When I'm writing a school report, how do I write from a Christian perspective to a teacher who is totally?

Question

teaching from an Atheistic perspective?

In my Earth Science class, my teacher is teaching things I know is against the Bible and has no basis in science. It's all speculation he is teaching, and he is teaching it as fact.

How can I give answers that are in line with my beliefs and the Bible, and not get penelized by my teachers?

Answer 1

Difficult question. One citation you might give is to go to the "Answers in Genesis" website. They may be able to provide you with some information that could help you.

Answer 2

Some of the answers already given have been absolutely insane.

You have a few things to consider, and a few options.

The first thing to consider is your teacher has a much greater understanding of the subject matter than you do.

Calling any kind of scientific theory speculation is completely ignorant as to what science is. Science is a process. It is a proven methodology for learning about the world around us. Yes, scientists can be wrong, but it is not speculation. It is description through observation, experimentation and logic.

Scientists (as well as priests and theologians) once believed the sun revolved around the earth. I can't say why priests believed that, but scientists were drawing hypotheses based on observation and logic. When scientists became better at observing the sky and developing better experiments, the scientific viewpoint changed. Curiously enough, the priests' viewpoint changed as well and I'm not sure why religious dogma changed on the issue as I've never heard of any prophet or messiah type character who came around and declared the earth revolved around the sun.

Today, regarding the origins of the earth and its geological and geographic history, the modern viewpoint is the best explanation we have based on the evidence.

The most important thing you have to take out of your science classes (even earth science) is the methodology.

If you really want to be a pain in the rear to your teacher AND learn something at the same time AND potentially get a good mark, ask your teacher to provide you with some of the evidence. Challenge the theory on its scientific merit rather than what the bible says.

This will help you learn some critical thinking skills and make you a better student in all your classes.

Do not assume you are right. Do not assume your teacher is wrong. You don't even have to assume you are wrong and your teacher is right, just ask for all the evidence.

Learn everything you can in your class. If your faith is so strong that you don't believe what your science teacher is telling you, what better reason to pay extra attention in that class to try and learn as much about what modern science says is the origins of the planet. If your religion is that important to you, the knowledge of science will only help you be better at "spreading the word" in that you would be able to speak the "language" of science in order to minister.

Answer 3

God is the creator of the earth so just write the truth, acknowledging something not proven as only a theory. Earth itself, being the incredible design it is, can't be an accident. And anything about the earth in the bible is very scientific. God is the creator so knows all about it. Even how we are formed in the womb. But God also knows about the invisible & spiritual elements in science.

So acknowledging something about the earth in a school report that is also in the bible shouldn't get you an 'F'. Write speculative teaching as speculative teaching. As a Christian, get the OK in your spiritman. Do your paper as unto the Lord. If you know the Lord gives you an 'A', it really doesn't matter if the teacher doesn't. Remember the Lord is the greatest Scientist.

Answer 4

I do not know exactly the topic you are speaking of. But, there are many things that people do not believe in. However, this doesn't mean that you cannot put forth in a paper the evidence for or against a particular theory. Let me give you evolution as an example, if you search around enough, there is evidence both for and against the theory. If you go with the idea that some Christians (not me) believe the earth is only 6000 years old. There isn't evidence for this, but there is some evidence for the other date that scientists use being grossly over exaggerated. There are other theories in science. For you to say there's absolutely no basis isn't correct. Your teacher, though you may disagree with him, is teaching from texts that have been tested.

Your faith should be bigger and sronger than what your teachers is saying. Do not feel the need to defend your faith or God. Realize that if God has even part of the power that you believe He does, then isn't he more powerful than this teaching that you say is against the Bible. Do not say that your teacher is going completely against God. Without your teacher outright saying that he doesn't believe in God, doesn't assume that he doesn't. I believe in evolution, and I also am a Christian. This may confuse you, but I'll be happy to explain it if you want to know (email me if you do).

As far as your paper, I go back to what I said before. The paper is from the approach of science, not faith. Don't try to turn it into a faith paper. Remember there is evidence both for and against any science position. For the evidence that is sound and supports what you want to say.

Answer 5

Well this is difficult, because secular people believe that there shouldn't be any of God in school. How wrong they are.
Best thing to do is ask your teacher to visit drdino.com.
He has been answering those questions for years. And by the way I have a degree in earth science and technically, evolution is a religion also.
I invite you to visit my website below if you have more questions. Become a member, tell me who you are and where you got the link. I can't figure out how to change the membership requirements.

