“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future!” The Wall Street Journal recently reported the results of a new study, which suggested that schools shouldn’t wait until students are teenagers to teach evolutionary ideas. Rather, they should start in kindergarten. Now, this article’s main point is that younger children are more impressionable than teenagers—so evolutionists need to start convincing children while they’re very young! The article talks about how young children typically respond to questions about how life came to be as we see it today with answers that include a designer. The article’s author writes, “Even babies understand that human actions are ‘teleological’—designed to accomplish particular goals. . . . By elementary-school age, children start to invoke an ultimate God-like designer to explain the complexity of the world around them—even children brought up as atheists.” Of course, children believing that the universe and everything in it were designed by God isn’t acceptable to secularists. Their solution? One key way is to use picture books to teach children the evolutionary view of the universe, beginning in kindergarten. ... [Read the rest at blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/05/06/he-alone-who-owns-the-youth-gains-the-future/.]
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 16:01:07 +0000