Why we need to teach the weaknesses of evolution

The committee overseeing science curriculum for the State of Texas caved to the politically correct crowd recently when it deleted the requirement to include the weaknesses of the theory of evolution in the classroom lessons. Why was this requirement important? Well, mostly because there are weaknesses in the theory of evolution. The pc crowd denies this, but there are scientists just as renowned as the ones pushing the evolution agenda who don't believe in evolution. They say there are too many unanswered questions.

I have no problem with teaching that a man came up with this idea of how human life evolved, and scientists along the way since then have studied it and come up with their own ideas. However, that's not how the theory of evolution is being taught. The theory of evolution is being taught as fact -- something that is far, far from certain. And our children, at quite young ages, are being brainwashed. Take, for example, the recent letter to the editor by a seventh grade boy from Parkhill Junior High in Dallas. He says that the "theory" of evolution is not a guess; that people who use the term theory in that context are using it incorrectly. Then he gives the dictionary definition of "theory."

I don't care what the dictionary says about the word "theory," or how men describe their best guesses. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and a theory with as many holes as the theory of evolution is still nothing more than a misguided guess.

So why is the pc crowd so afraid to teach the weaknesses? My theory is because if they did, they just might have to admit that God did the whole thing. And wouldn't that be a catastrophe!

"'Theory' is more than a guess." The Dallas Morning News; January 31, 2009; p. 20A.