Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Book Report: Due Monday, Nov. 14 (report on TurnItIn.com; Art Project @ start of class)
- Devotion 1 Outline: Due Oct 16 (typed submitted to TurnItIn.com by 8am)
Journal 3-4: Study Packet, Page 13
- C. S. Lewis said Christianity is “The mother of modern science.”
- In 4 total sentences, answer questions 1 & 2:
- - 1) Explain what you think he meant by this.
- - 2) Do you agree with this idea? Why or why not?
- Lewis also claimed that, Christians should expect to find laws in nature because they believed in a divine Lawgiver.
- In 3 total sentences, answer questions 3:
- - 3) Explain what you think this means.
Christianity and Science: Study Packet, Page 2-3
“Since the world had been created by a reasonable God, [scientists] were not surprised to find a correlation between themselves as observers & the thing observed…Without this foundation, modern Western science would not have been born.” – Francis Schaeffer
- If one God gave us…- - - The world to live within
- - - Our 5 senses to observe the world
- - - Our minds to understand the world
- - … then, isn’t it reasonable & right to use our sense and mind to understand the world that he put us to live within?
- If God is a god of order and design, then…
- - Shouldn’t we be able to find order & design in what He made?
- - There have been MANY Christian scientists throughout the ages that have agreed with these ideas!
- - - “There are supernatural roots to modern science.” - Norman L. Geisler and J. Kerby Anderson
- - - At this point I showed a list of these 26 different scientists who are also Christians: Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey, Blaise Pascal, Robert Boyle, Sir Isaac Newton, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Carolus Linnaeus, William Herschel, John Herschel, Samuel F. B. Morse, Michael Faraday, Charles Babbage, James Prescotte Joule, Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Henrietta Swan Leavitte, George Washington Carver, and Wernher von Braun
- C. S. Lewis references Christianity’s key role in the development of modern science,
- - "No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power" (The Abolition of Man)
- Why should Christians engage in science? (Short Answer 1)
- - God gave us the job of ruling the world,
- - - We should know what we rule
- - God calls on us to make our world a better place,
- - - Science can help with this (if it is used rightly!)
- - The Bible shares that creation points to God,
- - - By studying creation we can better understand both what God does & who God is!
- - Are there any other reasons you can think of?
Should We Think Through Our Faith? Study Packet, Page 3
The Bible makes it clear Christians should use their minds!
- Colossians 2:8 (NIV), "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ."
- - Our philosophy should be based upon Jesus
- Isaiah 1:18 (NIV), "Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool."
- - God invites us to reason w/Him
- 1 Peter 3:15 (NIV), "But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect"
- - Christians should give answers & (logical) reasons for their hope (& belief)
- 1 Peter 1:13 (NIV), "Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming."
- - We should prepare our minds for action!
Study Packet Work Time: After this, students worked on these Study Packet Pages
- Re:View Response to Culture: Page 10
- - Answer the bottom reflection questions
- - Make sure the top is filled in
- Self-Defeating Statements: Page 9
- - Work with your table-group to complete this
- - Read through each of the statements
- - - Describe how it is self-defeating.
- - - Example for #1:
- - - - Statement: “I cannot type a word in English”
- - - - Answer: “This is typed in English”
- All done?
- - Ensure page 5 & 6 are done
- - Work on your Devotion
Unit 3 Process Grid:
- Colossians 2:8 (NIV), "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ."
- - Our philosophy should be based upon Jesus
- Isaiah 1:18 (NIV), "Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool."
- - God invites us to reason w/Him
- 1 Peter 3:15 (NIV), "But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect"
- - Christians should give answers & (logical) reasons for their hope (& belief)
- 1 Peter 1:13 (NIV), "Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming."
- - We should prepare our minds for action!
Study Packet Work Time: After this, students worked on these Study Packet Pages
- Re:View Response to Culture: Page 10
- - Answer the bottom reflection questions
- - Make sure the top is filled in
- Self-Defeating Statements: Page 9
- - Work with your table-group to complete this
- - Read through each of the statements
- - - Describe how it is self-defeating.
- - - Example for #1:
- - - - Statement: “I cannot type a word in English”
- - - - Answer: “This is typed in English”
- All done?
- - Ensure page 5 & 6 are done
- - Work on your Devotion
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