Advancement Thinking: A Naturalistic Myth

The growth mindset is a project in my middle school that teaches us a positive way to move forward in school. If you get a grade you're not happy with, it is seen as inspirational because lessons can be learned from it for further learning. In the former president's speech, Barack Obama had said: “Our nation has been flawless from the start, but that we have shown the capacity to change and make life better for those who follow.” This indicates adherence to a growth mindset because it shows that there is room to learn and change a learn as a nation, especially for the other people who trail behind. The value that I put on freedom, equality and privacy as an adolescent is a lot. If I didn't have these rights, I wouldn't be able to go places, feel safe in my own home, and I would be discriminated by my age or race.

There are many instances in our lives when we feel like giving up, and accepting our failures. It is the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset that stops us, or encourages us. It was just last year ago when I really understood the consequence of a fixed mindset, and the positive outcome of a growth mindset.

In L. Russ Bush’s Christian apologetic work, The Advancement: Keeping the Faith in an Evolutionary Age, he details the development and apparent fallacy associated with the modern naturalist worldview. Bush, a professor at Southeast Baptist Theological Seminary, focuses on the idea of inevitable progression within the modern worldview and provides an overview of this view’s promulgation within epistemology. Bush asserts

In contrast to the humanist’s worldview that everything happened by chance, Christians believe that from the beginning, everything that exists, including humans was the result of God. Now Christians do believe in micro-evolution, also known as adaption, where an animal can endure some changes to help itself adapt to a different condition, but will never form into a different species. There is still no scientific evidence that can prove otherwise. God made sure of this when he was creating all living things that he kept all species “according to its kind” (Genesis 1:21-25).

And yet, intelligent design theorists and Creationists look at nature and see the work of a divine designer, God, a reflection of his intentional purpose to create the universe. Where their theories are flawed with no real proof, Darwin uses inverse thinking that suggests that important things can indeed stem from unimportant things. Instead of relying on unproven mysteries to prove that God created the universe, evolutionists have scientific evidence to prove that no God was needed to create the universe. As scientific knowledge grows and more evidence of evolution is found, the story of evolution gains more strength, giving atheists more rational reasons to believe that God did not create the

Some, such as Paley, aimed to defend this idea using teleological arguments. Such arguments insist on the existence of God by “attempting to identify features of the world that constitute evidence of intelligent design and inferring God’s existence as the best explanation for these features.” Paley compares a watch to living organisms by analogizing: “Watches are complex and good at doing their job (i.e. keeping time). Therefore, it is a result of intelligent design. Living organisms are complex and good at doing their job (i.e. surviving and reproducing). Therefore, they are a result of intelligent design.” Paley believes that if a watchmaker made a watch, then an intelligent designer made other elaborate things, such as the eye or flowers. A problem with this reasoning is that analogies are comparisons, not evidence. Comparing two not identical, but similar things does not make their conclusions equivalent; if one conclusion is true for one argument, it is not guaranteed to be true for the other. In this situation, concluding that a watch has an intelligent designer does not validate the notion that living organisms do as well. In rebuttal, theists attempt to thwart this with the theory of irreducible complexity, or the belief that some traits are too complex to have been produced by evolution’s slow step-by-step process. Similar to the watch, theists believe life is too complex to have been affected by evolution, and the best explanation for living organisms is that they are a result of intelligent

The problem that i will be talking is about, what are the challenges that schools faces to success. I think we can solve this problems by getting better at mindset (Fixed and Growth) and grit and by trying to stop gangs and drugs into schools.

“The Growth Mindset” by Rona Elisa talks about the difference between people with a fixed mindset and a growth mindset and how to overcome from fixed to growth mindset. People with a fixed mindset believe that their basic traits and skills are permanent and that it is a natural talent. Therefore, they do not challenge themselves in order to avoid any failure situations because they want to prove they are smart. Whereas, people with a growth mindset put the effort in learning to improve their basic qualities and skills. So, when it comes to challenging situations people with a fixed mindset either they try to avoid it or blame others, make up excuses, and/ or criticize in order for them to save their self- worth.

Without question, "technology" has now become worldwide. Technology is the practical applications of science, operated by a man. Modern science was born out of the Christian worldview. We read in, Genesis 1:31 (New International Version) “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day”. The creation story in Genesis presents an able, determined Creator, who, after completing his work, professed it to be very good. Genesis 2:1 (New International Version) “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array”. That assures the world that the universe operates under trustworthy laws which may be discovered by the brilliant mind and used in sound applications. The positive effects of technology on mankind bring glory to God. As Christians, our worldview will help us to think Godly and live by faith.

According to the Christian worldview on the origin of life, the inception of everything that exists to include humans and animals was as a result of God, our Creator. Instead of life coming from non-living matter, as the Naturalist theory presumes, life came from life in the form of our eternally living God (Genesis 1:1). Man is not a result of an evolutionary process; man is unlike animals in

Today when we graduate high-school and decide what we would like to pursue in college most of us don't think that we might need society's “approval” or even pay mind to “what others may think”. Women are much more independent and self sufficient in today's society. One of the areas where we see progression is in the workplace where women are taking on the “non-traditional roles”. Non-traditional roles would be such that are typically considered roles/career paths meant for men traditionally through the mindsets of our society. While I was researching the topic I came across a site that defined non-traditional roles as “any occupation that generally employs far fewer women than men can be described as a non-traditional choice for women. Researchers

Numerous traditionalist Christians, who hold the Bible as the apparent expression of God, think about advancement as a detestation since they trust it downgrades man from celestial creation to irreverent creature.

Muslims do not support the theory that human beings advanced from apes, but that that the life of human beings began with the creation of Adam and Hawwa (Eve) and that God did not create them from dust and breathe life into Adam to become the first man but that he reached where he is now after transitioning through many stages.

There are many ways a growth mindset can affect an individual. Commonly growth mindsets have a more positive effect on your life. The mindset you attain, growth or fixed, is dependent on the views you adopt from a young age. There are much more pros than cons for a growth-minded person compared to a fixed minded person. One of the ways growth mindset is more beneficial than a fixed mindset is that intelligence is developed over time. A growth mindset is associated with the desire to learn and the ability to continue despite an obstacle, whereas fixed mindset is associated with the desire to appear smart and will give up easier when faced with an obstacle. A few more differences between the two are growth mindset focuses on learning from criticism and is inspired by others' success, while fixed mindset ignores useful feedback and is threatened by others' success.

Many Christians believe in the fact that there is an intelligent designer who created the earth and the species that inhabit it (Patterson, R, n.d.). There are no true accounts or eyewitnesses of the creation of origin of life (Patterson, R, n.d.). The Bible is one of the ways people account for the creation of species, resulting from an intelligent designer (Patterson, R, n.d.). For a Christian how life came to be is nothing to worry about, the bible clearly states that God called all animals, plants, and human to be in his likeness. An example of natural selection that evolutionists would use if is someone had a half eye, what is the use of a half eye? (Leone, B. 2002). How could natural selection use an eye that is nowhere near to perfect, basically a flaw (Leone, B. 2002). This would suggest of a perfect system, something that could not fault and would have no faults in it (Leone, B. 2002). If there was such a complex and perfectly designed system against evolution if would provide a huge problem (Leone, B. 2002). God gave breath to him and gave him life (Origin of Life). Some could say that Adam, since he was created from the dust of ground would say that he came from a non living organism as evolution would want someone to think. “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy” (NIV