I’ve always been an inquisitive person, but for most of my life I avoided anything having to do with the biological sciences.  Not because they are uninteresting — far from it.  But for no other reason than the plain and simple fact that nothing in the biological science makes sense apart from evolution.  For anyone […]

The “Two Sciences” Problem Facing Christian Educators
Private Christian Schools have a choice in how they teach the natural sciences.  It’s not an easy choice (fore reasons we’ll discuss in a later post), but they can present students with what I’ll call “mainstream secular science” (MSS) or they can teach what I referred to in my last […]

What is Folk Science?
Evangelicals don’t normally dispute secular Scientific attempts to construct a logical framework to explain the various patterns observed in a particular set of data.  For instance, atomic theory suggests a physical model of the atom that seems plausible.  Nobody has actually seen a bunch of protons and neutrons packed inside a nucleus with electrons whirring […]

I’m taking a brief interlude from my series on Science and Christian Education to talk about Intelligent Design.  Before I became comfortable studying biology, I would read anything and everything I could get my hands on that had to do with physics.  One of my favorite things was to read ”thought” experiments designed to help one ponder the strange […]