Weekend A La Carte (5/14)

  • Tim Challies
  • 05/14/11
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I woke up early this morning to take my daughter to breakfast at Denny’s—pretty much her all-time favorite daddy date. We walked outside and there, lying on the ground in the middle of the road, was a coupon for 20% off any order at Denny’s. We took it as a sign.

Publishers Win - Christian Retailing rounds up a few of the Love Wins responses that are already in the works.

Bulletin Bloopers - Thom Rainer collects bulletin bloopers and in this blog post he shares a few of his all-time favorites. Example: “The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday morning.”

Bagels and Donuts - I feel like I can only get away with posting links to this kind of thing on a Saturday. I found this one rather amusing.

Gospel Seeds in Uganda - Matt Schmucker reports on an amazing experience he had in Uganda.

The Creation-Evolution Debate - C. Michael Patton has a brief but helpful round-up of the different views of the origins of the world.

Space Pictures - National Geographic has a gallery of some new and amazing pictures from space.

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors. —Augustus Toplady

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a comment from MarieP • 05/14 @ 11:11am

Someone needs to come up with a breakfast food called the “dogel”…

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a comment from scott mckenzie • 05/14 @ 12:40pm
› visit my web site.

I take it you went for the Grand Slam with that kind of discount

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a comment from donsands • 05/14 @ 5:03pm

Nice photos, but I don’t get this:”..the current round of star births is not the first to happen in this part of space.

And the galaxy’s abundant hydrogen—the main ingredient in stars—means that star birth in the region will likely continue far into the future.”

How did the very first star “get born”?

Have a great Lord’s day! Jesus created every star, and knows them by name! Now that is mind boggling!

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a comment from DK • 05/14 @ 6:03pm

Thanks soooo much for the evolution/creation nutshell link - really helpful!

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a comment from Deb • 05/14 @ 7:05pm

Thanks for these links.I thought the creation/evolution nutshell was okay — except for two things. First, the encapsulation of Intelligent Design. He stated that IDers can fall into most of the categories including theistic evolutionist, which I believe is false. I’m not sure why he thinks specified or irreducible complexity in anyway supports evolution.

I also wish he would have delineated micro-evolution and macro-evolution. This seems to be the crux of the issue, as everyone I’ve ever met on either side of the debate accepts the elements of micro-evolution. Sometimes, we creationists can come off a bit kooky, like we’re still buying into the Roman Catholic homeostatis system where the only changes to occur in species were believed to have occured is via miraculous recreation, instead of admitting that within the body of evolutionary science, the empirical facts of microevolution do exist and are not in conflict with the Biblical account of creation. Macroevolution, on the other hand, is purely hypothetical and requires a giant leap of faith, fueled by a desire to undermine the truth of the existence of God.

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a comment from Tom Hardy • 05/15 @ 1:10am

My question is for people that don’t hold to a young Earth view. If so called “science” wasn’t part of the equation in this debate; what position would we be left with?

It appears to me that the young Earth view is the only position that actually doesn’t rely on extra-biblical information. Scripture should be the only source, to interpret Scripture, not outside sources. No matter how reliable those outside sources may seem.

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a comment from pentamom • 05/16 @ 12:15pm

“He stated that IDers can fall into most of the categories including theistic evolutionist, which I believe is false. I’m not sure why he thinks specified or irreducible complexity in anyway supports evolution. ”

Irreducible complexity does not support abiogenesis, but a theistic evolutionist could well believe that God created everything at the irreducibly complex level, and then let it roll.