Description This is written for young people, grades 9-12, to read on their own, with others their age, as well as with parents and teachers.
Contemporary.
How are Youth shaped by their rearing, by their peer groups? How do people behave socially in groups: government, politics, churches, economics, and business? Also, evaluating ethical responsibilities for love and justice demands religious and philosophical judgments.
The knowledge and wisdom of past and present transmitted to the future in cultures is as important as what we inherit genetically.
The two great commandments are not the facts of any science.
Jesus teaches us to love God and neighbor.
Humans have huge cognitive power gained by speech and language.
Resolute behavior, especially in youth, re-shapes our minds.
How much Science of persons can psychologists have? NeuroScience has discovered remarkably plastic, flexible minds.
The human mind is the most complex thing in the known universe.
The Genesis parable affirms a land of promise, today an Earth with promise.
Biological Science does discover a wonderland Earth.
The Genesis stories are a parable that reveals the meaning of creation.
Genetics is about creating, storing, elaborating information.
The universe is "user-friendly."Scientific concepts of the origin of life are very different from the Genesis creation stories.
The mid-range scales where the most complex things are found depend on the interacting microscopic and astronomical ranges.
Physicists have found dramatic connections between astronomical and atomic scales that combine to make the Earth and its life possible.
The origin and creation of the universe displays some surprising features.
Both Science and religion open up "big questions." Scientists seek causes; believers seek meanings.
They may call them creeds.
Those who think about religion also use such frameworks.
How is the scientific method similar to and different from the way that Christians think? One tends to see what one is looking for.
Description This is written for young people, grades 9-12, to read on their own, with others their age, as well as with parents and teachers