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Outline teaching notes for three 30-minute snippets on introducing science into preaching.

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Engaging with Creationist Worldviews in the Classroom and Congregation

Outline Notes for a Teaching Block on Engaging with creationist worldviews in the classroom and congregation.

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When we do science, we participate in the healing work of the creator. When we understand a little more of nature, we take a step further in the reconciliation of a broken relationship.

Tom McLeish

Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality into an irrational universe, but responding to a rationality with which the universe has always been saturated.

Mary Midgley

What we are interested in is that the world is the product of God’s creative action, whatever the manner of that action may be.

al-Ghazzali

We need to move from an artificially polarised debate around theology and science, to a creative articulation of a theology of science.

Tom McLeish

There are but two ways whereby the Spirit leadeth men into all truth; the one extraordinary, the other common; the one belonging but unto some few, the other extending itself unto all that are of God; the one, that which we call by a special divine excellency Revelation, the other Reason.

Richard Hooker

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

C.S. Lewis

(Describing the Munduruku people of Brazil): The sacred dimension, for them, does not have a wall around it. How are you going to build a place for God if God is in everything?

Fr. Joao Messias Sousa, OFM

Only art can go some way towards making accessible, towards waking into some measure of communicability, the sheer inhuman otherness of matter…

G. Steiner

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles, military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

David Berlinski

A little philosophy makes men atheists: A great deal reconciles them to religion.

Francis Bacon