An Uncomfortable Question

<p>A student will get a very poor education in all aspects of science if they attend extreme evangelical fundamentalist schools like Cedarville or Liberty. These people do not just take issue with the question of whether humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor in Biology classes, they are “young Earth creationists (YEC)” who consider all branches of conventional science to be “evolution” and basically claim that just about everything we know of a scientific nature is wrong. In Geology they claim the Earth is only 6.000 years old and the fossils we find are all the remains of plants and animals buried in Noah’s flood. They claim that Physicists who use radiometric methods to date rocks at millions of years old are all wrong due to a faulty understanding of Nuclear Physics, despite the fact we use that exact same theory to generate electricity all the time.</p>

<p>They claim everything taught in Astronomy courses are lies from Satan and the reason we can see objects millions of light years away in a 6.000 year old Universe is because the speed of light used to be much higher than it is now. They totally reject Big Bang Cosmology. Every aspect of every science is taught at these schools in a way to make it conform to their belief in a 6000 year old Universe and a global flood.</p>

<p>I would also doubt their claims about medical school placement. I graduated from a U.S. allopathic medical school and never as a medical student, resident or medical practice have I encountered some one who attended one of these schools.</p>