If there is a God….a higher power, a supreme being, who is behind all this, I feel we should just stop talking for a minute and…well…just stop talking for a minute.
Bible & Science
meteorologists: those godless liberal heathen deniers of truth
As foolish as we may look in resisting the so-called “scientific consensus,” we are bound by Scripture.
God did not create the cosmos with “apparent age”—3 reasons
The overarching problem is the assertion that Genesis is prepared to tell us how old the earth is.
God likes stories, and science backs it up
In The Bible Tells Me So, I have a section called “Stories Work,” which is my conclusion to chapter 3, “God Likes Stories.” My point there is that the writers of the biblical narratives were storytellers. They recalled the past “often the very distant past, not ‘objectively,’ but purposefully. They had skin in the game. These were their stories. […]
3 things to keep in mind if you don’t want to screw up the Noah story
There’s been quite a lot of kerfuffle online this summer in the wild and wacky, never boring, but yet always so, world of reading the Bible far, far, too literally. I should put in my two cents—be ready for a shock—that I don’t think much of the recent construction of a life-size but totally non-functional replication […]
3 reasons why God did not create the earth and cosmos with “apparent age”
“Apparent age” means that God created the cosmos to look billions of years old when in fact it is only a few 1000 years old. This is seen by some* as a solution to why the earth looks so old when the Bible says it is so young. “Apparent age” has the convenient benefit of allowing one to accept the observations of […]
Huge Numbers, The Age of the Earth, and Maybe It’s Not About Me
What got me thinking about all this is the discovery in Egypt of the oldest known depiction of a pharaoh, dating to about 3000 BC. Which is quite old, I assure you. 5000 years ago is a long time—3000 years before Christ. I turned 55 in January, which is a shame because it makes calculating all this more […]
What I think about NOMA (not the ex-Red Sox shortstop but the evolution thing)
So, I’ve been thinking of NOMA this past week. Probably because the Yankees have been hitting like a high school team (until last night, let’s hope it lasts) and I need to take my mind somewhere else. And so my mind wound up at NOMA. NOMA is part of the lingo of the science/religion discussion […]
has science vindicated those nasty Samaritans? looks like it.
I knew I should have paid more attention to biology class in high school. “You never know,” mom said. “One day you might grow up to be a biblical scholar, and someone might publish a scientific paper that intersects with your own field and you might want to be able to understand it.” How right […]
2 more reasons why Eric Metaxas’s “science proves God” approach falters
On Christmas day, Eric Metaxas published an op-ed piece in the WSJ “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God.” The title concerned me a bit. Metaxas is a bright guy, and I was hoping the piece wouldn’t add to the mountain of poorly conceived Christian apologetics about proving God’s existence. It seems, though, this Metaxas has fallen into that […]