Is Animal Suffering a Consequence of Adam’s Sin?
I cannot persuade myself,” wrote Darwin, “that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have...
Read MoreI cannot persuade myself,” wrote Darwin, “that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have...
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 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...
Read MoreWhile panspermia is dispensed in different varieties, the basic notion is that life came to earth...
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...
Read MoreAs has been well said, there is no business like bone business. Pithecanthropus erectus, Piltdown man, and Peking man are prime exemplars. First and perhaps best known among the ape-men icons is Pithecanthropus erectus. What is...
Read MoreIn The Origin of Species, Darwin speculated that bears might well evolve into whales: “I see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by Natural Selection*, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger...
Read MoreA primary evolutionary contention is that, in the course of merely millions of years, reptilian scales became more and more like feathers until, one day, the perfect feather emerged. Is this reasonable or ridiculous? First, as...
Read MoreYoung-earth creationists* often argue that the Bible is full of references to dinosaurs. Nineteenth-century English paleontologist Sir Richard Owen did not coin the word dinosaur (“terrible lizard”) until 1841, thus the King...
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