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This page of the website has presentations and articles that may be useful for background reading to help teachers discuss the relationships between science and religion.
“Should Science Educators Deal with the Science/Religion Issue?”
Professor Michael Reiss: In this article, I begin by examining the nature of science and the nature of religion before looking generally at the ways in which science and religion relate to one another. Finally, I consider some of the pedagogical issues that would need to be considered if the science/religion issue is to be addressed in the classroom.
“Should Science Educators Deal with the Science/Religion Issue?” An article by Professor Michael Reiss
Different views about Origins
One of the challenges can be knowing what to say about the implications of Darwin’s theory of evolution for those who believe in God.
Dr Denis Alexander is a biologist and Christian. In this video he explains four views about how life began and why in his view, Theistic Evolution is the most satisfactory.
The four views are -
Young Earth Creationism, Atheistic Evolution, Episodic Evolution (also called Intelligent Design) and Theistic Evolution