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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