Creation teaching tip

Creation

Creation Stories

John Walton's work on Genesis 1 and 2 is also right up the alley of those who have not made the cognitive leap. Or you could simply point to the fact that a huge percentage of American Christians turned away from the error of reading Genesis as a science textbook in the early 20th century and have never looked back nor been troubled in their faith by all this.

Jim Fowler's Stages of Faith, where stages, as epistemic frames, are developmental, and mythic/literalism is adolescent thinking. Another take on what is likely presented in the book above.

Make them actually read the two creation accounts and show how they are distinct stories. Then have them read Psalms 74 and 89 where God has to defeat the sea monster to create the world.

psalm 90:4. Genesis is about the what. It says little about the how. It says god spoke. What language did he use? I believe it was the language of mathematics. Evolution is the how of creation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Polkinghorne

show the inconsistency that makes it impossible to follow literally. The order of creation in the first one is plants, then animals and finally Adam. The order in the second is Adam is created first, then plants, and then Eve. If we take both literally, which one do they believe? Pope John Paul II offers an excellent answer to the question on how we should interpret Genesis.:"Cosmogony and cosmology have always aroused great interest among people and religions. The Bible itself speaks to us of the origin of the Universe and its make-up, not in order to provide scientific treatise, but in order to state the correct relationships of man with Goad and with the universe. Sacred Scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by Godand in order to teach this truth it expresses itself in the terms of cosmology at the time of the writer.