Janus Project

A LOOK AT THE EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCE OF EVOLUTIONARY HUMANISM Perhaps one of the most influential concepts in the United States today is the theory of evolution.  For better or worse, this theory has managed to work its way into almost every facet of life, from education, to politics, and even into the lives of Christians themselves.  Volumes have been written both for and against the theory, but what is the crux of evolution?  Once all the scientific debate is removed, just how influential is this theory?  Diamond, in his foreward to Ernst Mayr’s work What Evolution Is , makes a powerful statement that “Evolution is the most profound and powerful idea to have been conceived in the last two centuries.” (Mayr 2001, vii)  Whatever someone’s personal bias about the theory may be, evolution  dramatically impacts education, particularly when one considers its origins, its direct impact on the beliefs of humanism, the dual impact those theories have on today’s generation, and the proper

“ SONS OF GOD ” : ANGELS, MEN, OR MISINTERPRETED? The book of Genesis was written as a warning to the children of Israel by their leader, Moses.  Since the Bible supports the belief that all Scripture is inspired, inerrant, and extant (2 Tim. 3:16), it will be assumed that Moses wrote what God said, and that God meant what He said and meant to write it as He did.  God meant to write bene elohim , with just as much purpose as He meant to use the same words in Job.  God also knew the confusion that would be caused when He wrote Matthew ’ s account of the angels not marrying.  He knew Jude and 2 Peter would also throw doubt (or provide commentary) on His words.  Indeed, as many Biblical authors have stated, God is the “ only wise God, ” (Rom. 16:27; I Tim. 1:17; Jud. 1:25) to whom is due praise and glory.  God ’ s thoughts and motives are high above anything of man ’ s work (Isa. 55:9), but it is the glory of a man to search out the hidden things (Prov. 25:2) that God has conce