Such events have occurred many times during my experience as a creation ministries speaker. Again and again, we hear ministers claim that we would only confuse students and so should not be allowed into schools. These ministers are oblivious to the fact that students are being told there is no God and everything (including man) is a result of random chance. Our message is simple. We are telling the students there is a God, that He is Creator, and the Bible can be trusted. How can men, who are supposed to be caring pastors, prefer that students be told there is no God? These men have no faith in their own pilgrimage. How can they ever hope to shepherd others? They should actually visit the school and ask the students what the teaching of evolutionism is doing to them.

In one church school in Tasmania, Australia, the official position was to teach evolution with God added to it. The local bishop tried his hardest to prevent my visit to the school, but one of the teachers was allowed to present the creationist position to the class, and he invited me as a special speaker. At the conclusion of my presentation, 69 of the 70 girls surrounded me and verbally attacked my stand on creation. They shouted statements such as: "There is no God!" "Buddhism is better than Christianity!" "Evolution is true!" "You cant trust the Bible!" "The Bible is full of mistakes!" "We are not interested in what you have to say." Because of the compromise with evolutionism, they were even less open to Gods Word than public school students. They attended a "church" school. Why wouldnt they know the "truth?" So far as they were concerned, they already had all the answers. One young girl, however, came to me with tears in her eyes. She thanked me for the foundation given her faith. She said she was a Bible-believing Christian and that she found it very hard to be in that particular school, as the teachers were attempting to destroy her faith in Christianity. They had obviously weakened the faith of many of the other girls in the class.

During a question time at one church, the minister raised a vital question. Because there was no Christian school in the district that taught from the creationist perspective, should parents be advised to send their children to the local public school with its known anti-Christian philosophy or to the compromising Christian school? There was silence as the congregation awaited my answer.