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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 not had such discussions, but if I did I would focus on the belief that each one of us (frail as we are) were created in God’s image for a purpose known by our benevolent Creator. I also would explore evolution as also God-directed over much time but point out how the biblical worldview and evolution often are opposed.
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Yes, I have had discussions about evolution in my class. Students were eager to know how we all came into existence. We compared and contrasted from science and the bible and came to the understanding that everything was created by God.
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Yes it does come up in ancient civilizations with 6th graders. I ask them what they think when they see the pages with evolving monkeys on them, and many say it is false and that God created mankind and the world, and we can have a discussion about how our textbooks don’t always have Biblically-based info and that God created the world and mankind. We can also talk about how evolution can and does happen in the world, such as with animals or rock formations evolving/changing over time, but that God is still the ultimate creator and architect of everything in our world.
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In my 6th grade Bible class, we read through Genesis 1 together, and discuss creation. I take a very literal approach. In history, we briefly discuss the theory of evolution, in contrast to biblical creation. Any science-based questions students bring up, I refer to our science teacher, of whom I inquire as well, so that I am more prepared to answer next time.
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Yes. And I make it clear that God created the heavens and the earth and that they were created in the Imago Dei. They did not come from a lower form of life.