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 […]

The “Primary” and “Secondary” Causes of Ordinary Providence
Even God’s ordinary providence, which manifests itself to us as the uniformity of nature, has both “ultimate” (primary) and “proximate” (secondary) causality.  These are not two competing answers to the same question, but rather two different answers to two different questions about the same event or phenomenon.  One […]

What Are the Natural Sciences?
Before we can even discuss the Natural Sciences and how they should or shouldn’t be taught in Christian schools, we must first understand what the natural sciences are and what distinguishes them from the pseudo-sciences. 
The following list is a mix both science and pseudo-science.  Why is only one traditionally taught in the science […]

Conflict Inevitable but not Necessary

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One thing that Christian Educators must realize is that until the consummation of all things, there WILL be conflicts between science and theology.  This is not to say that God, being the author of all knowledge, contradicts Himself.  We can assume that Special Revelation and General Revelation are always in perfect agreement […]