I live in central Indiana, an area of the country that – though it certainly has its share of activists and revolutionaries – is not exactly a hotbed of radical left-wing progressive thought. Still, as we inch closer to the start of the 2021 school year, conversation in our rural communities and small cities has turned to the attempted covert implementation of so-called Critical Race Theory in public school curriculum.
Concerned parents are sounding the alarm in multiple school districts, fully aware that textbook companies are generating one-size-fits-all material for classrooms around the country, not producing a separate set that is specific to rural values. They are also wisely attuned to the fact that university conformist factories are turning out a significant pool of future educators who have been trained to believe that they are the front-line warriors in an epic battle to reshape America's character. Anyone who still believes that it is Christian conservatives who spend their free time plotting the next front in our culture war needs only to walk onto a college campus to have the scales fall from their eyes.
But along those lines, with as pleased as I am to see parental diligence and concern over the neo-racist material that many are attempting to teach their children, it frustrates me to compare that to the overwhelming apathy and complacency so many of those same parents have, and nearly two generations of parents have had, to an even more destructive man-made philosophy being ingrained as fact in young hearts and minds.
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were in EPCOT while spending some time together in Walt Disney World. Riding the park's flagship attraction, Spaceship Earth, I couldn't help but mention to her how little we even bat an eye at some of the illogical assumptions just accepted as fact now. As the ride begins, we are treated to eerie scenes of nomad hunters working together to trap a wooly mammoth for food. Dame Judi Dench, the attraction narrator, explains the scene:
"Here, in this hostile world, is where our story begins. We are alone, struggling to survive until we learn to communicate with one another. Now we can hunt as a team and survive together."
As the ride vehicle moves into the next scene, where cavemen are seen heating things over fire and drawing on the walls, Dench drops the bomb:
"It takes 15,000 years to come up with the next bright idea: recording our knowledge on cave walls."
Huh? Are we just going to pretend that it isn't patently absurd to think that human beings couldn't get from working together to trap food to writing on cave walls any quicker than 15,000 years? Considering that it took just under 60 years for us to go from a horse and buggy to standing on the surface of the moon, is that early timeline for human development not laughably ludicrous?
To reasonable minds capable of critical thinking it would be. But our generation has been thoroughly indoctrinated with the unproven assumptions behind Darwinian thought. We have accepted as the de facto "religion of the state" this 19th-century thinker's best attempt to explain how life could exist without the involvement of God, and as a result, students have been forbidden from seeing, hearing, or being exposed to any of the myriad of scientific problems, holes, and galling gaps that we know exist in the suppositions of Darwinian science.
Even as science has now demonstrated that there is no conceivable, mathematical, logical way that life could have arisen or animated from dead material on this planet or any other, schools have been explicitly forbidden from acknowledging it. We have forced them to double down on the falsity, excusing the fatal flaws of Darwinian thought by claiming it just needed more "time" to unfold. That's why the age of the universe has consistently increased with each iteration of textbooks that deal with the history of the natural world. If you're keeping track, it's now up to 14 billion years old.
This produces the kind of kooky timelines like those expounded upon by Dame Judy in Walt Disney World. But nobody questions it or laughs at it anymore because it has become culturally entrenched.
That's the power of academic indoctrination – the very thing that parents are reasonably wanting to prevent when it comes to some of the harebrained racist thoughts embraced by CRT. I appreciate the effort and have written about what I think are the best ways to do so here, largely because I can't even imagine the things I'll be learning on Spaceship Earth in another 20 years if we don't.
