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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus9/12/2013 11:34:01 pm PDT

The sky is blue,
the grass is green,
and America is still America
in 2013:

An Indianapolis news outlet informs us:

‘In search of the truth’

Whether an individual believes that a spiritual being created the universe or that it simply evolved over time, organizers of the annual Creation Evidence Expo promise them an engaging series of activities.

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The expo, which is being promoted with the theme “In search of the truth,” will include interactive displays, books, family entertainment and several exhibits and workshops that discuss the origins and age of the Earth to highlight evidence of the world’s creation by a spiritual being.

Presenters will also offer scientific and archeological “evidence” that they say proves the world was “intelligently designed” by a high spiritual being.

Rev. Frederick Boyd, pastor of Zion Unity and a founder of the Creation Evidence Expo, said its goal is to offer a venue in which educators, pastors and scientists can explore and discuss research that they believe proves that science supports the theory that God created the Earth approximately 6,000 years ago and events recorded in the Bible are historically and scientifically sound.

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Also included this year will be a debate about human evolution and dinosaurs. Prominent speakers include Dr. Jay Wile, a prominent atheist who became a Christian, Dr. Willie Dye, one of the nation’s few African-American biblical archeologists, Dr. A. Charles Ware, president of Crossroads Bible College, and Bruce Malone, scientist, chemist and author.

Within the last quarter century, a movement known as “young Earth creationism” has grown in the Protestant Christian community of the United States.

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Supporters of the movement began to mobilize in 1987 after the U.S. Supreme Court declared that teaching creationism; the religious-based belief that the universe was created by a supreme being, in public schools is unconstitutional.

Until that time, creationism had been taught in many public schools as a theory on how the world came into existence right alongside evolution, the scientific belief that humans evolved into our current form over millions of years from earlier versions of humans that were related to animals.

In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the teaching of intelligent design (the science-based belief that the world was designed) as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, which upholds separation of church and state.

Since then, creationist Christians have been upset that evolution is essentially the only state-endorsed theory of Earth’s origins taught in public schools. Creation activists in Indiana are working to convince legislators, educators and parents to help bring creation science, or at least intelligent design, back into schools.

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This is not a religious event, it is a science-based educational event,” Boyd said. “Our goal is to promote truth in education, because you can’t teach something unless it has been proven to be factually true.”

Decide for yourself

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Oh yes, decide for yourself. By all means, reality is up for your discretion.

“This is not a religious event…” - these people are serial liars. They have lied so much to themselves that they are incapable of stating the simplest of truths.