Creation
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Southern California Meeting, January 26-27, on Natural Evil
Read more: Southern California Meeting, January 26-27, on Natural EvilWe will be meeting on the campus of Biola University, January 26-27, on the topic of “Natural Evil.” Many evolutionists point to “bad design” in nature, or predators, etc., as evidence of evolution by undirected processes. Many Christians also accept that these things are “bad,” and argue that they are a result of the Curse…
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New website on interpreting Genesis
Read more: New website on interpreting GenesisFull member David Bossard informs us that he has recently done a major rewrite/revision of his website http://www.creationnarrative.org. This is a detailed look at the texts from a “concordantist” perspective (the viewpoint that the texts really do give us chronology consistent with modern science.) David invites comments and/or corrections. This post has an open comments section…
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Review: Progressive Creation becomes aggressive
Read more: Review: Progressive Creation becomes aggressiveMore than Myth? Seeking the Full Truth about Genesis, Creation, and Evolution, P.D. Brown and R. Stackpole, editors (Chartwell Press, 2014). Bruce Gordon, “Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: A Biblical and Scientific Critique of Young-Earth Creationism,” Science, Religion, and Culture 1, 144 (2014).
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Schroeder’s Theory — The “Days of Old”
Read more: Schroeder’s Theory — The “Days of Old”Here is my attempt at visualizing what Gerald Schroeder was talking about in “The Science of God” (1998). He says that because of relativity, the billions of years since creation can also be the same amount of time in six literal days. Here is his correlation of Creation Days and Geologic Time Scale side by…
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Thomas Jefferson’s Creator
Read more: Thomas Jefferson’s CreatorJon Meacham’s “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power” (Random House, 2012) is a biography well worth reading. While I would have liked to have read more about Jefferson’s astonishing knowledge and practice of meteorology, archaeology, astronomy, paleontology, architecture, surveying, botany, language and the natural sciences in general, Meacham manages to include intriguing tidbits of Jefferson’s…
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New article on dating Adam
Read more: New article on dating AdamAll kinds of Christian authors have been writing books and articles on dating Adam and Eve, including Ross and Rana, Who Was Adam? and Jack Collins, Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? In this article I chime in, analyzing all the various options that I have heard proposed and assessing their pros and cons.