Tuesday February 19, Creation Science Evangelism attended the Florida State Board of Education meeting where the Board voted to include “the scientific theory of evolution” as “the fundamental concept underlying all of biology” into law in its public school science standards. Subsequently, Florida followed a trend sweeping the nation in an attempt to eliminate a teacher’s freedom to question evolution. View a news report and press release regarding this decision.

One by one, other states can expect similar attempts to silence teachers. But while a teacher may or may not have the academic freedom to question evolution, one thing still remains – a student can always bring up the discussion, freeing the teacher to openly discuss the weaknesses of evolution.

One student did just that.  In January, sophomore Kayla Manicks contacted CSE offices with a prayer request for her high school.  After a number drug- and alcohol-related fatalities, bomb threats, and suicide attempts by her peers, Kayla said, “Everything [in our school] is going haywire.”

Kayla, acknowledging that evolution has much to do with the reason the majority of students in her high school are atheists and agnostics, was burdened to make a difference.  Creation Science Evangelism was happy to help and encouraged her to seek the support of her local church. Two days later we equipped her with dozens of our Are You Being Brainwashed? booklets and informed her of her rights as a student to challenge the indoctrination of evolution and distribute the material to her classmates.

Just two weeks later, Kayla contacted us with amazing testimonies! She led an effort with her youth group to distribute the booklets and in one week two of her peers have been saved, two more are coming to church, her youth group is “fired up,” and even some atheists have begun questioning evolution. Kayla says, “I am so excited for our school and the lost students. God is doing such a wonderful work in some of the students’ hearts and some of the students’ consciences.”

Creation Science Evangelism wants to empower more students to use their rights in the classroom to respectfully question the flaws of evolution and lead classmates to the truth.  Do what Kayla did and help get this life-changing material into the hands of public school students.