Texas Board of Education approves new language requiring science teachers to encourage students to ‘critique’ and examine evolution and creationism
March 30, 2009
Audrey Barrick, Christian Post
Video: Scientists discuss their doubts about evolution
March 26, 2009
Intelligent Design the Future (HT: LaShawn Barber)
Atheists scoff at talking snake of Genesis 1, but think aliens may have seeded Earth’s population
March 24, 2009
Were the creation ‘days’ recorded in Genesis really 24 hours long?
March 3, 2009
The Smile Test
January 30, 2009
By Ray Comfort
A little girl asked her mother, “How did the human race appear?”
The mother answered, “God made Adam and Eve; they had children; and so was all mankind made.”
Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.”
The confused girl returned to her mother and said, “Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?”
The mother answered …
“A Universe Built for Us”
November 7, 2008
Tom Gilson discusses a recent article in Discover magazine about the ‘fine-tuning’ that physicists have observed in the universe. An excerpt from the article:
“Call it a fluke, a mystery, a miracle. Or call it the biggest problem in physics. Short of invoking a benevolent creator, many physicists see only one possible explanation: Our universe may be but one of perhaps infinitely many universes in an inconceivably vast multiverse.”
“Discover is refreshingly honest about the current status of the work,” Gilson notes in his post.
Review: The Bible, Rocks and Time, by Davis A. Young and Ralph F. Stearley
October 22, 2008
Posted by Peter Enns, author of the controversial Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Old Testament. Enns writes:
“An issue that is very important to me, both apologetically and spiritually, is for Christian theology to be in honest conversation with scientific research, particularly as it affects our understanding of Genesis and origins. Young and Stearley have produced a hefty volume aimed at demonstrating that ’several purported scientific claims advanced by young-Earth creationists do not stand up to scrutiny and fail to establish a young age for the Earth.’”
See also the following exchange on creation at beliefnet:
- Ken Ham, “The Bible teaches creationism“
- Karl Gilberson, “Why I am not a creationist“
(More on the Peter Enns controversy here.)
Excerpt: Nature’s Witness: How Evolution Can Inspire Faith, by Daniel Harrell
October 3, 2008
At the emergent village blog. An excerpt from the excerpt:
Historically, religious faith, particularly Christianity, served as the loom onto which the discoveries of science were woven. It was within a Christian theological framework that scientific disclosure found its transcendent meaning. Descartes, Bacon, Galileo, Kepler and Newton, believers all, saw their work not as replacements for faith, but as extensions of it. The idea was that the best of science and the best of theology concerted to give human beings deeper insight into the workings of the universe and, subsequently, into the divine character. Scientific discovery was received with gratitude to the Almighty for the wonder of his creation. Scientists, alongside the psalmist, would proclaim, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands” (Ps 19:1 NIV).
Read the book’s full introduction.
