Trust in the Bible to understand creation

Trust in the Bible to understand creation
EDITOR:
The movement in Columbus to insert creationism (so-called & quot;Intelligent Design & quot;) is certainly valid.
To believe that we began as a piece of goo, ending up in the zoo, and now it's You -- is ludicrous.
The Bible was not given to teach science but rather to reveal God and His creation. But where it mentions science, it is always scientifically correct. It says: "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork & quot; (Psalms 19:1).
The earth is 93 million miles from the sun. Scientists have expressed that if we were 1 mile closer to the sun we would all burn to a crisp, and if 1 mile farther away we would all freeze to death. What evolutionist has figured that out?
Our beloved country was based on the validity of the Bible and in no way violates the Constitution. Why do witnesses in court still & quot;swear on the Bible & quot; before they testify? Because the laws of the Bible are the foundation of our whole judicial system. Our country was founded on Biblical principles as evidenced by & quot;In God we trust & quot; on our currency.
The Puritans came to escape religious tyranny in England under the state church. Separation of church and state was incorporated to prevent such tyranny to reoccur in America. But they had no intent of separating God from the state.
How wonderful to be in a country where you can believe in evolution or creation and not be under the mandatory tenets of & quot;Islamic-type-fanaticism. & quot;
To accept creation is to recognize and submit to a personal God and man in his prideful arrogance will not do it.
In all fairness, our public school young people have a right to hear both sides of the story in their biology textbooks.
WILLIAM J. FINNIGAN
Warren
Set national education goals and meet them
EDITOR:
I have watched for many years the & quot;discussion & quot; about education, which is not really discussion, but assorted monologues.
Someone once said that you weren't likely to know when you arrived if you didn't know where you were trying to go.
That is the case with education in the United States. We have certainly not in recent years established a national goal for education. It has evolved into a series of fiefdoms, each viewing the others with suspicion. I do believe the Founding Fathers had in mind the assurance of productive citizens, productive in the sense of doing something which contributed to the overall good of society and citizens in the sense of feeling a responsibility to that society.
I will probably be accused of denigrating the arts, which is not true. I believe it was in one of the McGuffey's readers that it was said: & quot;All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Our citizens need to be refreshed both in body and mind if they are to fulfill a role in that citizenry. The arts can play an important part in refreshing the mind just as exercise can play a part in refreshing the body.
It has also been said that we cannot have a progressive society without proper education. Now, that word "proper" is the focus of much diatribe. That cannot be decided until we agree on what the outcomes should be.
Unfortunately, education of educators tends to focus on methodology with content taking a lesser role. I have served on graduate committees for education majors who sincerely believed that if you knew how to teach, you could teach anything; otherwise you could teach nothing. I'm not sure, then, what I was doing all those years in engineering classes.
The point is that we need to agree on what people need to do in order to assure the functioning of our society. We need everyone from craftspersons to doctoral scientists for that purpose. We need accountants, artists, bartenders, counselors, engineers, forensic scientists, etc.
Is it possible to do all that with a single system? I believe so, if we design it with as many graceful escape levels as needed, so that anyone can find his/her place. Not everyone will, mistakes will be made both by the system and the individuals, but it could be a lot better than it is.
Let us stop haggling and get together on the real goals of an education system that can be modified to reach them.
GEORGE E. SUTTON, Ph.D., P.E.
Poland