Question evolution! campaign

Dr. Carl Wieland is the Managing Director of Creation Ministries International

The Question evolution! campaign, launched by the biblical creation organization Creation Ministries International, is a "grass-roots movement to challenge the anti-Christian dogma of evolution". The focus of the Question evolution! campaign is on 15 questions that evolutionists cannot answer. The campaign will be primarily conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa.

In May of 2011, Creation Ministries International and the Traditional Values Coalition decided to jointly initiate a question evolution campaign which encourages to students and others to "question the evolutionary pseudoscience peddled to them" and to wear anti-evolution clothing and pass out Question evolution! tracts within their schools and community. The Traditional Values Coalition is a church lobbying organization that lobbies for over 43,000 American churches. The campaign features tracts, t-shirts, badges, mugs, etc. and students are being encouraged to participate in the campaign.

Question evolution! campaign and Texas

See also: Question evolution! campaign and Texas

Texas is a very influential state in the United States when it comes to biology textbooks. A supporter of Creation Ministries International with a large Christian YouTube audience has declared he is going to aggressively promote the Question evolution! campaign in Texas.

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The popular Christian YouTube producer, Shockofgod, has vowed to promote the Question evolution! campaign aggressively in the state of Texas due to its large influence on textbooks throughout the United States. Shockofgod is an ex-atheist and his channel features many anti-atheism videos. His YouTube videos have cumulatively received millions of views since his YouTube channel's inception.

In 2010, the Utne Reader declared concerning Texas's influence on national textbooks:

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The politicized textbooks would be a problem just inside Texas, but economic factors have given the state a huge influence over textbooks throughout the country. Unlike many other states, Texas makes the decisions on a state level on what books local school districts can buy. So when the state makes a decision on what books to purchase for its 4.7 million high schoolers, publishers take notice. The only bigger market for textbooks in the country is California, a state whose budget is in such disarray, it announced that it won’t be buying new books until 2014. In the meantime, an anonymous industry executive told Washington Monthly, “publishers will do whatever it takes to get on the Texas list,” even if that means caving in to right-wing activists.

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Texas is expected to purchase $1 billion in textbooks in 2012-13.

In addition, Shockofgod has challenged Texas YouTube atheists Matt Dillahunty and AronRa to answer the 15 questions for evolutionists which are featured in Creation Ministries International's Question Evolution campaign.

Related anti-evolution efforts at the time of the question evolution campaign

In 2011, the results of a study was published indicating that most United States high school biology teachers are reluctant to endorse the theory of evolution in class. At the time of the question evolution campaign, other creationists plus intelligent design proponents were engaged in legislative actions encouraging students to critically examine the evolutionary paradigm. In 2011, eight anti-evolution bills were introduced into United States state legislators encouraging students to employ critical thinking skills when examining the evolutionary paradigm. In 2009, there were seven states which required critical analysis skills be employed when examining evolutionary material within schools.

See also

• Evolution
• Atheism
• Atheist Population

External links

• Question Evolution! by Creation Ministries International
• Question Evolution! - YouTube video