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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 these discussions in my classroom on many occasions. I like to take a two-fold approach. Primarily, I discuss with them the importance of Scripture and the significance of holding to the veracity of the Scripture. If we start saying certain parts of the Bible aren’t completely true, that is a slippery slope. Secondarily, I point them to scientific evidence of creation and show them data that points to the unlikeliness of evolution. Ken Ham is an excellent resource for this.
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I had a child who was very interested in dinosaurs, which is not something we discussed in class. He was a high level student and I wanted to engage with him. We discussed what fossils had been found, what eras they belonged in and how scientists came to those conclusions. In a public school, that would have been the end. But since I work at a Christian school, we discussed the creation story. We talked about why scientists think the earth is millions of years old versus what Christians know from the creations story in Genesis and I let him float possible ideas about why there is a difference in the two scenarios. I also talked to him mom about how we had talked and she spoke with him about what the Bible says about creation as well.
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Yes, in past homeschool curricula such as Apologia science, I have had the opportunity to engage students in the conversation of creation and compare and contrast it to evolution. I’m looking forward to future conversations about creation and evolution in my new teaching role in a private Christian high school.
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Yes, as the curriculum had laid out, I have taught in the classroom. It went fine if I stuck to the exposure of the theory of evolution and how to use discernment. It is a difficult line with the parents and their beliefs may differ from the school.
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We recently discussed the Webb telescope and how it doesn’t prove what scientists hoped it would. The telescope sides with the Word of God, His creation is perfect and is made whole by His grace and lovingkindess. God is the master creator. Even talking in words of mankind evolving , by definition, would mean God made a mistake at creation. We know God doesn’t make mistakes so creation can evolve. Answering the question the chicken or the egg. The telescope proves the chicken. All discussions lead back to God has all the answers we need to make it to Heaven. He has all the answers we need, seek Him for guidance and understanding.
