Two Reasons Why I Teach Evolution

Evolution is a word that brings a wide range of emotions in people. For many, fingers crammed into ears and the refusal to discuss it is an act of behavior because they believe in the Biblical account of creation. Nothing more, nothing less. Then there are those, who do believes in evolution and are well versed on the matter. They become loud and boisterous to those who have their fingers crammed in their ears refusing to listen. Name calling and finger pointing comes from both sides of the firing line. Ignorance is shown from one side while intolerance from the other. But for our school at home, I’m teaching evolution.

Evolution: There are two types of evolution we need to talk about.

MACROEVOLUTION - evolution that results in relatively large and complex changes (as in species formation)

An example of Macroevolution would be a fish changing into a monkey and then
Exposure - I’m teaching about evolution because I want my son to be familiar with the subject. Just this school year, he was introduced to a huge amount of the Big Bang Theory teaching because of his astronomy course. We’ve discussed it in the past and he was familiar with some of the aspects of it when he was studying. He was familiar with it.

At first, I was a little leery of him learning so much and even advised him to skip over it. But he mentioned he felt he needed to learn it so he would know more about it and be able to pick apart what is not scriptural in any of the teachings. I like a kid who is willing to learn so he will be more educated on a subject.

If I keep my son in a bubble where he does not hear about evolution he will not know how to respond to it when he attends college, if he chooses to go.

2. Wisdom – I do not want my son to look like an ignorant person when he tries to defend his beliefs. Microevolution is real. When he is defending what he believes, he’ll know which type he’s standing for and the type he is fighting