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Here is a great point made by Stephen Godfrey (Paleontologist) and Christopher Smith (a Baptist minister) in their new book Paradigms on Pilgrimage, one of a slew of new books by Christian authors supporting evolution. It addressed one of the primary objections Creationists have to evolution...

Here is a great point made by Stephen Godfrey (Paleontologist) and Christopher Smith (a Baptist minister) in their new book Paradigms on Pilgrimage, one of a slew of new books by Christian authors supporting evolution. It addressed one of the primary objections Creationists have to evolution...

Here is an interesting factoid: If you took all of the the people in the U.S. who accept evolution and put them in a big room, the majority of people in that room would be Christians. There are simply more Christian evolutionists than atheist/agnostic evolutionists. I find this interesting.

I did the numbers a while back, but I can't recall the original data and was hoping someone can help me with the numbers. IIRC, in absolute numbers, there seems to actually be more Christians who accept evolution than atheists (merely because the number of atheists is relatively small). As a...

A new study shows the following: "According to the study, 78.4% of Americans are Christians, about 5% belong to other faith traditions and 16.1% are unaffiliated with any particular religion. Secular unaffiliated Americans account for 6.3% of the population; religious unaffiliated, 5.8%...

I wrote this for Talk Origins (where it is nominated for Post of the Month), and I think it could be useful here for my fellow Christians: I believe one of the greatest dangers within Christianity comes from human pride. This is not surprising when you consider that all of sin can ultimately be...

The important thing when reading Genesis is to remember the human authors and the culture within which it was written. While timeless in its message, it is definitely time and culture specific in its literary form. That form is NOT strict historical narrative, which is a genre that was unknown...

The reason why I engage in these discussions is very simple: I want to remove the stumbling block to the Gospel message that is being created by a dogmatic presentation of Creationism. Not the belief in a young earth and creation without evolution per se, but the “either/or” teaching...

Here is a link to a very good new book entitled: Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament http://www.amazon.com/Inspiration-Incarnation-Evangelicals-Problem-Testament/dp/0801027306 Here is one quote, as cited in the comments: "Therefore, the question is...

Here are some bits and pieces from Eastern Orthodoxy (who revere the early church fathers more than anyone else, for those who tend to base their theology on such teaching) regarding evolution and science that you might be interested in: http://www.sullivan-county.com/id4/ort_creation.htm and...

There are two main thrusts to the creationist arguments, it seems. First, that evolution is not persuasive on the evidence and second, that the only reason people accept it is because it is promoted as "fact" by the atheistic scientific community. But these are both entirely belied by the...

Here is a bit from the forward to Michael Denton's book "Nature's Destiny". Creationists know Denton as the author of their revered tome "Evolution: a Theory in Crisis", which attempted to poke holes in evolution and asserted that scientists were backing away from it. In the follow-up book, he...

In ancient times, heaven was thought to be just "up there", just beyond the sky, somewhere we could get to if you could fly high enough. Or, based on some ancient Jewish thought, a series of levels up above the lower levels of our earth and sky. But still "up there". And Scripture was written...

AiG, a leading Creationist organization, seems to have a very schizophrenic view of the Intelligent Design movement (IDM). On the one hand, they gush over books by Behe and Denton, but then get skittish when it comes to what these guys actually believe. Here are some excerpts from an AiG article...

I find this interesting: We often hear that there are no transitional fossils and that the variety of hominid fossils, and their seeming progression from early ape-like forms to modern human forms, are not a problem since they are simply and demonstratably either apes or humans, not anything...

Here is an interesting statistical concept for you, using very rough numbers: Only about 15% of the US labels themselves atheist. About 50% of the US accepts evolution. Assuming that most of the non-atheists would call themselves Christian here in the US, that would mean that 35% of the...

Over at "An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution" (a great site, by the way), there is a very interesting story about Richard Colling, a biology professor at Olivet Nazarene University, who also happens to be a Christian who accepts that God used evolution as part of His creative work. He wrote a...

Over at "An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution" (a great site, by the way), there is a very interesting story about Richard Colling, a biology professor at Olivet Nazarene University, who also happens to be a Christian who accepts that God used evolution as part of His creative work. He wrote...

The problem lies in that too many Christians seem to be viewing science as “the search for truth” wherever it may lie. And that is understandable because we live in a society which has come to think that such truth does, indeed, lie within the grasp (eventually) of scientific inquiry. We have...

This is a message to my fellow Christians, regarding the relationship between science and faith. Any non-Christians can, of course, comment. The problem lies in that too many Christians seem to be viewing science as “the search for truth” wherever it may lie. And that is understandable because...