Creation Moment 6/18/2014 - Orwellian Evolutionist

"Boston University psychologist Deborah Kelemen has led the latest National Science Foundation funded research to help teach evolution. Her technical report appears in the journal Psychological Science. The aim of her research was to intentionally “suppress” children’s “commonsense ways,” and to “explain why animals have functional traits and show signs of apparent design.”


According to the Psychological Science report, prior research had shown that “children in preschool and early elementary school show teleological biases to explain the origins of natural objects’ properties by reference to functions.”

Brainwashing the little lambs with evolution

Kelemen then investigated the merits of exposing young children to a “non-goal-directed population-based process of differential survival and reproduction.” This way, even kids can understand that animal designs which look like they were built with a goal in mind actually arose by natural processes that had no goals and no mind.

People everywhere generally recognize the straightforward analogy between living things and man-made structures. Both have multiple parts working together for a specific purpose. Even young children do not need formal tutoring to discern that mechanical devices do not make themselves and that people make them with a “goal-directed design.” According to Kelemen, this early-age intuition of design impedes belief in natural selection.

Her storybooks illustrate how death helps by exterminating certain trait-bearers from populations. That is how “the selectionist mechanism” supposedly works.² Other researchers summarized the issue when they wrote, “death is selective.”³ Evolutionist Richard Lewontin likewise recounted death as Darwin’s vital key to any adaptive process.⁴ Kelemen used the kids’ love for a good story to reinforce death’s role in evolution. She wrote, “The story is about life and death. Kids want to know what is going to happen next.”

The candid and enthusiastic embrace of training kindergarteners to “suppress competing intuitive” explanations has the flavor of Orwellian mental manipulation, with people coerced into accepting inconsistent concepts without dissent. Since advocates are psychological professionals trained to understand how young minds operate—and society entrusts them to use that knowledge for good—using them to teach Darwinism sounds even more perverse. Isn’t this essentially using a method of thought reform to indoctrinate a young child’s mind?" ICR

Train up a child in the way he should go:

and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6