Compromise at it's greatest!

What is it in our schools and universities that seems to invite the most accepting and tolerant yet the most undiscerning and illogical types of instructors? Perhaps it is based in the source of curriculum or the societal demand for our educational compromise. From a Christian perspective, though, one can see that we have been found wanting in several areas of education and have accepted the current state of our knowledge base.

Today, I was talking with a new friend about a class we had together. As we got further into the study, we found out exactly why she'd been having so many problems with our historical geology class.

"I just don't believe it! That's why things have been so hard for me to understand." I thought about what she had said, and it brings up one thought that we should all consider more often.

Why is it that the world wants to shut us up about the Bible when everyone claims to be founded in tolerance for different beliefs? Double standards characterize much of the logical fallacies that are taught as theory and law in our education system. We cannot appeal to the spiritual minds of the Bible, yet scientists can appeal, in a very Argumentum-ad-Verecundiam manner, to their own scientific "oracles" such as Leonardo Divinci, Aristotle, and Plato. Some textbook writers even have the desparation and audacity to appeal to general agreements of other evolutionary or humanistic researchers.

To be honest, I'm not personally surprised with the direction our nation is going. The world constantly works much harder to complicate things than they do to listen to the simple truth. The result is a generation, if not a civilization, ruled in majority by confused students of modern science. Thinking over this situation, I can see why my friend was confused: she's one of the few in the world who sees this blind acceptance as a compromise.

Pretending like there's no problem with this ideology makes one just as guilty as those who preach it from the lecturn(II John 7-13). You don't have to be force fed lies just because you're a student. In fact any student has the responsibility to verify all that the teacher says, no matter the setting (Acts 17:11). Truth can be taught to unbelievers. If it were not so, God would not have created us (Ephesians 2:10).

God's truth allows us to see the compromise into complexity that the world entertains itself with daily. Keep an open mind and a discerning heart (IITimothy 1:7).