Indoctrination

I am thinking back to the conversation I had last Sunday with the assistant pastor regarding evolution. His father, who was also part of this conversation, was very insistent that atheists are using evolution as a way of infiltrating and imposing their views on society. That's news to me, but in the interest of fairness I decided to start paying more attention to see if I can catch those darn atheists in the act.

And what do you know? In the very first chapter of our laboratory animal technician training manual, I came across a reference to Galen, the 2nd century CE Greek physician who is generally considered the father of modern medical science. Just one simple little subversive sentence. Galen, it seems, insisted that the only valid observations were those based on experimentation. Horrors!

Why is this so subversive? Because it is giving a heads-up that a different kind of thinking is required here. Conclusions must be based on evidence, not on faith, not on feeling.

Here is the crack in the edifice. Taken to its logical conclusion it says there is no room for God in the laboratory. The history of science is a history of pushing God back little by little. He is required less and less for explanations of how the world works; reduced to "God of the Gaps." Oh, yes, this is atheistic propaganda indeed!