Posted by
Doctor Bart on Friday, June 13, 2008 10:43:34 AM
Last Saturday we had 12 graduating seniors sitting in our living room for a few hour. They ate a sandwich, drank some soda pop, and joined me in a conversation about evolution. The group had started with 6 of them two weeks earlier and had doubled in size in just two weeks.
I talked for nearly an hour, beginning with basic DNA and amino acid structure, building up to the concept of a DNA code and finishing by debunking the “birds came form lizards” theory put forth by evolutionary biologists. They stayed for the whole thing and stayed engaged.
Eric, who among the group is teased for his less than stellar academic record, summed things up pretty well at the end. Said Eric, “If I believed in evolution and heard all that you just said, I would feel like a total retard right now!”
When I was finished, they stayed and talked more. We discussed salvation theology, evangelism and how to interact with an unbelieving world. The kids, all but one graduating from a Christian high school this week, were hungry for truth. Not just hungry for truth, but for truth intelligently and confidently proclaimed. Truth that is not afraid of questions or challenges. Truth that can stand on its own two feet.
One of the boys told my son, “I am like a sponge right now, soaking it all in.!
Another wrote in my son’s yearbook, “If it wasn’t for you and your dad, I would be spiritually dead right now.”
How wonderful it is to be able to teach these young adults, and how sad it is that no one has done it before.