This book bears out what is stated in the present article in this connection and all Christian parents should demand that it be studied whenever the question of biological origins is taught in schools.
Furthermore, after the article was written, the author's attention was also drawn to a recent publication, which confirms his contentions that (a) the materialist philosophy of "naturalism" has permeated the whole fabric of Western society, and (b) this has resulted in the public replacement of Christian morality with a "permissive" one that does not acknowledge any responsibility to God, our Creator.
The book in question, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education (1995, Intervarsity Press, Illinois, U.S.A.) should be compulsory reading for any Christian who is engaged in the work of attempting to rid our society of the permissiveness which takes the form of public approval of abortion on demand, promiscuity in both homosexual and heterosexual lifestyles, a damaging so-called sex education for innocent children, pornography, etc.
It was written by Phillip E. Johnson, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., whose earlier book, Darwin on Trial is highly recommended in this article.
It is unfortunate that ever since the publication of Darwin's book many Christians have believed they could take a middle position between the naturalistic hypothesis of evolution and creation by God. This middle position (theistic evolution), however, contains two fundamental errors.
Firstly, it wrongly assumes that naturalistic evolution is part of natural science, even though it cannot be observed or empirically tested; and secondly, it wrongly accords to what is no more than the philosophy of naturalism (nature is all there is, was and ever will be) the status of a scientific paradigm.
The widespread adoption of theistic evolution by Christians has had the effect of stifling criticism of the atheistic hypothesis, thereby allowing the rationalists to dictate the terms of what is supposedly education in the science of origins.