Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Mazal Tov! Best Creative Synthesis

Mazal Tov! (Congratulations, in Hebrew) to this quarter's Best Creative Synthesis among my High1 students which comes from the group of Orville Tan, Jester Tan, Byron Tecson, Raphael Te, and Bryce Sy of H1D.

The video is a critique of an episode of Mythbusters which tried to debunk belief in the existence of God by kidnapping a critically-ill patient and trying to cure her only by praying. Quite predictably, no miracle happened and the famous group quickly declared God to be a busted myth. But were they really able to disprove God?

In this video, the group was able to apply the idea of Biblical Inerrancy in the sense that we should not only depend on the Bible, faith and God for everything but rely also on science and other avenues of knowledge which stem from our God-given capacity for creativity (kabas) and responsibility (radah) over our lives and the rest of creation as emphasized in the first Creation story. Indeed, God rarely works through fantastic miracles but always through the ordered and provident goodness of nature and giftedness of man, which he created with love.

Thus, not only does it tie up and articulate the important points from the first Creation story, it also brings in the introductory lesson on important concepts about the Bible in an ingenious application that really responds to questions people now really ask.

Great work! I hope to see more projects of similar or higher caliber in the coming quarters.



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