Results tagged “evolution”
Who Made God? (11/17/09 - 14 Comments)
Why should the Devil get all the good scientists? It sometimes seems that way, doesn't it? We hear of scientists like Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins and others who are acclaimed as being at the top of their field and almost inevitably it seems that they are atheists or otherwise committed to explaining the world in terms of Darwinian evolution. Occasionally we find a great dissenting mind, but then we discover that that person is...
The Greatest Show on Earth (10/13/09 - 26 Comments)
It has been a couple of years since Richard Dawkins' last major work, The God Delusion (my review). That book was a long-time fixture on the bestseller lists and served to establish Dawkins as the foremost spokesman for the New Atheists. Dawkins has long had two related emphases in his writing and speaking: the non-existence of God and the evidence in nature that evolution is responsible for all that exists. Where The God Delusion emphasized...
Greg Koukl on Theistic Evolution (02/06/09 - 77 Comments)
I've been reading through Gregory Koukl's new book Tactics (check back on Tuesday for a review) and came to a brief section dealing with theistic evolution. Theistic evolution is all the rage within Christian circles today and I thought it may be worth discussing the logic he uses to refute it. I'd be interested in your thoughts on it. Here's Koukl: ***** Some people suggest that God used evolution to design the world. They are...
Darwin on the Right (11/20/08 - 52 Comments)
This Sunday I'll be preaching on the topic of Creation in an evening series at my church. Our Sunday evening format allows for only short sermons and I am trying to distill the broad topic of Creation down to the most fundamental points. I have no intention of defending Creation against evolution or of refuting the various views among Christians that conflict with the position of my church's leadership (though I am sure some of...
DVD Review - "The Blue Planet" and "Planet Earth" (02/17/08 - 13 Comments)
The Blue Planet and Planet Earth are among the finest nature documentaries you could ever hope to see. Produced by the BBC and narrated by David Attenborough, the first looks to the world’s oceans and the second primarily to its land masses. The Blue Planet (first broadcast in 2001) is comprised of eight 50-minute episodes. As Attenborough explains in the opening moments, “Our planet is a blue planet: over seventy percent of it is covered...
Wrestling with Evolution (08/02/07 - 92 Comments)
Christians are accustomed to treating evolution as an account of the world's origins that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and something that a person could only believe in the absence of God or in the absence of faith. But this is not quite fair. There are now many Christians--Christians who treasure the Bible and who affirm the truths of the historic Christian faith--who do believe that the evidence for evolution is too compelling to ignore....