Archive for July, 2012

Review of Young and Stearley, The Bible, Rocks and Time

Review of Young and Stearley, The Bible, Rocks and Time

| July 10, 2012

Review of  “The Bible, Rocks and Time” (reviewed by Dr. James F. McGrath, Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University, Indianapolis.) Saying that  by Davis A. Young and Ralph F. Stearley (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2008) is probably the best book of its kind would not be saying enough, […]

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Evolution Means – An Inspirational Poster

Evolution Means – An Inspirational Poster

| July 9, 2012

The physicist Karl Giberson, in a Huffington post article, recently pointed out that when we share about evolution and the other glories of Gods creation, we often do so in a clinical, precise, scientific way. That’s the nature of science writing. We forget to share how evolutionary creation affirms the persons worth to God, to […]

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Science and Evidence: Falsifiability and Prediction

Science and Evidence: Falsifiability and Prediction

| July 8, 2012

How is it that many people insist that there is no evidence for the theory of evolution or the Big Bang theory, yet  scientists will insist that there is massive evidence for these theories?    The controversy comes from a misunderstanding of what constitutes  scientific evidence.    Laymen tend to think that unless we can […]

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Science in Brief:  The Higgs Boson

Science in Brief: The Higgs Boson

| July 7, 2012

Did you ever find yourself at a party and dying to explain the Higgs Boson? Well this explanation should suffice for scientists and non-scientists who want to dazzle their friends with their erudition. We know even from our own experience that once you get an object moving, it would continue moving unless something slows it […]

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The Sectarian Origins of Young Earth Creationsim

The Sectarian Origins of Young Earth Creationsim

| July 4, 2012

Joshua M. Moritz, PhD, is Lecturer of Philosophical Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, and Managing Editor of the journal Theology and Science. He has graciously granted us permission to share this with you.  Lecture 06: The Sectarian Origins […]

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The Higgs is Bigg!

The Higgs is Bigg!

| July 4, 2012

The Higgs is Bigg! I think the problem is too abstract for people to realize that the work that led up to detecting the Higgs and the importance of its detection is bigger than landing someone on the moon. It probably has something to do with the fact that the CERN LHC project is not […]

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Evolution, Shakespeare, and Weasels

Evolution, Shakespeare, and Weasels

| July 2, 2012

How can anything creative happen through a ranodm process operating over a long period of time? This is a question frequently asked by those who are learning about the theory of evolution. And indeed, when you throw a pair of dice over and over again, you find that different numbers just come up randomly all […]

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