Thursday, March 1, 2012

A Great Resource for Christian Kids in Public Schools

While at an Answers in Genesis conference last week, I stumbled across a set of books that looked fascinating.  They were titled: Evolution Exposed and one covered the topic of earth science and the other covered biology. I didn't give the books a super close look, but simply purchased them based on their titles.  When I got home and started to look through them I noticed that, while they have some great information, they are really geared more toward the Christian child in the public or private school setting.  The author of this series has taken the three most-used textbooks from the schools, and systematically charted evolutionary ideas and matched them with articles from the Answers in Genesis website that discuss each idea from a Biblical worldview.  Each chapter includes a detailed chart of the ideas, the pages numbers that they are found in their respective texts, and links to a corresponding web article from AiG.  What a great idea!

The book begins by discussing why it is important to recognize bad reasoning.  This is particularly important as our Christian culture has assimilated many of these teachings into our thought processes and accepted them as fact without taking the time to get all of the facts, or really think through the matter logically.  It then goes on to explain how the Christian can lovingly confront those ideas by asking pointed questions with respect and humility, both important virtues for evangelism.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/PublicStore/product/Evolution-Exposed-POWER-PACK-The,5714,263.aspx

Above is a link to the "power pack" that contains both of the books.   I highly recommend these resources!