Assumptions

Have you ever wondered why it is that so many people just assume that a scientist is right, almost regardless of what they say? I once got into an argument over evolution and many of the arguments presented for it boiled down to "because scientists say so." I have wondered since that time what makes scientists so infallible, that most people will automatically take anything they say as fact.

Having been immersed in the world of higher education for the last two years, I have been able to see what "scientists" are like. Those that I have met are smart, certainly, and they definitely know a lot about their field. However, they are really no different form a "normal" person. They just use big words and math in their explanations of how the world works. The only reason I can find that makes people assume that scientists are always right is a basic, philosophical assumption.

Government schools teach humanism in every subject. When, as the Greeks put it, "man is the measure of all things," those men that put themselves ahead of the pack will be idolized. This is seen in sports, as well as in the academic realm. Rather than taking what those people do and say, and examining it in light of a higher authority (i.e. God's word), a person with humanist assumptions will not even think of there being a higher authority than man. This is an extremely dangerous way for a single person to function, when a society becomes humanist, there is very little to stop it from swinging to either anarchy or dictatorship. If man is the highest authority, either the selfishness of human nature will drive a society into anarchy, or the idolatry of a great leader will drive it into a dictatorship.

The culture battle in America is not limited to any one area of society. Humanism has taken over the founding principles of much of America. A structure is nothing without it's foundation, and the Christian principles that America was founded on will not survive having their foundational assumptions replaced by those of humanism. The only way that America can continue to be a Christian nation is if, in the years when children are forming the foundation of their beliefs, they are taught from a Biblical, Christian point of view.