An ASA "Origins Questions" Website
( a big-picture overview of what is available and how to find it )
Our website offers a condensed essence of important ideas,
for a quick education on two levels:
• introductions — for a coherent overview to help you understand ideas and their relationships,
• exploration — to help you explore more deeply, we'll provide links to pages with more depth.
ASA is a Christian organization, and our perspectives — on faith, science, and their interactions — can be useful for public school teachers who want to minimize controversy (about their treatment of religion) while still providing educational information for their students, or for teachers in a private school or home school.
A teacher (in K-12 or college) who wants to use our religious perspective could:
• use the website to get a better understanding of complex issues, then decide how to use this knowledge for teaching, or
• tell students about the website and say "here is something you may (or may not) want to explore on your own," or
• find appropriate web-pages that fulfill a specific educational function, and assign these for students to read.
Two Views of the Website Structure
The structure of this website for Origins Questions can be viewed in two ways, as shown below:
• the columns show three perspectives: theological (purple), scientific (green), educational (blue).
• the rows show three questions: When we disagree? How old is the earth? Was it all-natural?
|VIEWS OF CREATION||ORIGINS EVIDENCE||ORIGINS EDUCATION|
should we do
when we disagree?
Understanding and Respect
|Theology + Science in Edu|
| 3 Questions and 3 Views
The Two Books of God
|The Two Books of God|
|1. How old is the
earth & universe?
|Age of Earth: Theology||Age of Earth: Science||Theology + Science in Edu|
|2. Was the creation
|Methods of Creation|| Design of the Universe
Evaluation of Evolutions
|Theology + Science in Edu|
Can a theory of intelligent design be scientific?
|( + philosophy of science )|
This table shows theology and science as two perspectives, but they are mutually interactive with each influencing the other. For whole-person education, the perspectives of theology and science should be combined — at least in a teacher's holistic understanding of the issues — as indicated by "Theology + Science in Edu." But in a particular educational context, a teacher may want to emphasize one perspective more than the other.
The SITEMAP shows a "three
perspectives" view (as in the columns) and
this page, in tables below, has a "three questions" view (as in the rows).
This page is an overview-without-explanations that lets you quickly SEE what's available.
Another page is like this page but larger, since it's an overview-with-explanations that
will help you UNDERSTAND what's in each area and why you may want to explore it.
below has four parts:
• What should we do when we disagree?
1. How old is the earth and universe?
2. Was the process all-natural?
• What should we do
|Understanding and Respect|
Christian Views of Creation
Similarities and Differences
ASA-Views and OverViews
Interpreting the Two Books of God
science & religion in conflict?
What are their relationships?
How should we use the books?
Is historical science reliable?
apologetics & natural theology
1. How old is the Earth and Universe?
2. Was the process of creation totally natural?
A Guide for Teachers shows you "where to look" in this website for Origins Questions.