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Genesis Apologetics

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Evolution has become a huge part of a public school education. In California, students get over 50 hours of evolution instruction before they graduate high school.

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It begins in 6th grade, where students are taught that they evolved from ape -like creatures 4 to 5 million years ago.

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In 7th grade, students cover over 80 pages of evolution in life science.

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10th grade biology includes over 150 pages. In these 3 grades alone, that's over 250 pages of teachings about evolution as fact.

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Some don't think evolution matters anymore. It carries controversy even in the church, and many deal with it by simply ignoring it.

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So, does it matter? Does it change the way students, especially

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Christian students, think? Maybe to answer that question, we have to look at today's generation.

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A recent study by Barna shows that over half of church -going teens stop attending when they reach college.

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Reasons given include boring services and legalistic or hypocritical

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Christians. But another very interesting reason is intellectual doubt. Students stop believing in the credibility of the

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Bible and the Christian faith, and consequently leave the church and the Christian faith.

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One research study interviewed 1 ,000 young adults who left the church and found that almost half began developing doubts in high school.

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When these ex -Christians were asked, what makes you question the Bible the most, 40 % said it had to do with biblical creation, including

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Noah's flood, the age of the earth, and the Genesis account. You probably know someone like this, someone who left the faith because scripture doesn't mesh with science.

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As actor Bruce Willis stated, Unfortunately, with what we know about science, anyone who thinks at all probably doesn't believe in fire and brimstone anymore.

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So organized religion has lost that voice to hold up their moral hand. That's where we come in.

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Genesis Apologetics is a 501c3 nonprofit that prepares students for evolution teaching in public schools.

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We help them by identifying the key evolution pillars that are taught in public school and developing clear, biblically grounded rebuttals for each.

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We draw all of our research from leading Christian science groups such as Answers in Genesis, the

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Institute for Creation Research, and Creation Ministries International. Our rebuttals are clear, understandable, and biblically grounded.

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This is where we need your help. We have narrowed down the list to 11 key evolutionary teachings and we have developed sound rebuttals to each.

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But videos are a lot more popular than reading materials for teenagers. So we're joining with two great teams,

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Creation Quest and Covenant Media, to develop 11 short and compelling videos that will help secure teenage

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Christians in their faith in the Bible. Our goal is to raise $60 ,000 to help develop the videos and work with over 4 ,000 youth pastors across California to promote the program.

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We will do this through Facebook marketing, pins with the web

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URL, and 250 ,000 cards that will be spread virally across school campuses.

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Will you please help by making a contribution through our fundraising account, FirstGiving?

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Your donation is even tax deductible. Evolution is a fallacy that is discouraging kids and adults from faith in Jesus Christ.

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But it can be stopped so easily. Please help us jumpstart this campaign and save the faith of thousands of youth.