Author Archives: ScottBuchanan

About ScottBuchanan

Ph D chemical engineer, interested in intersection of science with my evangelical Christian faith. This intersection includes creation(ism) and miracles. I also write on random topics of interest, such as economics, folding scooters, and composting toilets. Background: B.A. in Near Eastern Studies, a year at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a year working as a plumber and a lab technician. Then a B.S.E. and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Since then, conducted research in an industrial laboratory. Published a number of papers on heterogeneous catalysis, and an inventor on over 80 U.S. patents in diverse technical areas.

N.T. Wright: If Creation Is Through Christ, We Should Expect Something Like Evolution

Posted on April 29, 2017

N.T. Wright is a leading biblical scholar, former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, and current Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews. He holds a Doctor of Divinity from Oxford … Continue reading →

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Though the Market Is a Winner, Most Stocks Are Losers

Posted on April 9, 2017

The U.S. “stock market” is represented by various collections of stocks, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (30 stocks), the NASDAQ Composite (securities listed on the NASDAQ; weighted towards information technology), and the Standard and Poors 500 Index. The … Continue reading →

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Whatever Happened to Intelligent Design Theorist William Dembski?

Posted on March 19, 2017

Summary: Young earth creationists have knocked out of action one of the most effective advocates for Intelligent Design. This is symptomatic of the rift between these two anti-evolution movements which are both mainly composed of Bible-believing Christians. * * * … Continue reading →

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Fun Things to Fly: Powered Parachutes, Trikes, and Gyroplanes

Posted on February 10, 2017

A few months ago we joined in to buy a family member a remote-control (R/C) airplane that he liked. This Icon A5 is a fairly heavy model plane, that can fly off the water. Here is a YouTube video of … Continue reading →

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A Creationist Speaker Comes to Town

Posted on January 24, 2017

By the early 1800s European geologists (many of them devout Christians) realized that the rock layers they observed had to be far older than the 6000 years allowed by a literal interpretation of Bible chronology. For instance, as discussed here … Continue reading →

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What’s In the Bible?

Posted on November 30, 2016

Note for blog: This is something I wrote up for some friends who were interested in what is in the Bible. Just my own take on it. The Bible text is available for free in many versions (i.e. different translations from the … Continue reading →

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Get Out and See the Andromeda Galaxy

Posted on November 22, 2016

The Andromeda galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (2.4×1019 km) from Earth. It contains some trillion stars, which is about 3 times more than our Milky Way galaxy. Although it appears more than six times as wide … Continue reading →

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