Why are tax dollars being used to promote something that is harmful to society? Fairy Tales
If you have not read Stories Versus Truth, you may want to read that before reading this.
Why are Tax Dollars Being Used To Promote Fairy Tales That Are Harmful To Society?
Short Answer
It is hard to understand why tax dollars are still being used to promote evolution. Evolution, as it is taught in the schools, is a fabrication that few believe. Evolution isn't science. Evolutionism, a set of concepts developed hundreds of years ago and debunked today, is a New Age religious doctrine for which there is no scientific evidence. Since evolutionists have no evidence, and since the New Age religion does not condemn the practice but rather honors the practice, evolutionists have become very skilled at telling Fairy Tales, that is lying. Though few people really believe that they are the descendents of fish, or, sillier yet, a rock, evolution is destroying our society because it is used as an excuse for bad behavior.
When evolution is seen as a storytelling game rather than a serious attempt at scientific explanation, it suddenly makes sense. - See more at: http://crev.info/2013/11/evolutionary-stories/
Detailed Answer
Though the story of Evolution is an amazingly creative fabricated story, you will find that evolutionists avoid calling it a lie. It's like the story about Santa Clause. They tell people this story, and they don't want to burst anyone's bubble, so they keep telling everyone that it's really, really real. I suppose they could just call this fabrication, a SSWAAFT. That's an acronym for Scientific Sounding Wild And Amazing Fairy Tale.
The Evolutionists tell their SSWAAFT, and the free Government tax money keeps coming in to them. Then, they can use some of the Government tax money to try to elect worldly politicians who are members of their own religion, Humanism, sometimes called Secularism. Those politicians who seek to propagate Humanism, in turn, make sure that they get more free Government tax money. It works out well for everyone... except it doesn't work out too well for the rest of us.
Every time evolutionists start a creative story with "Millions and millions of years ago..." you know that you are now going to hear a fairy tale. They could just as well start with, "Long ago and far away..." or "Once upon a time..." Evolution is just a fairy tale about the origin of the world and about life itself. You and I know that, but the job of the evolutionist is to convince people that evolution is more than just hype.
Hundreds of years ago, the evolutionistic speculative rational-lies-zation was made up using some sketchy facts and plenty of imagination. Now, in the light of present-day knowledge, these stories appear quaint and humorous, but there was a day when people took them quite seriously. Less than 5% of the population believes in the type of evolution that is taught in our public schools, making the job of the evolutionist very discouraging.
It's difficult to make people believe that they are descendants of fish as every theory that tries to sell the idea of evolution claims. It's even harder to make them believe they came from a rock, but that is what evolutionism claims. It may be amazing that Almighty God created everything from nothing because He was able to do it, but it is not believable to claim that everything created itself from nothing.
Increasingly, scientists are trying to distance themselves from this defunct molecules-to-man evolution conjecture / fabrication, though the majority still are being coerced into trumpeting the fanciful story. Only fanatics and the financially motivated are hanging in there. (There is great anti-creation bias and prejudice in the government tax funding of science. The Humanist religionists are in the ruling position, and they are using their power.)
Since we're just talking about a fairy tale, it's nothing to get up tight about. It's the doctrine of a religion known as Humanism. A chief teaching of the Humanist religion is rational-lie-zed speculation, which is the belief that the human mind has the ability to create miraculous revelations of truth without the benefit of observation. No one should get too attached to any idea as far out as rational-lie-zed speculation, but most everyone falls into the trap of rational-lie-zed speculation from time to time. Well, maybe a really devoted follower of the Humanist religion might get dogmatic about the concept of rational-lie-zed speculation, but I would hope for more from you. Since you're open-minded, relax, have some fun, and enjoy this guide to some of the really wacky parts evolution's wild story.
In the 1800s, scientists developed the molecules-to-man evolution conjecture / fabrication using advanced techniques of rational-lie-zed speculation. Since then, generations of scientists have used up the excess free money that government makes readily available, feverishly trying to find some evidence to support the beautiful and creative theory that they had discovered.
