Britons not biting Darwin's bait

Good news from across the pond this week as a UK think tank, Theos, released its thoroughly independent findings that up to 50% of adult Britons do not believe in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Though the survey results would seem to suggest that the citizens of the United Kingdom are welcoming the Lord Jesus Christ back into their lives, it is of course important to remember that the atrocious state of education in Britain likely means that students graduate without ever having heard of evolution. As such, this would make it more difficult for them to make an informed rejection of it.

Others are more outspoken. “He’s absolutely rubbish,” fumed one student. “I can’t see why they make us read his stupid books. A Tale of Two Cities was awful, and Bleak House was SO boring.”

Many Americans – the ones who watch the news – the global news – have been growing alarmed at the success of the UK’s atheist bus campaign. The advertisements’ hateful slogan, “There’s probably no god, now stop worrying and enjoy your life” has caused a furor in the cities where it has debuted. Several newspapers report that the number of raised eyebrows and bemused shrugs have nearly doubled in London, a city usually renowned for its inhabitants’ stolid impassivity.

Faithful Americans can therefore take comfort in the fact that their transatlantic cousins are apparently rejecting the insidious culture of scientific elitism. Education experts in the United Kingdom have long suspected that the elevated academic positions offered by institutions such as the Royal Academy only serve to make the rest of the country feel bad. By rejecting Darwin and his firmly entrenched supporters, who have for far too long dictated the course of learning in both countries with their narrow-minded and intolerant dogma, science will become more receptive to competing theories and theorettes, such as Intelligent Design.

This underlines another facet of education which faithful Christians have always argued: scientific truths should be democratically determined. Just as Pythagoras only arrived at his famous theorem after three days of intense negotation with local mathematicians, Americans and Britons must dictate to the educational elitists what they want to be taught, rather than the other way round.

We now believe that the square of a right triangle’s hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the remaining two sides thanks in part to the input of unionized Aegean olive farmers, who felt disenfranchised by the theorem in its draft form. Why not recognize the fervently held beliefs of righteous creationists and incorporate scripture into scientific theory too? If science is truly committed to discovering the Truth, it should not risk alienating a significant group of believers who think they have a pretty good idea what that means.

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