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Creation (Pollard on Film)
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| Pollard on Film presents a downloadable video exploring Charles Darwin's changing belief in God based on his research into the origin of species, and poses two crucial questions: Why is it that you believe what you do? and What would it take to make you change your mind?
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Category: Download Publisher: Damaris.tv Media for you to download: Background:
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To republish: place this code in your website or blog:
<embed src="http://www.damaris.org/cmd/flash/videoplayer.swf" width="384" height="236" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" flashvars="vid=891E1A"></embed> Suggestion:
- Show the first part of the programme - then freeze frame on the
question 'A belief you hold firmly - Why do you believe it? What would change your mind?'
- Invite people to share their answers with one another.
- Invite feedback and discuss what our answers tell us about:
- Our view of truth: how do we decide what is true? Do we base this decision primarily on experiences or evidence?
- Our view of faith: how do we react to others' beliefs when they conflict with our own? Are we willing to test our beliefs, to see if they hold up to scrutiny?
- Our view of God: to what extent is the existence of God a reasonable belief? How might we justify this belief, either by experiences or evidence?
- Our view of life: how do we respond to experiences that challenge our beliefs? How do we respond to our beliefs that challenge the way we live?
- Show the rest of the programme
- Deliver ashort talk lifting off from the suggestion to look at biblical ideas of evidence, belief and searching. You could look at 1 Thessalonians 5:21 and 1 Peter 3:15-16 think about the importance of testing our beliefs and examining the evidence for ourselves, perhaps illustrating these ideas with contemporary quotes about evidence, belief and searching.
Background reading
Before using this programme you may find the following helpful:
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Find a quote to illustrate this... Choice, Doubt, Creation, Evidence, Research, Truth
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