Reader’s Guide to the Origins Debate (part 1)
A good meal has several courses. In his 1999 book How the News Makes us Dumb1, historian C. John Sommerville observes that the greatest problem with today’s news coverage is not so much that it is biased (which it is), as...
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The Gates Cracking
Offense or defense? Matthew 16:18 is an interesting verse because most Roman Catholics misunderstand the first half of the verse and many Protestants misunderstand the second half of the verse. This verse tells us, “And I say also unto thee, that...
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Synthetic Life
Unintelligent design? Is it possible to make life from scratch using just its raw materials? After all, living and non-living things are made from the same atoms and elements— they differ only in the quantities and arrangements of those atoms. A...
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The Age to Come
Light out of darkness The phrase “the age to come” (aion mello) occurs three times in the New Testament. To what age does it refer? There are only two options: the millennium or eternity. It cannot be a reference to eternity,...
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Purpose by Design
Can mindless chance think ahead? Purpose in living systems is evidence of intelligence applied. Human stem cells are important during both development and adult life. Therefore, one could argue that only intelligence can explain the purpose-driven life of the stem cell....
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Bearing Strangers
Exceptional Evidence In science, the exception is often more interesting and informative than the rule. And if these cases are examined through eyes of faith, one may also see evidence of God’s knowledge and power on display. One such exception is...
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Denial to Discovery
Atheism yields to reason It was a long journey from denial to discovery, but the journey isn’t over yet. After seventy years of following where the evidence led, prominent atheist philosopher Antony Flew announced in 2004 that he had finally “discovered...
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Do Believers Continue to Sin?
Deliver us from evil Paul is not speaking of the sins (plural) that each of us may sadly sometimes fall into, but rather he is asking whether the believer in Christ is under the dominion or rule of sin. The title of...
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Our Suffering World
The Number 1 question asked in North America today concerns God and suffering. “How could a good (or loving) God allow so much suffering in the world?” How we answer—clinically or compassionately—may have as significant an impact on the questioner...
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