After I wrote my blog, I decided to ask my friend, Eric, who goes to Gordon College, a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts, about his view on teaching science in a Christian setting. During winter break, I was talking to his girlfriend who told me how he felt weird about learning about biology and having it incorporated with Christianity.
He told me that during his class, there would be a few slides each time about Christianity. From what I can remember, he told me that it felt weird to him because he was not used to being taught biology in this manner. Before he went there, he was used to just learning about science and not having Christianity play any part in the conversations in his class. I thought this to be interested because we went to a Christian high school together. You would probably assume that by going to a Christian school meant that every subject incorporated Christianity in some fashion. However, science classes were one of the few that Christianity was not mentioned (at least from my experiences there).
The only time I can recall Christianity being incorporated is through one of my teachers making us memorizing two Bible verses and another we kept saying how fascinating it was that God created the human body how He did. By talking to Eric, it made me wonder if there is a point when discussing science should not be mixed with Christianity.
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The reason typically given is that science deals with empirical evidence and religion with faith; hence the move (on the part of defenders of the latter) to define empiricism as a kind of "faith in the methods of science."
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