Are you ready?
Can you help your kids connect what they learn in science class with
what they hear in Sunday school? Can you answer coworkers' questions
about seeming clashes between facts and faith? Do you respond to news
about the latest discoveries with excitement—or with a knot in your
stomach?
Dual Revelation: Affirming the Harmony Between Nature and Scripture
is a new docudrama from Reasons To Believe that highlights the historic
Christian doctrine of divine revelation. With dramatic sequences to
entertain and interviews with leading Christian scholars to enlighten,
this production shows how science can be a springboard for effective
outreach as well as for spiritual growth.
Reasons to Believe
In our culture, children are trained (via media, schools, peers) to have
a fascination with dinosaurs, more than any other animals, living or not.
So, a story is told of a family who has a young child in a public school, a
child who is fascinated with dinosaurs, and evolution is being taught
uncritically in her classes, talking if birds had evolved from dinosaurs and
similar topics. The child's father is surprised by evolution being taught at
young age, but he is also challenged by an atheist co-worker about the
"impossible" compatibility between science and the Bible.
The story is funny and entertaining to follow, but also filled with good
information on the subject of evolution, science, and faith. Short
discussions are given in between the dramatization (and in the bonus
features), such as that God of the Bible is the creator of both the facts of
nature and the facts of Scripture. Our interpretation of the facts of
Scripture (theology) and our interpretation of the facts of nature (science)
can sometimes be wrong or seem to contradict with each other, but the actual
facts cannot contradict, because they come from the same Creator.
Issues of young vs. old Earth are touched upon (ex. the nature of day in the
book of Genesis, was there death before the fall, etc). The video takes an
old earth creationism view (those who hold to young earth view would likely
object to that aspect, and for those who want to learn more about that
debate, may like to consider A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation
Controversy). Finally, there is some animated violence shown in the film
(mostly in the bonus features), of dinosaurs, something that may not be most
suitable for younger children.
Excellent for anybody who has their children in schools that teach evolution
uncritically, or simply wanting to understand some of the basic issues of
how the Bible and science can fit together. You may be surprised what your
children learn at school, even at a quite young age! Please be involved with
them, be carefully informed. Or even better yet, consider private school or
home-schooling (For example, you may like to consider the book So - WHY
Do You Homeschool?).
Review by: Zoran Zaev