Intelligent Design and the ACLU

Honest Abe said, “…we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Today we suffer quite the opposite: Government of the people, by the Supreme Court, for the ACLU.

The first Congress reenacted the Northwest Territory Ordinance of 1787, Article III of which provided: "Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." For over 200 years the teaching of and reverence for religion and morality were doctrine in American education. Then during the 1980s the Supreme Court outlawed teaching Creationism, a doctrine based in Biblical text, because it was an endorsement of religious beliefs. After thirty years of denying man’s inherent need for spiritual as well as academic nurturing, even professional school officials can no longer define “well rounded education.”

Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU, gave interviews in the mid-1970s where he readily acknowledged that the ACLU had Communist and socialist roots. He said, “I seek social ownership of all property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal." There is no doubt this social and political agenda requires destruction of traditional American values and institutions. And controlling the educational environment is key to indoctrination of future generations. Today’s school systems openly embrace the non-traditional and subcultural as normal, supposedly out of fear of ACLU law suits. So-called political correctness has replaced traditional values.

Cobb County Schools are in a legal battle over stickers that state the Theory of Evolution is a theory and should be viewed with an open mind. A federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district from teaching "intelligent design" in biology class, saying the curriculum violated the constitutional separation of church and state. The ACLU, involved in these and many similar cases, is the cornerstone of the anti-religion movement. These are people who wanted to reshape America to turn it into a socialist state, where all morals are relative.

Yet, it is clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits and protects free exercize of religion. So, why are tax-funded schools slamming the door on community values? Many of today’s educators and administrators are products of the liberal, revisionist educational environment of the last thirty years. They really believe they are acting in the best interest of America’s youth.

The legal wars are fought from an illogical position that Intelligent Design somehow negates or denies scientific inquiry, and vice versa. In the name of “good science” religious beliefs must be false. Any public acknowledgment of religious belief must be put down. Remember, the argument is not whether humans evolved from apes because Darwin never said that! The battle is not whether evolutionary theories can fully explain the origin of earthly life forms, because it cannot. The greater scheme requires only that belief in an omniscient, omnipotent being cannot exist, much less have created something from nothing.

Imagine words scattered across a page presenting a chaotic, random image. Using human intelligence design a columnar format to organize the words. Further align them into alphabetical order. Combine knowledge with experience to assign definitions to each word. The work begins to resemble a page from Webster’s dictionary. Without determining exactly how the words first appeared on the page, the exercize has proven existence of an intelligent design. Studying the words, the order and definitions in a scientific method cannot reveal the origin of the words. Acknowledging that design does exist and investigating its itegral parts, two different applications of intelligence, are not mutually exclusive.

Denying the universe displays an intelligent design is much like saying a dictionary is the result of an explosion in a print shop. Another analogy pits God against a Scientist in a competion to create a human. God opens his hand and a small amount of dust appears, which God forms into a man and breathes life into him. The Scientist reaches down and picks up a handful of dirt – then God says, “Whoa, there, get your own dirt!”

Science is the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena. Religion is belief in and reverence for a supernatural power regarded as creator and governor of the universe. Both arenas provide the truth and the inexplicable. But neither one negates the other! This simple truth is clouded by debates on personal preferences, and moral relativism – known as political correctness. It is clouded by a mission dedicated to destruction of traditional American values.

Larry Stanley
McDonough, GA
December 21, 2005