Creationism/Darwinism what should Catholic HS be teaching?

[lovedbyHim]

My son’s Freshman religion class teacher seems to be liberal in her teachings. What exactly does the church say in regards to evolution, Creationism and Darwinism?

I want to be sure I have the right answers, too:shrug:

 

[Orogeny]

My son’s Freshman religion class teacher seems to be liberal in her teachings. What exactly does the church say in regards to evolution, Creationism and Darwinism?

I want to be sure I have the right answers, too:shrug:

Your son’s religion teacher should teach religion, not science. God is the Creator. How he did it isn’t important in a religion class.

Peace

Tim

 

[Della]

Here are some articles on the topic I hope you will find helpful.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Your son’s religion teacher should teach religion, not science. God is the Creator. How he did it isn’t important in a religion class.

Peace

Tim

Uhmm, how do you know what the teacher was teaching or not teaching from the OP’s question?

Jim

 

[jman507]

Your son’s religion teacher should teach religion, not science. God is the Creator. How he did it isn’t important in a religion class.

Peace

Tim

Guess once again I’ll have a separate philosophy and strategy of approaching this subject. One shouldn’t compartmentalize subjects. In my opinion one needs to deal with the subjects on the periphery, where the subjects overlap. A good skill that school ought to impart in students is the ability to critically think.

Once the students are able to think abstractly enough, it’s time to bring in a faith and reason lesson. This topic is too important to just let slide over. There needs to be a lesson on what both science and religion can say and cannot say.

 

[StCsDavid]

Darwinism is not a religion, but rather a scientific theory. Though I suppose to our largely humanistic culture, Darwinism is the closest thing to religion it has…next to the upstart/up-and-coming religion called Global Warming. Anyway, I don’t see a place for it in a religion class. IMHO, it belongs with the lessor discipline of science, not the higher disciplines of philosophy and theology.

 

[dylanschrader]

A Catholic high school should be teaching what the Catholic Church teaches: that God created everything else that is out of nothing, that man has a body animated by a spiritual soul, that the body of man may have arisen over time from existing matter, and that the spiritual soul of each individual is created instantaneously by God from nothing.

You may also want to read Humani Generis.

 

[cialovesyou]

You teacher is entitled to his view. What is important is to understand that a Catholic may freely believe in evolution and not be transgressing any church teaching.

There is even sound proposals for explaining evolution via poly-genesis(more than one pair). Such a position is likewise in my view not a transgression of Humani Generis, since Communion Theology may account for “propagation”.

Each may form their own view, the point is that a Catholic can hold this position without trangressing any teaching.

 

[estesbob]

My son’s Freshman religion class teacher seems to be liberal in her teachings. What exactly does the church say in regards to evolution, Creationism and Darwinism?

I want to be sure I have the right answers, too:shrug:

My Mother taugt 8th grsde science in a Catholic School. She alsways stressed that from a Catholic Standpoint the question was not the “how” it was the “who”