Tag: leaving young earth creationism

Young-earthism cost her faith.

Young-earthism cost her faith.

| June 3, 2013

Editor’s note: What follows is the personal account of a young woman who lost her Christian faith after learning, in college, that the young-earth creationism view she had been raised in was based on scientific and factual untruths. All emphases were added by the editor.  The journey to finding how biblical Christianity and truth fit together is […]

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Confronting Our Fears, Part 4: Losing Face

Confronting Our Fears, Part 4: Losing Face

| June 3, 2013

Editors note: The following is the fourth part of a series by Mike Beidler.  It was originally published by the Biologos forum here.   The first part of the series is here.  The second part is here.  And, the third part is here. As we continue our tour of fears that confront evangelicals considering evolutionary […]

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Confronting Our Fears, Part 3: Losing Our Savior

Confronting Our Fears, Part 3: Losing Our Savior

| June 3, 2013

Editors note:  The following is the third part of a series written by Mike Beidler.  It was originally published by the Biologos forum and  here.   Part one of the series is here.  Part two is here. For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive […]

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Confronting Our Fears, Part 2:  Losing Biblical Authority

Confronting Our Fears, Part 2: Losing Biblical Authority

| June 3, 2013

This is the second part of a series by commander Mike Beidler.  It is reprinted from the Biologos forum with the permission of the author.  The original is found here.  Part 1 of the series is here. Confronting Our Fears, Part 2:  Losing Biblical Authority All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for […]

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Confronting Our Fears, Part 1

Confronting Our Fears, Part 1

| December 5, 2012

Mike Beidler wrote this series for publication in the Biologos forum.  We are republishing it here.  Mike previously contributed this Declaration of Evangelical Indepence from the Anti-Evolutionists on this evolving creation site.  He is also an admin of our Celebrating Creation through Natural Selection facebook discussion group and a contributor to our Celebrating Evolving Creation […]

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Evolution and Christian Faith Chapter (From “The Christian College Phenomenon”) by Dr. Richard Colling

Evolution and Christian Faith Chapter (From “The Christian College Phenomenon”) by Dr. Richard Colling

| December 5, 2012

Richard Colling is a former chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at  Olivet Nazarene University and the author of the book Random Designer: Created From Chaos, To Connect With the Creator   This chapter is reprinted from hi blog with his permission. Dr. Collings blog can be found at http://randomdesigner.com/ Evolution and Christian Faith Chapter  […]

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Four Questions – Part 2 – How Old is the Earth and Why?  Did Man and apes come from a common ancestor?

Four Questions – Part 2 – How Old is the Earth and Why? Did Man and apes come from a common ancestor?

| September 26, 2012

This is the second part of a series of articles addressing the questions of a Bible college student.  The student asked the following four questions and a series of follow-up questions of a facebook page  Theistic Evolution and a facebook group named Celebrating Creation through Natural Selection.  I compiled the answers given by many members […]

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R. Hodges Journey

R. Hodges Journey

| September 12, 2012

Hello.  This is David Evarts.  I am one of the site hosts.   I’d like to introduce to R. Hodges story.  In the Celebrating Creation by Natural Selection facebook group, we’ve had an ongoing thread in which people, if they so choose, can share their journey towards accepting the evidence that God has left that his […]

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Just a Hopeful Thought or my journey

Just a Hopeful Thought or my journey

| August 30, 2012

I grew up hearing sermons about the dangers of popular music styles and being present at record burnings. When I first started hearing artists like Steve Taylor and Petra, there were many sermons, tracts and books claiming that a Christian could not play rock music. There were a ton of ridiculous scare messages circulating, such […]

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An Evolutionary Love Story – A Rap Song

An Evolutionary Love Story – A Rap Song

| August 26, 2012

One of our artists Jawshewa El, a.k.a. Josh Laflin  shared his hip hop tune about the spiritual and intellectual reasons that Christians should stop denying evolution/ creation. 🙂 An Evolutionary Love Story “An Evolutionary Love Story” – Joshua Laflin (aka Jahshewa El) 6/16/2012 verse 1. You’ll probably hate me for this but I feel it’s […]

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