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.

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.