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by Keith B. Miller In the Genesis account and elsewhere, Scripture declares God’s love and care for creation, and the glory and praise it returns to him. Yet, the creation that Scripture declares both good and an object of God’s care is a creation in which death and pain are integral, indeed vital, aspects. A number of . . . → Read More: “And God Saw That It Was Good”: Death and Pain in the Created Order by George L. Murphy Einstein’s theory of relativity means, among other things, that a modified version of Tycho Brahe’s earth-centered model of the planetary system is, in principle, as good as Copernicus’ sun-centered model. The question of whether the earth or the sun “really” moves is meaningless in this theory. After dealing with challenges to this claim, . . . → Read More: Does the Earth Move? by Timothy K. Helble The origin of a graphical procedure developed by a prominent Flood geologist to estimate the water depth and current speed associated with deposition of cross-bedded sandstones during a global Flood is examined. It is shown how this graphical pro- cedure was used to estimate a widely quoted depth and speed of Flood waters . . . → Read More: Sediment Transport and the Coconino Sandstone: A Reality Check on Flood Geology by Owen Gingerich Kepler is famous for his three laws of planetary motion, but he never assigned a special status to them or called them laws. More than a century and a half passed before they were singled out and ordered in a group of three. Nevertheless, he believed in an underlying, God-given rationale to the universe, . . . → Read More: Kepler and the Laws of Nature by Ronald Larson The effort to explain the “fine-tuning” of our universe by appealing to a “multiverse” of many universes from which our universe is selected for observation by our existence within it, is a double-edged sword. I argue that this line of “anthropic” reasoning implicitly depends on acknowledgment of “apparent design” in the universe, and in . . . → Read More: Design or the Multiverse? by Amos Yong This article recommends that more intentional focus on the theological character of the biblical message that involves the work of the Holy Spirit can be helpful in resisting the concordism, prevalent in some evangelical circles, that insists on harmonizing Scripture with science. Help in developing such an interpretive approach can be found, surprisingly, in . . . → Read More: Reading Scripture and Nature: Pentecostal Hermeneutics and Their Implications for the Contemporary Evangelical Theology and Science Conversation by Michael L. Peterson This article is a comprehensive study of the views of Christian author and apologist C. S. Lewis on the theory of evolution and the argument from intelligent design. It explains how he would distinguish expressly philosophical arguments for a Transcendent Mind from the current claims of the intelligent design (ID) movement to provide . . . → Read More: C. S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design  One comment - (Comments are closed)  History of science, Peterson  12-10, 62.4, History of Science, Peterson by Wayne D. Norman and Malcolm A. Jeeves Over the past several decades, a number of proposals have been advanced to explain the relationship between human brain functioning and religious experiences and behaviors. In the nineteenth century, phrenologists were also interested in these relationships. A wide variety of positions existed amongst deist and Christian phrenologists and . . . → Read More: Neurotheology: Avoiding a Reinvented Phrenology by Joseph L. Spradley The origin, size, and location of our Moon play a unique and essential role for the existence of life on Earth. Earth’s Moon is the largest moon in the solar system in relation to its host planet and appears to have formed in a unique way, compared to all other known moons, by . . . → Read More: Ten Lunar Legacies: Importance of the Moon for Life on Earth by C. John Collins The best way to account for both the biblical presentation of human life and our own experience in the world is to suppose that Adam and Eve were real persons, and the forebears of all other human beings. The biblical presentation concerns not simply the story in Genesis and the biblical passages that refer . . . → Read More: Adam and Eve as Historical People, and Why It Matters |
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