Big History

For students who are logging into the courses of Big History

Dr. Bob Bain, an associate professor of educational studies at the University of Michigan, covers criteria about how to assess claims – intuition, authority, logic, and evidence. Although it is counter-cultural to many of the current narratives in our society, we find that Old Earth Creationism does indeed stand up to these claims in a positive way – which is of course the purpose of this website.

An overview of what the Big History project is all about. The official website uses the nomenclature of OER for “Open Educational Resource”, which refers to teaching and learning materials that “are available online, for anyone to use, free of cost.”

This is not from Big History but it is a good overview of how our current culture approaches creation stories, especially from an academic perspective. Although the word “myth” is often used to denote a story that is untrue, this series uses only the criteria of significance and staying power to decide which myths to describe and leaves truthfulness up to the viewer. This allows these stories to be studied from other perspectives such as psychology, sociology, and literature. It is good to understand this common perspective of lumping origin stories with all mythologies so that we can better understand how many people would be surprised by our claims of the Bible’s exceptionalism.