Parent Connection - 2.23.2020



 Turn the Binoculars Around


Objective: Students will understand that Darwinian evolution fails to account for the fossil record and will be challenged to test the evidence.

Key Scripture: John 3:19-21

Key Thought: What evidence supports your view?

Lesson Summary: Tonight’s lesson was the third in a four-part series called “What? A Conversation About Worldviews, Creation, Evolution, Darwin, Consequences, Facts, Faith, Science, Semantics, Finches, Fossils, Microscopes, and Mousetraps.” Christians are often criticized for failing to buy into the monkey to man story of evolution and refusing to come to terms with the “facts.” This week students learned that both Creationists and Evolutionists have the same facts; it’s their worldview that determines what they do with those facts. Students learned that the fossil record is complicated and is not easily explained by any theory. However, the flood offers us a glimpse of why the fossil record is what it is. Evolution has never produced the missing links that should exist if Darwin’s theory is true.

In the face of so much evidence against evolution in the fossil record, why do some still hold to evolution? It’s because of their worldview. The worldview of evolution doesn’t allow them to admit a belief in a Creator and so humans put blinders on in order to keep God out. They suggest alternate (and equally inadequate) explanations. If the evidence doesn’t support our view, the most intellectually honest thing to do is change our view, not try to change the evidence.

Are there any areas in your life where you have put blinders on to God? Sometimes what we want to do affects what we believe. Have you shut God out of any area so that you can do what you want? Talk with your student about the interplay between our beliefs and behavior. How does what we believe affect how we behave? How does how we behave affect what we believe?

Help students think through the evidence for the Flood. Evidence is not everything, but it is an important factor in our faith. The truth has nothing to fear from the evidence.

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