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Have you had discussions about creation and evolution in your classroom? If so, how did those go? Is there anything you would do differently? If you have not had these discussions in your classroom, how do you think you would handle them?
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During adventure week one year we took watercolor paper and let the children put water on the canvas then they took a dropper of paint and put drops of any colors they wanted. To make their own design. “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So, it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” John 3:8” So each of the paintings was different and unique of the Holy Spirits’ design for each person’s canvas. The drop landed where it wanted to. Some drops of paint made their picture look like the universe and some like flowing water, or they would draw with toothpicks or use paint brushes to make their designs the way they wanted to. One student painted a dinosaur. It was fun and I let them know that God loves to create that is why He created us all unique.
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I have not had the discussion in my classroom as I do not teach science; however, if I did I would speak more on creation and God creating all things.
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The students will first ask me if I believed in evolution. I will state that we are made in the image of god after His likeness. I will ask them why has the chicken not turned into another creation after all these years. They will ask me about the mammoth, I will tell them that if the conditions were no longer habitable for an animal it could become extinct. God did not create the moon for us to go and live there. He created the earth and made a special garden for man to take care of. The narration of God’s creation is all true all we need is to follow the patterns carefully.
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Since I am currently I have not. My students read Defeating Darwinism, so they are exposed to the ideas but not from a positive standpoint. I would imagine you want healthy discussion where students can work out their ideas but are always pointed back to Scripture. I think too often the Bible is relegated to church only and students don’t realize it is for everyday life; that world history and Bible overlap, that science and the Bible are not at odds.
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We don’t talk about them too much in literature course, but they have come up occasionally. I try to present what i know about both views and then talk about how if we truly believe Scripture is God’s words to us, then it is Scripture that needs to be believed. Also, I try to mention how science does in fact line up with Scripture.
