On the assignment sheet, students were asked to answer the overall research question about how the world began. Students were also asked to ponder the following questions:

• How did the world start?
• Who started it?
• When did evil start or did it always exist?
• Are people inherently good or evil or neither?
• What is morality?
• What is religion?
• What is Christianity?
• What does it mean to be a Christian?
• Is God real?
• Is Satan real?

“I don’t care what anyone says,” Gray said. “If you start out with, ‘How was the world started and then who started it,’ that implies it wasn’t science [and] that it was an entity, a person, a being.”