RE: [asa] Rubber Meeting Road -- My Kid in Public School

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  From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of David Opderbeck
  Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 2:47 PM
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Subject: [asa] Rubber Meeting Road -- My Kid in Public School

  This afternoon was one of those "rubber meeting the road" times. My
11-year-old daughter, who goes to public school, adores her science teacher.
Today, however, she came home very upset. It seems they've begun to study
evolution, and my daughter is feeling an enormous conflict with what she's
been taught in Sunday School. This is so difficult and delicate a thing to
have to start navigating. One the one hand I don't want to nip her respect
for the church and her Sunday School teachers or to bring her into conflict
with any of her Christian friends; on the other, I don't want her to be
afraid of science; and on yet another, I don't want her to think scientists
necessarily have the last word. I did my best to start explaining how there
are different ways of looking at how God created the heavens and the earth,
and that some things -- like that there is a God and that God is the
creator -- are primary while others -- like how old the earth is or what
natural processes God used to create -- can be discussed. Anyone have any
tips, resources, etc. for helping a kid this age start to navigate this
minefield?

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  David W. Opderbeck
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Maybe its time for a different Sunday School.

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