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- Physical Evidence Shows No Global Flood of Noah. Does It Matter?
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- Douglas Gresham: Stepson of C. S. Lewis, and Much More
- Canadian Wildfires Will Likely Burn All Summer; Ways to Filter the Air in Your Home
- The Museum of the Bible (Washington, DC) on Creation and Evolution
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- “Five Talents” Microfinance NGO Helps the Poorest of the Poor to Start Their Own Businesses
- Modern Physics and the Human Person (Arnold Sikkema, ASA 2022)
- The “Wave Razor” May Explain Why Some Unconformities in Rock Layers Are So Flat
- Treatments for Rusted Metal: Rust Bullet, Cosmoline RP-342, and Others
- Fr. Gregory Pine on the Hiddenness of God
- Bill Johnson’s Talk at Bethel Church After His Wife Beni Died
- A Logarithmic Map of the Observable Universe, From Earth to Edge
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- New Finds from Tanis Fossil Site Shed Light on the Demise of Dinosaurs and Vindicate “Amateur” Fossil-Hunter
- Three Different Polls Show Recent Rapid Decline of Religion in America
- Faith Meets Agricultural Science: “Pfumvudza” Planting Technique Brings Hope to Zimbabwe
- Trends in Young Earth Creationism, from Prof. Joel Duff
- How to Earn 7% in U.S. I-Series Savings Bond or 9% Stable Interest in a Crypto Account
- Parker Sun Probe: Fastest Man-Made Object Brushes the Sun
- Four Biological Examples Best Explained by Common Descent (from BioLogos)
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- Humor in Christian Apologetics: Mia Langford [2020 NCCA, 10]
- Christian Apologetics Insights from David Geisler, Ray Ciervo, and Prem Isaac [2020 NCCA, 9]
- Another Intelligent Design Straw Man Attempt to Demonstrate a “Waiting Time Problem” for Evolution
- Suggestions for Comfortable and Effective Face Masks, e.g. Korean KF94’s
- Is the Old Testament Trinitarian? by Jonathan McLatchie [2020 NCCA Confc. 8]
- How the New Testament Sees Christ in the Old Testament: Talk by Mel Winstead [2020 NCCA Confc. 7]
- Jesus in Old Testament Prophecy — Class Handout
- Making Essene Bread: Uncooked, Sundried Sprouted Wheat
- Confirmatory Coincidences Among the Gospels – Timothy McGrew [2020 NCCA Confc, 6]
- Condo Building Collapse in Miami: Causes and Consequences
- Tracking Young Earth Creationist Organizations by Joel Duff at Naturalis Historia
- Scientists’ Responses to Stephen Meyer’s “Return of the God Hypothesis”
- Biologos and Peaceful Science Forums Address Timely Evolution/Creation Issues
- John Sanford Disputes Evolution [2020 NCCA Apologetics Confc, 5]
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Category Archives: Intelligent Design
American Scientific Affiliation 2019 Meeting, “Exploring Creation”
The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) is an organization of evangelical Christians who are degreed scientists and who gather to discuss how their science and their faith interact. I have posted summaries of annual meetings for some past years: 2015, 2016 … Continue reading
Science and Faith at the American Scientific Affiliation 2018 Meeting
The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) is an organization of evangelical Christians who are degreed scientists and who gather to discuss how their science and their faith interact. The 2018 annual meeting of the ASA was held last week at Gordon … Continue reading
Jesus on Flourishing in This Physical World: No Signs, No Justice, No Fear
Contents: Classic Bible Passages on Natural Theology The Regularity of Nature No Sign Except the Sign of Jonah The Sign of the Resurrection in the Ministry of Paul No Justice in This Life: The Same Things Happen to Good … Continue reading
Evolution and Faith: My Story, Part 2
In Part 1, I described the trajectory of my thinking over the past four decades as an evangelical Christian on the scientific aspects of creation. Here I describe the personal and theological aspects of this journey. Hard Questions and Cold … Continue reading
The Cambrian Explosion and Darwin’s Doubt
The “Cambrian explosion” refers to the initial appearance of the fossils of many major animal groups (“phyla”) within a period of about 10 million years, about half a billion years ago in the Cambrian period. If you consider only some … Continue reading
Do ENCODE Human Genome Results Support Intelligent Design?
I looked into this question, and wrote up an essay with my findings. This essay got longer and longer, as I added a tutorial (for readers who are not biologists) on the human genome, and included some global musings on … Continue reading
Was Darwin An Atheist?
Richard Dawkins has celebrated Charles Darwin as the man who “made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” Dawkins goes further, claiming Darwin to be a full-fledged fellow atheist for all intents. Some conservative Christians, who blame Darwin for … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligent Design, Natural Selection
Tagged Atheist, Darwin, evolution, Intelligent Design
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Gorilla, Orangutan, Chimp and Human Genomes: Population Genetics and Intelligent Design
Living things are largely made of proteins. A simplified definition of a gene is that it is a segment of DNA that codes for the synthesis of one or more particular proteins. A more complete definition is given by Wikipedia: A … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligent Design, Mutations
Tagged genome, gorilla, lineage sorting, orangutan
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Adam, the Fall, and Evolution: Everybody Stay Calm
Editorial Attacks on Theistic Evolution Recent genetic studies show beyond all reasonable doubt that humans evolved from other primates. These discoveries are forcing evangelical Christians who value intellectual integrity to re-evaluate their traditional support for a sudden creation of Adam … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Interpretation, Intelligent Design, Macro-Evolution, Uncategorized
Tagged Adam, Bible Interpretation, evolution, Original Sin, science
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How Science Can Inspire and Inform Worship: NASA’s Jennifer Wiseman
Jennifer Wiseman is an accomplished scientist and author. She has degrees from MIT and Harvard, and currently serves as Chief of NASA’s ExoPlanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory. She is also a strong Christian and an all-around nice person, as you … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Interpretation, Intelligent Design, Uncategorized
Tagged ASA, Jennifer Wiseman, science, worship
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Letters to Creationists 