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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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I have had many discussions about the evidence for creation and evolution and other theories of origins. The students were interested in learning the strengths and weaknesses of each side of the debate. The fact that they were created by a loving eternal Father gives them assurance that their lives are not aimless accidents, that they have a purpose and make decisions in line with what God wants for them. We worked on some projects preparing debates involving the fossil record, design in nature, DNA is a language given by an Intelligent Mind and other topics.
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I teach second grade so I cannot go into much depth with the students, but once I teach them about the 6 days of Creation, I then refer back to them all throughout the year and help them understand those are the basic foundations on which we build all of our lives. When we are reading secular books, I teach them how to look for information that would be an evolutionary view and how they can use Scripture to see where that is not what God’s Word states. Once the students grow in their understanding, they can then find it for themselves in books and they will come to me and show me. I then take that time to ask them the “WHY?” questions to help them begin defending why they believe what they believe. I do not want them to say it is because it is what I taught them, but that it is from God’s Word.
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As a science teacher, my courses discuss evolution, intelligent design/theistic evolution, old earth, and young-earth creation. We discussed the need for some sort of faith in each of these theories. We also asked the questions that evolution could not answer such as the question of meaning.
As a math teacher, we have discussed evolution from a probability standpoint. On these occasions, I incorporated works by John Lennox to discuss the improbability of evolution.
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Anytime there is discussion about creation versus evolution I always point back to Genesis. If you believe that the Word of God is true then we need to base our belief on what God has told us about creation. Most times this discussion goes well, but once in a while I talk to folks who do not believe in Biblical authority and so we tend to have differing opinions.
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If evolution came up in my classroom, I would feel the need to say where it does align with a biblical understanding of creation but also highlight where evolution contradicts truths we find in scripture (which is our foundation).