SENTINEL WATCH June 30, 2008 Issue

'CREATION'S WONDROUS STORY'

BARBARA VINING

IT'S ALL ABOUT what the children should be taught—that raging, ongoing debate between evolutionists and those who advocate "intelligent design" creationism.

In March, the National Center for Science Education, based in Oakland, California, defended the teaching of evolution in public schools by releasing "Creationism Disproved?"—the third in a series of videos showing students how evolution works. And in April, Ben Stein, an actor-attorney, released a documentary film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, claiming to prove that scientists who question Darwin's theory of evolution are being expelled from the scientific community. What caught my attention in an article in The Blade newspaper (Toledo, Ohio) about Stein's film and the "polar-opposite" reactions to it, was this comment by one of the movie's producers: "What you're seeing is that there's nothing down the middle" (April 28, 2008).

Basically, the questions surrounding the issue are: Should the public schools teach children that they and everyone else have evolved through a long process of material development? Or should they be taught that an intelligent designer, namely God, created human beings all at once? As a Christian Scientist, I don't see a middle ground in this debate because it's stuck in a mortal, material model of creation. Christian Science presents a higher ground—a spiritual model.

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