Our World revision

Super-excellent resources, a wealth of matierial here. My only 'improver statement' would be the chart on the first ppt - slide 13, 'Theories on the creation of the world.' you give 'scientific, creationist and intelligent design. I would give 'Fundamentalist Christian' instead of Creationist, similarly explaining that they tend to interpret the story of Genesis in a literal way - and then add another strand labelled 'Liberal Christian' which refers to those Christians who understand that there are many truths to be found in science, but these do not conflict with the Genesis story as it does not belong to the genre of science but is from the genre of Oral Tradition when ancient peoples sought answers to questions through dreams and visions and expressed them in the symbolic language of story, poetry and song. As you mention in other slides, there are many important truths to be found in the ancient stories recorded in Genesis. Liberal Christians embrace these and find no conflict with scientific findings which show how life has evolved. They might say that evolution is the way that God has worked to bring life into existence, just as the Big Bang seems to be the way that He brought the material universe into being. The important thing is to recognise that there are many ways of being Christian and Christianity is not in conflict with science. This is a great topic to reinforce an understanding of Liberal and Fundamentalist differences so I would add a couple of slides which explore these.