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Originally posted by JohnR7
I am looking at this from the perspective of setting up a curriculum for 6 th to 8th grade level students. Of course we begin at age one to start to bring them up to that level.
Science for us is one of the many tools we use to teach our students about God. Teaching science is secondary, teaching them about God is our primary objective.
Science for the rest of the us is one of the many tools we use to teach our students about the world, regardless of whether they believe in God or not.
We do have a situation with some Phd's who have a very low level of understanding about God, some are not even functioning at a third grade level and that is a concern also. If anyone wants to have a showdown at ok corral, I will match our Bible school students up againt your Phd's in biology. For example, we could have a contest to see who could memorize the most bible verses verbatum, the Phd or the sunday school student.
We do have a situation involving apples and oranges. Does a Ph.D in Biology have to be a Bible scholar as well? Will a detailed reading of the book of Deuteronomy, for example, improve his/her understanding of DNA sequencing? Does memorizing Bible verses verbatim have anything to do with cellular mitosis? What's the concern?
My dream is to get the whole world up to at least a 6 th grade level of understanding, and maybe as much as a 8 th grade level. Beyond that, would be someone elses job.
Please allow me to help that dream along...
THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM:
Grade One: "God did it."
Grade Two: "God did that too."
Grade Three: "We'll never know how God did it."
Grade Four: "God can do anything He wants."
Grade Five: "Look at what God did."
Grade Six: "Remember that God did that."
Grade Seven: "List five things God did."
Grade Eight: "Did I mention that God did it?"
And then it becomes someone else's job.
But with 8 years of teaching that God is a part of science, I do not think an infidel is going to be able to come along and seperate God from science in the mind of our students. Once someone has been touched by God and his miracle power, there is not much an infidel can do with them to try and convince them that there is no such thing as a intellegent designer.
Ah... Could you define "infidel" for the rest of the class? Would that be someone whose beliefs differ from yours?
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