RE – Creationism and Science: Can they both be right?

In RE our key question is about Creationism (the belief that the Creation story in the Book of Genesis is literally true) and the Science of Evolution and Cosmology (the Big Bang). We have re-read the Creation story in the Lion Bible (read it here). We watched an episode of BBC Universe called The Sun: God Star (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09ybpb8/universe-series-1-1-the-sun-god-star) and Sir David Attenborough’s explanation of the ‘Tree of Life’.

This certainly stimulated the discussion! Here are some of the questions children came up with and which we will attempt to answer over the coming weeks.

Is God the Sun?
Is the Sun a god?
Why aren’t there any dinosaurs in Genesis?
Is God a gas?
When the rocks formed to make planets, how did they become perfectly round?
How did some dinosaurs develop feathers?
Is the world flat?
Did people just make up God as a way to explain how the world was made?
Is God space?
Is God a Black Hole? Is God Dark Matter?
How big is the universe?
Is time travel possible?
When will our Sun die?
Is God a spirit?
What actually is a spirit?
Is Satan real?
Is God real?
Do Heaven and Hell exist?
If God made Eve by taking a rib out of Adam, why don’t all people get made in this way?
Were Adam and Eve born as babies or were they created as adults?
Where is God right now?
Are we all related to Adam and Eve?
Does God know everything?
Are we controlled by God? If we are controlled by God, does anything we do actually matter?
Is the Bible fiction?
Who wrote the Bible?
What gender is God?
What gender is the devil?
Who was the first to know that God is real?
How was God made?
When did God die?
Where is Jesus in the Creation story?
When you die, do you actually have a second life?
Does God have senses?
How old is God?
Who are God’s parents?
Who came before God? (Something must have existed before God…)
Which of these questions are answerable?
Should we bother thinking about questions that can’t be answered?
Are our mistakes meant to happen?
Does everything happen for a reason?