Category Archives: Science

A COVID-19 Response: Why We Should Be Teaching Evolution

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Written by Professor Dan Fenske

It was mid-March 2020 at Martin Luther College. I’m sure that the time frame needs no elaboration. Students had just left for Spring Break, and the campus was not yet locked down. Two student workers approached me with a simple question: “Professor, if we Christians don’t accept Evolution (when referring to the Theory of Evolution, I will indicate that by capitalizing Evolution), then where did this virus come from?” Many thoughts flooded through my head, but my priority was to address the honest question held by two troubled students.

After 30 minutes of discussion with these two students, I better understood their thought process. They were (mistakenly) thinking that since Christians reject Evolution, we must also reject data or observations that are used to support Evolution. Therefore, Christians reject the concept of genetic mutations.  So, how can a novel virus emerge if there is no genetic mutation? Continue reading →

Creation Apologetics in the Science Classroom

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Written by Jenny Retzlaff

I love teaching physics! I love sharing the incredible order in God’s creation, the laws that govern the universe, and the amazing discoveries and innovations that come from the study of this gift. I absolutely love it! However, there was one topic that left me more anxious than excited: creation apologetics. Continue reading →

Unlocking the Potential of STEM in the Kindergarten Classroom

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Written by Amanda M. Lewig

As I walk around the classroom, four separate groups of six 6-year-olds are working at various, rather complex tasks. I overhear a group that has been assigned an engineering task communicating and problem solving as they realize their original design is not holding up. They work together, solve the problem, and at the end of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) class, come to me with a two-and-a-half foot tall self-supporting, paper snowman. This is a typical Friday STEM class in my kindergarten. Continue reading →

Brain Rules

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Written by Professor Mark Tacke

One of the best research-based workshops I have ever attended took place at Seattle Pacific University in July of 2010. The audience contained both educators and business people. The lunch was an amazing buffet that included Pacific Northwest salmon. The presenter was the author of Brain Rules, John Medina.

John Medina’s Brain Rules is a book that outlines and expands on 12 rules for surviving and thriving at work, home, and school. (A second edition has come out since I attended this workshop.) I am not going to write about all 12 rules, but I’m going to cherry-pick and write about those rules especially apropos for educators. Continue reading →

WELS Schools Must Teach Evolution

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by Mark Bergemann

Evolution with its billions of years is a lie that has shipwrecked the faith of many. Why must we teach it? To prepare our students for a life in today’s world. Specifically:

  1. To blunt the temptation of evolution for students.
  2. To aid students as they minister to other Christians tempted by evolution.
  3. To give students a pre-evangelism resource for leading certain people to listen to the gospel message (Bergemann, 2015).

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