Christians: While you grew up as a child, how did you feel about Science?

Question

How did you feel about what your school taught you about the Universe and/or Evolution? Did you question your teachers about the theories they taught?

And if you have children now, what do you think about what their school currently teaches them about the scientific world?

Answer 1

Actually, I quite liked science. I had, and still have an interest in science.
I was excited about learning about the universe and/or evolution in particular, as I have always had interest in space and prehistoric life.
I don't have children yet, but if I did, I would try and make sure that science, including about the universe and evolution, is taught in the school. I don't think I'd send my children there if it wasn't.
Oh, and I am a christian.

Answer 2

Science=nifty keen. My dad was a Jesuit-educated chemistry teacher, my grandma, another chemistry major, was one of the first women to graduate her university(St. Louis U, another Jesuit school).

Being an aspiring paleontologist in my early teens, I actually defended evolutionary theory against some of my fellow Catholics who were overinfluenced by fundamentalist polemics. Didn't really start to question evolution until two of my public high school science teachers started to use it to bash Christianity in a way obviously dishonest even to a teenager. I also learned about all the crackpot eugenicist and racialist theories that at one time were considered perfectly scientific. Never fully disowned evolutionary theory, though I am now more sympathetic towards believers who don't want their kids seduced into apostasy by bad science educators. I'm also more skeptical of people who use Darwin to explain everything, and press the theory beyond what it can bear, and I have enough philosophy now to see the strengths and weaknesses of scientific inquiry.

Also enough theology to know how to see and tentatively resolve conflicts between theology and science. Truth is one: science is explaining the book of God's creation called Nature, while theology explains the Book of God's creation called the Bible. Don't read the Bible as a scientific work, but really, really don't read the preliminary findings of science as a religious work.

Answer 3

We were taught BOTH science and religion. What exactly is it with people in this section comparing both science and spirituality anyway? Aren't some scientists devout Christians as well?

To answer your Q; my teachers were Catholics in Science and Religion. The Religion Department never went against it, so did the Science department for they did not conflict.

Look at the Pope! He knows scientific study as well and believes in it. If he did not believe in it, I guess, he wouldn't have a shirt on. =D Why? A shirt blocks out the view of our body from the general public because light reflects the image of the shirt into our eyes and not the image of what's inside it! ^_^

God Bless,

Answer 4

I went to Catholic school from grade 1-7...and they taught evolution. Even to this day I don't see how evolution is in conflict with the bible...but that's beside the point. It was an excellent school.

I excelled at stuff like math and science...even skipped a grade due to my strong academic performance (I became dumber once I got to highschool though, so there's no long-lasting brilliance to brag about, lol).

I did question absolutely everything as a kid...and I still do now...only in more abstract terms than before.

Science is wonderful, but philosophy/epistemology is the cat's meow!

-Rob

Answer 5

When I was in high school I was your typical pothead and I was high alot, along with a few others of us. It was the very early 1980's, what can I say. Anyway, I really don't remember much except they said the world was millions of years old. I believed it for a short time until I got older and was taught the truth and that creation is the only true way.

Answer 6

Even today (well practically 4 days ago) Was my 5th grade... it started out in kindergarten..we were taught religion and science..nothing wrong with that except i was better in religion than anybody else in my class to tell the truth im antichrist but i dont hate religion i just don't need it ryt now

Science...well we wouldn't be able to answer this question if it weren't for science which branches out to technology

Answer 7

i felt that science is really great! i define it as the study of God's creation...about the universe.,.,.science proves that God is really powerful,.,.but about the evolution.,.well it's just a theory TRYING to prove that man could exist alone without God.,,.and i do question my teachers.,,,,evolution if you will really study it starts from at least somewhere else,,..so it is not true,,,,but i felt that through science my faith can be strengthened more and more

Answer 8

It is one of the reasons I became a Christian!! Ever since the 4th grade I have noted severe and massive discrepancies in the theory of Evolution. And look at the Periodic Table of the Elements: perfect...numerical....ORDER! Not one space. Not one 'missing link' or blunder. That kind of order NEVER happens by accident...never has, never will. God did it. God made it all and He made you and loves you. Isn't that great?

Answer 9

i have no problems about it. My education taught me about christianity. About scientific world, it okay because science are used to answer the nature problems but christianity are used to answer the meaning of life...

Answer 10

I liked science. I had an Indian(Eastern Indian).
I asked questions.

> After several sessions with a psychologist,
> the psychologist, the science teacher
> and me all went out had root beer floats.

> ....