Answer 6

Ok here we go.

just write the material on the paper that the teacher wants to see. you know what you believe. there is no reason to make a big deal out of it. you know what you believe so believe it.
and be happy. teachers are supposed to teach from a athiestic prespective. schools are not there to teach religion.
and just because something is against the bible does not mean that it is not a fact.

if you must proclaim your faith, then put a small disclaimer at the bottom of the paper that simply states
"as a Christian this goes against my religion but as a student it is what i must do to keep my grades."

Answer 7

As an Atheist Science teacher, he won't care one iota about your Christian perspective, so you can't let that be the focal point of your report. You need to refute him with scientific argument and fact. He can't penalize you for that (he would be a bad Science teacher if he did) and if he does, I would fight for my grades. And a theory is not scientific fact.

Here are some websites that may be of interest to you:

http://www.reasons.org/

http://www.godandscience.org/index.php

http://www.answersingenesis.org/

Most important, pray to God to give you wisdom and help you with the answers. Stay strong in defending the faith and don't let others on this board be a discouragement to you!

Actually, I'm surprised by some of the answers here telling you to be quiet, not to question, to be a good little student and blindly believe whatever your teacher tells you, simply because he's the teacher. And this coming from those who, in their next breath, will spout, "Christians are brainwashed." Please! Who's really being brainwashed here?

Answer 8

When I did it, I wrote what facts were known and what was just guessing. Facts point to the creation account as true. Plenty of fossils of animals but none of these missing links. No half fish/half bird.

How complex we now find life to be. DNA, RNA, the individual components of them point to a creator not accident. Evolution contends life started by accident in a mud puddle. Then why have scientists, in the best labs in the world, been unable to create simple life forms on purpose?

The purpose of your class is to teach scientific method and logic to find answers to questions we all have. Demonstrate you can do this for your answers and your teacher may not like the answers but can't say anything bad about how you got them.

Answer 9

They can't do anything about it. You have the right to your own religion and you should write it in the way that God want you to write it. If your teacher gives you a bad grade, go to the principal and tell them and get the teacher fired or something. It's high time people stop being so politically incorrect and defend God. Ok, if it's about evolution and all of that, tell him that we... this is gonna be long.
Tell him this: The modern evolution theory says that one species can evolve from another through 1. Mutations, 2. Natural Selection, and 3. Adaptation. There are also theories that says that life evolved from around volcanoes. Amino Acids would have formed protein and made DNA which evolved. Another is that an Asteroid brung life to Earth. Well, we apparently evolved from monkeys, right? Which evolved from amoebas which evolved from bacteria. Well, what did the bacteria evolve from? There is no organism that we have found that is smaller than bacteria and could evolve into bacteria. In order for bacteria to evolve, it would have to have evolved from abiotic factors (rocks, dirt, etc.). A living organism cannot be created with dirt or rocks WITHOUT there being some sort of Intelligent design behind it. What I'm saying is, in order for life to have evolved, it would have to have been created by God. And also, if life had evolved from around volcanoes and created DNA, then we would have found Amino Acids deposits everywhere around the volcanoes. And w/ the asteroid, the bacteria would have burned up in the atmosphere.
If it's about Carbon dating and all that, carbon dating is not as accurate as it seems.

Answer 10

Tell your teachers what they want to hear. Even from a Christian perspective the science of the big bang is strong.
But parrot back the answers your teacher wants to hear. It doesn't matter if you think it's right or not. It's best to learn to do this in High School because just about everybody has to do it at some point in college.
And here's a fun website for you:
www.answersincreation.org
Lots of good stuff there about Old Earth Creationism

Answer 11

I Thought about it before
& I Thought it would Be Funny
to Write it as If I Were Pro. Evolution as I Started
But Do the Report w/ the facts as you know it
& it would come out that as your doing the report & progressing
ur attitude gets more and more concliusive that creation
&/or the Biblical account of things just Happens to be the facts

Or Anotherway of looking at it is as if your really trying hard to Get the Hard Cote facts to be able to dispute the biblical &/Or Creation account so you can be prepard to squash any views contrary to human secularism But if you can't you just Can't & are forced to make the report based on facts as is

;-)