Creationism and the Birth of Our Country

Originally posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005

Before separating from England, there was much debate concerning the matter. Many people did not want to leave the protection of England although England granted the colonies few rights that he citizens enjoyed.

During meetings of the Continental Congress in 1775, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin persuaded Thomas Jefferson to write a declaration to encapsulate the reasons for independence. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence and after much debate and editing, it was eventually signed by all representatives from the 13 colonies.

In the second paragraph, the declaration states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Our country was established with the Creator in mind. In fact, for the new government to work, it had to recognize that the Creator (dare I say God) gave all men equal rights (slavery was much debated during the drafting process because some at that time did not recognize the rights of black people and others did). The thinking was that since God saw men as equal in the universe, the government should protect this universal law.

However, the very tenets of the theory of evolution are grounded in the fact that all men are NOT created equal. Some are more equal than others and therefore live longer. Those more evolved eventually dominate the species arising to a more higher form of life.

We teach evolution in our schools. So how can our children and our children's children support a government of equal rights when its state-sanctioned public school system teach that all men are not equal. The whole basis of equal rights established in our government is thereby eliminated by rejecting God and His creation.