Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers (although themselves orthodox) for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality....
Read MoreWhen the apostle Peter wrote, “We are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13), he was not describing an earth altogether different from the one we now inhabit but rather the...
Read MoreIn his letter to the Colossians, the apostle Paul called Jesus Christ the “firstborn over all creation” (1:15). But how can Christ be both the eternal Creator of all things yet himself be the firstborn? First, in referring to...
Read MoreJust as it is utterly impossible for a common caterpillar to imagine becoming a beautiful butterfly, it is impossible for saved humanity to fully comprehend what their bodies will be like in eternity. Of one thing we can be...
Read MoreIn a word—no! The more sophisticated naturalists readily admit that the chance-alone hypothesis is at best far-fetched. Thus, they posit that natural selection* or some other unintelligent nonrandom mechanism is involved in the...
Read MoreThough the geocentric/heliocentric debate is often posited as science versus Scripture, in reality it is science against science. First, three centuries before Christ, Aristarchus observed the size and distance of the sun and...
Read MoreHarvard’s Stephen Jay Gould posited that “a species does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors; rather, it appears all at once and ‘fully formed.’ ” In other words, species remain relatively unchanged...
Read MoreThe Cambrian Explosion* is biology’s version of the Big Bang. Just as cosmology’s Big Bang undid the dogma of an eternal universe, biology’s Big Bang uprooted Darwin’s Tree of Life. First, if all of geological history were...
Read MoreWhile panspermia is dispensed in different varieties, the basic notion is that life came to earth via aliens (directed) or meteorites (undirected). No less an authority than Darwinist Richard Dawkins considers the notion “an...
Read MoreUnder the banner of “theistic evolution,” a growing number of Christians maintain that God used evolution as his method for creation. This, in my estimation, is the worst of all possibilities. It is one thing to believe in...
Read MoreEvolutionary theory concerning how the first organized form of primitive life evolved hardly corresponds to reality. First, there is not the slightest evidence for an evolutionary sequence among the unimaginably varied cells...
Read MoreDid God create us as body-soul unities, or are we merely material beings living in a material world in which reason is reduced to a conditioned reflex? First, logically, we recognize the mind and the brain to be different in...
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