Category: Science

Last week we had a great discussion about John Walton's ideas regarding Genesis at The Forge. John Walton's approach to Genesis 1-2 is to read it in the light of the ancient context in which it was written, not in the light...

As my dad pointed out, the acronym for the Bellingham Lectures in Philosophy and Religion, BLPR, might be misread as "blooper." However, it is no such thing.  This is a high quality, highly relevant university lecture series in...

The description of this book resonates with my own sentiment that neuroscience has been seriously overplayed in many areas. Another one for the list! "In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims...

I wish I'd seen this article, A Mission to Convert, a few years ago when Dawkins' The God Delusion was a hotter topic. Still, it's a great article for those interested in the "fundamentalist atheism" he has helped to spawn....

Warning: this may contain spoilers. However, I suspect that even if there are some very minor spoils, this post will actually help you enjoy the film better. I first watched this film on plane in 2007 while returning from a...

A new book by Alister McGrath on Darwinism is due out in 2011. Here is the description from Blackwell, There remains a widespread perception that Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection marked the demise of any viable...

I was thinking about watching a new film called The Experiment. The premise is a psychological experiment in which a group of male volunteers are placed in a mock prison. Half become prisoners and half become guards. This then...

You hear the story pop up from time to time: Darwin converted to Christianity just before he died!  The theme of “death bed conversions” of famous people is a subset of Christian urban myths, or evangellymyths, as I like to...

I just caught up to this fascinating story from 2005. German anthropology profesor Reiner Protsch von Zieten was discovered to have spent a large portion of this academic career inventing discoveries and randomly dating...

[caption id="attachment_1723" align="alignright" width="120" caption="William Provine"][/caption] Dallas Willard quotes biologist William B. Provine of Cornell University: Let me summarize my views on what modern evolutionary...