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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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Yes as a science teacher we teach an entire unit on evolution and discuss it in detail. We always start with God the creator but that God used the mechanism of evolution in order to do His creating. As Dr Black said there are many different ideas on the HOW of creation and those I leave for students to research and discover which one that they feel comfortable with and align with. We discuss young earth creationism, progressive creationism and evolutionary creationism as the main big ideas, along with other smaller ones such as Intelligent Design. In the end, I leave things open-ended so students can discover for themselves.
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I have not personally had any conversations about creation and evolution. I believe that I would start by saying science helps us learn more about God and His creation. Creation is the beginning of all things and through science evolution can be talked about to see how the world sees the world coming together.
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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.