and prove it.
if only you knew this Holy Spirit you r tkn about
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 8:24am On Jul 08, 2014
Dux01: if only you knew this Holy Spirit you r tkn about
I do-- it is imaginary. smiley

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Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 8:25am On Jul 08, 2014
Dux01: i don t know what to say to you
Then don't say nothing. smiley
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 5:47pm On Jul 08, 2014
the Holy Spirit is real he i s the third member of the trinity He is God .we are in His dipensation.He is the one who is behind all the miracles that take place.He is gentle. He is a teacher per excellence.He speaks through the still small voice.No man can overcome sin except by His power.He seals us in Christ.He is uncompromisingly Holy.He is also the consuming fire.He exists aparthiest u are just yet to know him.
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 12:23am On Jul 09, 2014
EvilBrain1:

Can you please explain to me why a teacher should be bringing up "Christ" in a science classroom?

Can you also explain to me why a teacher is teaching the religion of atheists called evolution?

EvilBrain1:

Would you have been defending her if the cartoon had said "creation (Allah) vs evolution (Shaitan)"? Do you think a public school science class is a forum for religious proselytising? Would you like it if your child was indoctrinated into Islam or Mormonism (or any other religion you don't agree with) by a teacher whose salary comes from your taxes? Are you aware that in the US, it is illegal to use public funds to promote any religion? Do you think that the rules that allow people of different faiths (or no faith) to live side by side in peace don't apply to you? Do you think that you should be exempted from laws that protect kids from being preyed on by those who would abuse their positions of authority? Why, because your superstitions are somehow better than other peoples superstitions?

Evolution as a fairytale for adults must not be taught in science class.

EvilBrain1:

Tell me again how what this teacher did is not an embarrassment to the teaching profession, and a disservice to those poor children who just want to learn some science without a misguided and unscrupulous fanatic polluting the knowledge with religious bûllshít.

What the American public school education is doing to our children is an embarrassment and disservice to the teaching profession as they should not be enforcing one religion (evolutionism) over other religions in the pretense that they are teaching science.
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 9:53am On Jul 09, 2014
Olaadegbu, Evolution is an "atheist religion"?
Yekpa!!!
O ma se o. sad

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Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by nora544: 10:07am On Jul 09, 2014
Evolution as a fairytale for adults must not be taught in science class

Did you have Biology in school or is this not taught in Nigeria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read this:

Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.[1]

All life on Earth is descended from a last universal ancestor that lived approximately 3.8 billion years ago. Repeated speciation and the divergence of life can be inferred from shared sets of biochemical and morphological traits, or by shared DNA sequences.[2] These homologous traits and sequences are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct evolutionary histories, using both existing species and the fossil record. Existing patterns of biodiversity have been shaped both by speciation and by extinction.[3]

Charles Darwin was the first to formulate a scientific argument for the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Evolution by natural selection is a process inferred from three facts about populations: 1) more offspring are produced than can possibly survive, 2) traits vary among individuals, leading to different rates of survival and reproduction, and 3) trait differences are heritable.[4] Thus, when members of a population die they are replaced by the progeny of parents better adapted to survive and reproduce in the environment in which natural selection takes place. This process creates and preserves traits that are seemingly fitted for the functional roles they perform.[5] Natural selection is the only known cause of adaptation, but not the only known cause of evolution. Other, nonadaptive causes of evolution include mutation and genetic drift.[6]

In the early 20th century, genetics was integrated with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through the discipline of population genetics. The importance of natural selection as a cause of evolution was accepted into other branches of biology. Moreover, previously held notions about evolution, such as orthogenesis and "progress" became obsolete.[7] Scientists continue to study various aspects of evolution by forming and testing hypotheses, constructing scientific theories, using observational data, and performing experiments in both the field and the laboratory. Biologists agree that descent with modification is one of the most reliably established facts in science.[8] Discoveries in evolutionary biology have made a significant impact not just within the traditional branches of biology, but also in other academic disciplines (e.g., anthropology and psychology) and on society at large
In 1865 Gregor Mendel reported that traits were inherited in a predictable manner through the independent assortment and segregation of elements (later known as genes). Mendel's laws of inheritance eventually supplanted most of Darwin's pangenesis theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:15pm On Jul 12, 2014
nora544:

Did you have Biology in school or is this not taught in Nigeria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read this:

With all of your textbook evolution, would you care to answer the question I posed earlier? undecided
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:19pm On Jul 12, 2014
Apatheist:
Chei.
See grammar. sad

Is that all you can see? How about answering the question?
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:22pm On Jul 12, 2014
Apatheist:

Olaadegbu, Evolution is an "atheist religion"?
Yekpa!!!
O ma se o. sad

You know how to exclaim in the evil supernatural and you say you don't believe in the Supernatural God? undecided
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 8:36pm On Jul 12, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

You know how to exclaim in the evil supernatural and you say you don't believe in the Supernatural God? undecided
You know how to use scientific objects like your phone and the internet, but you don't believe in scientific theories? undecided

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Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 8:38pm On Jul 12, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

Is that all you can see? How about answering the question?
I no understand the big grammar wey you blow.
Rephrase the question. smiley
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:53pm On Jul 12, 2014
Apatheist:

You know how to use scientific objects like your phone and the internet, but you don't believe in scientific theories? undecided

You need to get your money back from whoever sold you a lie that evolution is a scientific theory. cool
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:55pm On Jul 12, 2014
Apatheist:

I no understand the big grammar wey you blow.
Rephrase the question. smiley

How will you understand when you are not scientifically, rationally or logically inclined? undecided
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 8:56pm On Jul 12, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

How will you understand when you are not scientifically, rationally or logically inclined? undecided
Says the person that believes evolution is an atheist religion. undecided

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Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 8:58pm On Jul 12, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

You need to get your money back from whoever sold you a lie that evolution is a scientific theory. cool
Explain to me--without using the Bible -- how evolution is not a scientific theory.
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 9:15pm On Jul 12, 2014
Apatheist:

Says the person that believes evolution is an atheist religion. undecided

Is Evolution a Religion?

Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion—a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. . . . Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

https://answersingenesis.org/world-religions/is-evolution-a-religion/
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by OLAADEGBU(m): 9:20pm On Jul 12, 2014
Apatheist:

Explain to me--without using the Bible -- how evolution is not a scientific theory.

If it was a scientific theory you would have answered my earlier question by now. It takes blind faith to believe everything comes from nothing.
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 9:28pm On Jul 12, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

If it was a scientific theory you would have answered my earlier question by now. It takes blind faith to believe everything comes from nothing.
Who says evolution posits that everything came from nothing.
You do not even know evolution. You have not read any book about it.Religitards. Mxm
Re: Evolutionists Infuriated By Creation Cartoon Shown In Public School by Nobody: 9:47pm On Jul 12, 2014
OLAADEGBU:

Is Evolution a Religion?



https://answersingenesis.org/world-religions/is-evolution-a-religion/
From the dictionary.
Definition of religion :
religion /rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/
noun
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Definition of evolution :
evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n,ˈɛv-/
noun
1. the process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
2. the gradual development of something.
3. the giving off of a gaseous product, or of heat.
4. a pattern of movements or manoeuvres.
5. the extraction of a root from a given quantity.
In all honesty, tell me how the two definitions correlate?

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