tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post8882767984416698346..comments2024-03-24T02:20:49.965-05:00Comments on iTeach and iLearn: A Distinctively Christian Approach to Teaching Science?Dave Mulderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395580054297587342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-22981847354536965312015-02-06T15:40:45.344-06:002015-02-06T15:40:45.344-06:00I teach at a Christian school and I like much of w...I teach at a Christian school and I like much of what you said. Having said that,I am challenged by the notion that we can categorize evidence based on 'our ground rules'. What this really means is that if we don't think evidence (by evidence I mean verifiable to a very high degree of confidence) fits into our world view we interpret it to fit or discard it. That is a problem. The earth may not be precisely 4.5 - 4.6 billion years old, (though by all evidence this is the case) but it is certainly not 12,000, 24,000, or even just a billion. We can know this and should be able to say that we do know this from what we have found. And this is just one of the thousand other cross points that are necessary when teaching science honestly. (Evolutionary biology, cosmology, etc etc) We have to be able to deal with what has been found and to speak it plainly in the classroom. (perhaps this is a dream) Otherwise, we do not teach good science but rather a shade of it that suits us better. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867106943332368504.post-85142137668738318692012-10-13T11:01:03.698-05:002012-10-13T11:01:03.698-05:00I like it a lot! It gives some more concrete ways ...I like it a lot! It gives some more concrete ways as to how to put this into practice than the other classes at Dordt have shown. If this is how Dordt wants us to be teaching, I feel like we should be actually working together more as to how to make it authentic Christian teaching in each of the subjects. Too often I feel as though we say that we are going to see the students as image bearers, which is obviously the right thing, but thats as far as we go. That is too general of a way to be teaching in that manner. If we want students to be getting that authentic Christian perspective in each class we need to really make it apply to them in each of the subjects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com