Faith and Science for the Classroom: Atypical Topics is intended as a homeschool or parochial school textbook, but it could just as easily be a volume any Christian picks up to better understand the forces, both sinister and benevolent, behind modern science and our culture today.
Thank you for this! As a homeschooling momma of 5 (oldest entering high school) and a former student of a LCMS parochial school this is sorely needed. As a child I wasn't taught the apologetic side until I discovered AIG through teaching my own children. For me, this was so faith affirming. LCMS specific or geared towards curriculm are sorely lacking in the homeschool arena. I'm thrilled to see others noticing the void and working to develop materials!
What my kids encountered seemed essentially to be secular stuff along with some good instruction on the side, and some doubletalk. I appreciated the good stuff but thought we could do better.
I am not a school teacher and my kids have already been though our parochial schools (one of them CUNE BA, certified to teach in NE and MO, and working on CUNE MA). But I'm getting this book for my upcoming birthday, for me, and I'm old. I may end up sending a copy to a couple of school principals. I was not happy with our congregation's science curriculum, which nonsensically defined the word "adaptation." I am wondering if anyone else encountered that problem. When I brought it up, I was accused by the well known senior pastor of accusing the school of teaching evolution, which I never did. I did suggest that the English department should weigh on on the Science department's redefinition of "adaptation." It was used to mean any feature of an organism, absent any claim of evolution. But the word itself implies evolution. The original red flag was around fourth grade, where some homework stated "Gills are an adaptation that helps a fish breathe under water." Use of the word "adaptation" was either deliberate or very incompetent, yet they defended it. The publisher went out of their way to not say "design feature."
Thank you for this! As a homeschooling momma of 5 (oldest entering high school) and a former student of a LCMS parochial school this is sorely needed. As a child I wasn't taught the apologetic side until I discovered AIG through teaching my own children. For me, this was so faith affirming. LCMS specific or geared towards curriculm are sorely lacking in the homeschool arena. I'm thrilled to see others noticing the void and working to develop materials!
What my kids encountered seemed essentially to be secular stuff along with some good instruction on the side, and some doubletalk. I appreciated the good stuff but thought we could do better.
I am not a school teacher and my kids have already been though our parochial schools (one of them CUNE BA, certified to teach in NE and MO, and working on CUNE MA). But I'm getting this book for my upcoming birthday, for me, and I'm old. I may end up sending a copy to a couple of school principals. I was not happy with our congregation's science curriculum, which nonsensically defined the word "adaptation." I am wondering if anyone else encountered that problem. When I brought it up, I was accused by the well known senior pastor of accusing the school of teaching evolution, which I never did. I did suggest that the English department should weigh on on the Science department's redefinition of "adaptation." It was used to mean any feature of an organism, absent any claim of evolution. But the word itself implies evolution. The original red flag was around fourth grade, where some homework stated "Gills are an adaptation that helps a fish breathe under water." Use of the word "adaptation" was either deliberate or very incompetent, yet they defended it. The publisher went out of their way to not say "design feature."
As a former research chemist and current pastor/theoologian, I am looking forward to adding this title to my science/faith library.