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- The Dallas Willard Revolution in Christian Spirituality Part 1: Framing the Problem of How to Live
- Physical Evidence Shows No Global Flood of Noah. Does It Matter?
- Cooking with Just the Sun’s Rays: GoSun Sport-E Solar Oven Review
- 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
- Potent Portfolio Diversifier: Managed Futures Funds Went Up When Both Stocks and Bonds Went Down
- “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
- Raspberry Pi 400 Review: A $100 Desktop PC?
- 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)
- Private Equity Drove 50% Returns on University Endowment Funds; How You Can Join in This Investing Feast
- 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: Natural Theology
Modern Physics and the Human Person (Arnold Sikkema, ASA 2022)
I was not able to attend the American Scientific Affiliation 2022 meeting in person, but I signed up for access to the talks on line. Here I will summarize a talk by Arnold Sikkema, titled “Modern Physics and the Human … Continue reading
Posted in American Scientific Affliliation, Natural Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged American Scientific Affiliation, ASA, Brain, humans, indeterminism, mind, physics, Sikkema
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Fr. Gregory Pine on the Hiddenness of God
As a scientist and as a Christian, I have pondered the question of why God does not make his existence and his purposes more visually obvious to us humans. I can understand why scientists who are agnostics stay agnostics: where … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Natural Theology
Tagged God, Gregory Pine, hiddenness, hiddenness of God, kingdom
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A Logarithmic Map of the Observable Universe, From Earth to Edge
Pablo Budassi has created a logarithmic map of the entire known universe, that shows the distances and relative sizes of objects above the earth’s surface. I think you will find it a worthwhile use of your 30 seconds of attention … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Theology, Technology
Tagged clusters, galaxies, logarithmic, universe, Webb
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Richard Howe: How Do I Know That I Know?; Defining the Good [2020 NCCA Apologetics Confc, 2]
As noted in my previous post in this series, in solidarity with a friend who was a presenter there, I signed up to attend (online) the 2020 annual National Conference on Christian Apologetics (NCCA). That link gives the schedule, with … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Natural Theology, NCCA, Uncategorized
Tagged Aquinas, Epistemology, Howe, morality, NCCA, Thomism
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“Disciple Science” Videos and Podcast on Integrating Faith and Science
This is to call attention to a new organization which is making useful contributions to the faith-science dialog. “Disciple Science” is a crowd-funded nonprofit that is exploring the interface between science and faith, aiming to be faithful to both the … 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
Some Highlights of American Scientific Affiliation 2015 Meeting
A group of American scientists who were evangelical Christians founded the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) in 1941. Their interest was in the whole faith-science arena, not just in creation, and they did not specify any particular position on interpreting the … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Theology, Suffering, Sustainability
Tagged History of science, McGrath, Natural Theology, Suffering
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Exposing the Roots of Young Earth Creationism
SUMMARY The Protestant consensus since the time of the Reformation has been that the physical universe and its history are real, not illusory. As God’s creation, the physical world conveys genuine information about the Creator and can serve to inform … Continue reading
The Pope Speaks on Creation and Evolution
On October 27, Pope Francis inaugurated a bronze bust in honor of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, and gave a talk to the assembled members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. After saying some nice things about Benedict, Francis spoke … Continue reading
Letters to Creationists 