One thing that makes Earth Science: God’s World, Our Home (now from Classical Academic Press) stand out from its competitors in the middle-school textbook market is its treatment of Earth stewardship. Earth care is not something we do just for pragmatic or emotional reasons but because stewardship of the creation is part of God’s mandate …
Category: Science Education
Novare Science and Math — Upcoming Biology Textbook
Here's some good news for Christian science teachers, whether in a Christian school or home school setting. In the past, science educators in Christian environments had to chose between using secular textbooks and Christian textbooks. The Christian science textbooks were written mostly from a young-Earth, anti-evolution, anti-environmental perspective, and were therefore unsuitable in the minds …
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Review – Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins
Bishop, R.C., Funck, L.L., Lewis, R.J., Moshier, S.O., and Walton, J.H, 2018, Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins: Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian Perspective, Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 659 p. https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Scientific-Theories-Origins-Christianity/dp/0830852913/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547601156&sr=8-1&keywords=understanding+scientific+theories+of+origins Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins is authored by five professors from Wheaton College. Wheaton is an Evangelical institution with rigorous admissions standards, and therefore …
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Review of Earth Science textbook in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
There have been a number of positive reviews of my Earth Science textbook Earth Science: God's World, Our Home, published by Novare Science and Math. One of the most comprehensive reviews is in the journal Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (Volume 69, Number 2, June 2017, pp. 111-113). The review was written by a …
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Using Google Earth for Earth Science Education
I am creating a series of Google Earth labs to use with my middle school Earth Science textbook Earth Science: God's World, Our Home. For the most part, these labs could be used with other textbooks as well, though I do occasionally refer to figures or pages in my textbook. At this stage, I would love …
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RTB review of Earth Science textbook
Reasons to Believe (old-Earth Christian apologetics organization of Hugh Ross et al.) has a nice review of my new textbook Earth Science: God's World, Our Home. "Overall, Earth Science: God’s World, Our Home is an outstanding textbook to add to an old-earth science curriculum. Compared to a few years ago, we now have a rich …
Biologos interview
The folks at Biologos.org have interviewed me regarding Earth Science: God's World, Our Home, my new middle school textbook published by Novare Science and Math. http://biologos.org/blogs/chris-stump-equipping-educators/new-science-textbook-celebrates-ancient-age-of-earth-from-christian-perspective
The story of “Earth Science: God’s World, Our Home” – a Christian middle school textbook
My first experience teaching Earth Science was at a small Classical Christian school in Missouri for the 2001-2002 school year. The headmaster was a young-Earth creationist. She knew that I was an old-Earth Christian, but perhaps being desperate for a science teacher she went ahead and hired me as a part-time teacher for a year, …
Cover art for Earth Science textbook
Earth Science: God's World, Our Home from Novare Science and Math has a cover!
Does Genesis 1 Demand Belief in a Young Earth?
I highly recommend Novare Science and Math's most recent newsletter, which highlights the question "Does Genesis 1 Demand Belief in a Young Earth?" My upcoming middle school textbook, "Earth Science: God's World, Our Home" is being published by Novare, and will be available for the 2015-2016 school year.
Novare Earth Science — an upcoming middle school textbook by The GeoChristian
Like their secular school counterparts, many Christian schools offer a full year of Earth Science at the middle school level. These Christian schools, as well as home school parents who wish to offer a year of Earth Science, really have only two sources for curricula: secular publishers, such as Glencoe or Holt, or young Earth …
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Around the Web 10/23/2014 — Old Earth textbook, No Ham for dinner, inverted smileys
I'll break out of my semi-monastic lifestyle for a few moments to pass on some good GeoChristian kinds of links... Old-Earth Classical Christian Middle School Earth Science Textbook -- Novare Science and Math, a relatively new Christian curriculum publisher, has announced that they will publish an old-Earth middle school Earth science textbook in time for the …
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Around the web 7/4/2014 — Science curricula, ichthyosaurs, and antipodes
A promising alternative for science in Christian schools and home schools? -- Christian educators generally have had two choices when looking for secondary-level science curricula -- young-Earth creationist material or secular curriculum packages. When I was a high school science teacher, I always opted for the secular. It was much easier to integrate biblical principles …
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The Old-Earth Christian homeschooling vacuum
At times it seems like the young-Earth creationists have a virtual monopoly on science curriculum materials for the Christian homeschool market. There are popular homeschool magazines that ban advertisements from curricula---secular or Christian---that teach an old Earth or biological evolution. The same goes for homeschool conventions and curriculum fairs. At the extreme in the homeschool …
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Jesus is for geologists (and other scientists)
I've always known that Jesus is for geologists, as well as for biologists, chemists, physicists, archeologists, astronomers, and all other sorts of scientists. There are, of course, many Christians who are scientists, and many scientists who are Christians. As a graduate student in geology, I found rich fellowship with a half dozen Christian geologists-in-training, and …
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Learning science
"The world looks so different after learning science. For example, trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in the flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the sun which was bound in to convert the air into tree. [A]nd in the ash is the small remnant of the part …
Geology and the scientific method
The following item was originally posted in February 2007. I have added it to my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries (sometimes with a little editing). We often hear about "the scientific method." It would be better …
Creationism, home schooling, and falling away from the Christian faith
Warning: the following statement is anecdotal and not the result of any sort of formal research: Christian kids who are home schooled all the way from pre-school through high school are only about fifty percent likely to retain their Christian faith once they finish high school. As I said, this "statistic" is not the result …
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U-Haul trucks — geological billboards
Here's the side of our U-Haul truck from our Colorado to Missouri move last month: Like many U-Haul trucks, this one had a geological theme depicted on its side: Did you know... Strange flora, previously unknown to science, were discovered in the hidden Ketona Dolomite Glades, an area often referred to as a "botanical lost …
Science without experiments?
From Times Online: School lab health and safety rules 'could stop future scientists': It is a scientific fact, tested and proven by generations of pupils, that experiments in school laboratories win young people to the cause of science. White coats, goggles and the chance to set fire to things foster a passion for chemistry that …
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