Dr. Georgia Purdom of our staff is increasingly getting involved in dialoguing with scholars who don’t accept Genesis as written–both Christians and non-Christians (e.g., Michael Shermer of Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society—we’ll write again soon about his recent visit to our Creatio...

A number of professing believers regard youth-earth creationism as the least defensible option. Of those, a large number of evangelicals prefer old-earth creationism. It has the advantage, in their view, of doing greater justice to Scripture than theistic evolution, but greater justice to science th...

…for those Christians who believe that God used natural selection/evolution to do His work of creation: how do you envision the new heavens and the new earth?  Will the new creation also be subject to an evolutionary process?  What exactly is Jesus the first-fruits of? Timotheos...

This post originally began as a response to Andrew Sibley but the issues here may resonate with others wanting to reconcile science and religion, coming at it mainly from the religious side. My concern here, as an interested bystander, is that apologetics tends to be much too apologetic. Christianit...

 I will be opening the 2009 series of lectures on ‘Darwin Reconsidered’ at the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture on Tuesday, 20th January, at 5 pm. My topic is ‘Darwin’s Original Sin: The Rejection of Theology’s Claims to Knowledge’. You can find out mor...

In response to an earlier post of mine, DaveScot kindly pointed out this website’s definition of ID. The breadth of the definition invites scepticism: ID is defined as the science of design detection — how to recognize patterns arranged by an intelligent cause for a purpose . But is there really...

Recently, some friends were upset by a faith-and-science prof who was ruminating about how that awful Expelled film was ruining his tea party. Well, first, no one makes a movie about people like that prof. Filmmakers look for heroes and resisters, not pettifoggers and yes-men. I wrote back to my fri...

Chapter Two The Great Debates Over the years I have come across several ways that people interpret, what to many are, the BibleÂ’s enigmatic Genesis Creation Scriptures and generally the various credos and theories fall into four main groups. The first group consists largely of people who believe th...

Science meets belief as couple put evolution in a sacred context By Sandi DolbeeUNION-TRIBUNE RELIGION & ETHICS EDITOR February 23, 2008 Michael Dowd preaches an evolutionary theology. Some say you can tell a lot about people from the cars they drive. The Rev. Michael Dowd drives a camper van with d...

Okay... so most of you who don't live under rocks know that this country is currently debating whether or not public schools should teach evolution, intelligent design, or both.  (Oh and let's not forget the spaghetti-monster theory.)  Now for any of you who've known me for any length of time can ...