Sometimes as teachers or administrators, it seems easier to just avoid the “problem questions.”  Often “problem questions” become lightning rods for heated arguments that don’t settle anything, but leave people unsettled. Creation/evolution is such an issue. Read more.

This year, like most of my other years of teaching, started with a few days of “professional development (P.D).” Most of us in the teaching profession start our school years this way. And every year we have to decide whether or not we will change our practices based on what we are presented with.  This year I decided to change.  The P.D. this year was focused on Distinctively Christian Teaching.  I was immediately interested in the topic (which is not always the case for most teachers and professional development). Read more.

As mentioned in my previous article (February 2009 Christian School Teacher), an English language learner's first language plays an integral role when accessing prior knowledge and background information.  An international student possesses the same conceptual knowledge as any other student in areas such as science, math, and social sciences.  Since the students cannot communicate their knowledge, teachers will have to provide ways for the international student to access that prior knowledge. Read more.

Growing up in an independent church in the 1970’s, I was taught there are two views about how the universe came about- the godless evolutionary view and the correct Christian view.  The correct Christian view was scientific creationism; my church taught no other Christian view.   When looking for a job as a science teacher in 1986, no Christian school would have hired me unless I subscribed to scientific creationism, but nagging doubts about the entire issue caused to me to research the topic further. Read more.

It’s the second week of school, and my 7th graders are busy in the science lab.  One pair of students is carefully measuring exact amounts of water with a graduated cylinder before dumping them out on the tiled floor and mopping up.  Another pair is pouring maple syrup on squares of carpet and then trying to scrub them clean.  A third group is weighing a bucket of pea gravel from the playground. Read more.

“On a warm summer day just six months into the new millennium, humankind crossed a bridge into a momentous new era”. So begins the book by Francis Collins, leading geneticist and appointed head of the publicly funded Human Genome Project. As coordinator of this ten-year project, Collins oversaw work in 20 genome centers in six different countries worldwide. Read more.

There is a modern/post modern academic assumption that antiquated texts are necessarily inaccurate, and this is especially true regarding scientific knowledge.  How could early alchemists, healers and astronomers know what we know today given their limited understanding of the laws of physics and chemistry, and ridiculous lack of technological tools for the purpose discovery? This assumption has also been applied to Holy Scripture. Read more.

You may have heard about the efforts of Google and NASA in starting "Singularity University" - a place where the world’s best minds meet to study, as Chancellor Ray Kurzweil states on the organization’s website: “ … the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a broad variety of fields, including health, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. It is only these accelerating technologies that have the scale to address the major challenges of humanity …. ” Read more.

Within the body of books written to vilify evolutionists, paint creationists as hopelessly blinded by resolute adherence to outdated theology, and demonstrate that natural science and Christianity can coexist or even support one another, Michael Dowd weighs in with a different perspective that may take readers by surprise.  Dowd not only accepts the evidence for evolutionary processes as persuasive, he also states that the evidence is so overwhelming as to remove any doubt at all about the authenticity of modern evolutionary science. Read more.