Mark over at The Grove Is On Fire posted about this article on the Guardian website.
It’s a thoughtful post from a school physics teacher about religious students in his classroom struggling to reconcile science and faith – what they see as contradictory approaches to understanding the world. He concludes:
I can’t help but feel that a proper science education should equip young people to arrive at their own decisions about what to believe, and ensure that if they do conclude there is a god, it is a god who doesn’t stop them from fully appreciating the truth and beauty of scientific knowledge.
I find that I can’t help agreeing with him! It’s a great read so go take a look.
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One response to “God in the classroom”
I have to admit to being uncomfortable with an atheist teacher deciding that it's his job to provide pupils with a grander view of the universe “than is in any religious text”. The Jewish and Christian Bibles seek to tease out what is at the heart of human beings and how they should relate to God (or “god”, as this guy says). There have been abuses, which could have been avoided had medieval churchmen heeded St Augustine's warning about religion holding itself up to ridicule if it tried to dictate the scope of science; but now the pendulum has swung the other way, and radical militant atheists have decided that we have no right to practice our religion in public.
I loved my science lessons at school – but my teachers had no agenda to try to equip me with their views on how to discern belief.