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The Saint Martin de Porres Biology Curriculum centers around the exploration of essential questions. Essential questions, by their nature, have multiple answers. Among the questions in Biology are:
What is life?
What does it mean to be living?
What does it mean to be healthy?
As we explore these questions, we will study the human body, its growth and development in depth. In order to understand biology, we exam issues of reproductive technologies, stem cell research, HIV/AIDS, and global climate change. The biology is important, but so is the social context. Important and difficult moral, political, and policy decisions must be made about each of these issues. As a college preparatory school focused on the Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching, the context of biology is paramount.
Social Context
The way that we spend money says a lot about our values, and says a lot about how we as a society try to answer the essential questions of biology (see above). The Iraq war might serve as an example of how we explore social context questions in Biology:
We have spent approximately $456,000,000,000 in Iraq. It seems important that we ask ourselves: Does this please God? Are there other ways to spend this money that might better bring peace to our world?
$456,000,000,000 is such a huge number. I struggle to grasp what it means. Here are two websites that might help gain some perspective on this number, and what else could be done with the money . . .
How else could money be spent?
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