A Christian in a Secular University - Message #332

How should a college professor, who is a Christian, handle his classes in astronomy and physics? Should he keep quiet about his faith? Or should he let his students know from where he is coming?

Dr. Darrell Parnell of Washburn University told his students that he was not an evolutionist. He believes the God of the Bible created the universe. He told his students there was a difference between science and a philosophy concerning the origin of the universe.

Dr. Phillip Johnson, a University of California law professor, challenged the theory of evolution on the same basis. "The question is whether Darwinism is a scientific theory that can be tested with scientific evidence." Dr. Johnson's answer said "no." He said there are serious intellectual problems with evolution. And Dr. Johnson said, "The most important is the fossil problem, because this is a direct record of the history of life on earth." Here is the problem as Dr. Johnson related it. "The fossil record is something that the Darwinists have had to explain away, because what it shows is the sudden appearance of organisms that exhibit no trace of step-by-step development from earlier forms." And so Dr. Johnson concludes that evolution is "a religious position, not a scientific position."

Meanwhile, back at Washburn University, Dr. Darrell Parnell was challenging his students to examine their assumptions as they came into the classroom. In his first astronomy lecture Dr. Parnell tried to get his students to look at their assumptions. He showed them that science involves the study of repeatable phenomena. Of course, that means evolution is not scientific!

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