‘Christians’ showing the love. Photo (cc) Jordan Thevenow-Harrison

Ed Darrell has set a tough problem. How do you solve the Texan education crisis? If you haven’t been following this, the Texas Education Authority has forced an employee to resign because she sent round details of a talk debunking Intelligent Design. The TEA has stated it’s neutral on whether or not children should have good education. It’s the latest round of what, in theory, is the argument between Science and Intelligent Design. It isn’t really. Everyone knows that Intelligent Design is second-rate Creationism. However I don’t think the argument is between Science and Creationism either. If it was then the debate would be as dead as phlogiston.

Even the pretence of a debate plays into the Creationists’ hands. This allows them to frame the argument as Science against Christianity. Yet if you look at the arguments it’s clear that this isn’t about Science. It’s about power. It won’t be power over scientists – they’re constrained by reality. It’s power over Christians that’s the issue. Answers in Genesis is quite open about this. Creation matters because it’s about evangelism.

That has to be a problem, because it’s not evangelism to generic Christianity. There are no More >