Blowback

From the Friday, Feb 17, 2006, Interfaith Alliance newsletter:

Evangelist Travels US Aggressively Teaching Views Of Creationism
“Evangelist Ken Ham smiled at the 2,300 elementary students packed into pews, their faces rapt. With dinosaur puppets and silly cartoons, he was training them to reject much of geology, paleontology and evolutionary biology as a sinister tangle of lies. "Boys and girls," Ham said.

If a teacher so much as mentions evolution, or the Big Bang, or an era when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, "you put your hand up and you say, 'Excuse me, were you there?' Can you remember that?"…

A former high-school biology teacher, Ham travels the nation training children as young as 5 to challenge science orthodoxy. He doesn't engage in the political and legal fights that have erupted over the teaching of evolution. His strategy is more subtle: He aims to give people who trust the biblical account of creation the confidence to defend their views — aggressively.” (LA Times, “Their Own Version of a Big Bang,” 02-11-06)

--------------------------

I guess this logic applies to Christian ministers as well. When Mr. Ham tells someone about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, he should be asked, with confidence, "Excuse me, were you there? Can you remember that ...?"