So far, they haven't come close to finding any evidence, but these brave warriors fight a non-ever-ending battle, trying valiantly, if not to prove evolution, to bamboozle the public into believing that they might one day be able to prove evolution. After all, if the evolutionists can get people to believe in evolution, then they can get them to believe that there is no basis for morals and that life is meaningless because everything happens by random chance. Then they will be able to believe just those things that they want to be true. They can promote drugs, depravity, dishonesty, immorality, envy, murder of the defenseless, and anything else they want to promote. They have been largely successful in this, and have quite a number of people acting like the kind of animals evolutionism tells them that they are.
Of course, the job of the evolutionist is made more difficult by the fact that the whole concept of evolution is so silly. But silliness is a great profession as long as you take it seriously. Just study Dan Rather and Peter Jennings and others who take rational-lie-zed speculation way too seriously. Notice how they can speak on many subjects, looking and sounding as if they were telling the truth, yet telling fabrications with enough fact to fool people. This is a skill that an aspiring evolutionist will want to develop.
Keep in mind, also, that each new discovery holds the possibility that perhaps evolutionists may yet be able to make some sense of the silly theory. The trouble is, of course, that each new discovery does just the opposite. Each new discovery makes it harder to believe in evolution. Anyway, you do have to hand it to those dedicated men and women, continuing to proclaim the gospel of evolution after spending all this free government money and actually just digging themselves into an ever-deepening hole. Such persistence in the face of utter failure does reflect a very high degree of dogmatism.
Evolutionists claim that evolution was the mechanism by which all the various plants and animals were created. Obviously, the only way that empirical science ever could be used to prove the evolutionist's proposition would be to go back in time and observe evolution happening. If they could go back in time, though, what a surprise they would get!
To show some evidence in the fossil record could potentially prove evolution to be possible explanation for that fossil record. However, the fossil evidence conflicts with every possible SSWAAFT of evolution, so the fossil record is of no assistance to those who think they want to prove the precepts of evolutionism.
So, how do evolutionists react to the fact that the geologic column and the fossil record look as if they happened suddenly from a world-wide flood? How do they react to the fact that the geologic column and the fossil record do not support the idea of evolution at all?
Of course, followers of Humanism are not bound by Biblical principles of truth. The evolutionists falsely continue to declare that the fossil record and the geologic column prove evolutionism's claims.
There is no evidence anywhere from which you can prove evolution. All an evolutionist has are some made-up stories. All evolution can ever be (from the standpoint of science) is a SSWAAFT.
Evolutionists are forced to hold on tightly to some basic presuppositions. Evolution is, after all, a fabricated story that is based on arbitrary assumptions and rationalizations and told for the purpose of explaining the creation without the Creator. Evolutionistic presuppositions are just simple-minded assumptions. They are filters and a way to censor out any information that supports the existence of God. They set up a web of rules to filter out God. They will only accept those things that conform to Naturalism, Materialism, and Uniformitarianism. Naturalism claims that God does nothing. Materialism claims that there is no God or spiritual realm. Uniformitarianism claims that there was not creation and that there was no violent worldwide flood, as the Bible and numerous other historical accounts record. Whatever they observe that does not conform to this complex filter is censored. The way that it is censored can take several forms. Evolutionists may boldly proclaim that, though the data appears to support design and refute Evolution, yet it still must be interpreted to mean just the opposite of what it does mean. A backup method that Evolutionists use is to prophecy that in the future, science will be able to explain what they see as an anomaly. If that fails, they will hide the data, set it aside, or lie to keep the public from knowing the truth. The data clearly demolishes the story of Evolution and clearly supports the reality of the Creator God and His creation of the Universe and everything in it in a relatively short period of time. When confronted with the obvious, a closed-minded Evolutionists says, "Show me the design--I can't see it." They are willingly ignorant because they refuse to hold God in their knowledge. The reality is that these people, for whatever reason, don't what to know the Creator. They don't want to truly know Jesus, their Creator.
Summary
Evolution was a hypothesis until it was thoroughly disproved. Evolution isn't science. A hypothesis that has been disproved should never be called a theory--except as a joke, of course. Evolution is actually the SSWAAFT of Evolution, not the molecules-to-man evolution conjecture / fabrication (and there is no existing legitimate Theory of Evolution--at best it is a conjecture, or it is more likely a fabrication, a lie.). Tax money should be cut off from the perpetrators of this lie, and no tax money should be used to tell this lie in our schools.