The Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology (ISCAST) is an Australian organisation dedicated to exploring the interface between science and the Christian faith. Its membership consists of scientists, theologians and professionals with standing in their own fields and a commitment to the Christian faith. The rapid development [...]
Continue Reading...The question of whether private gun ownership is reasonable polarises opinion, particulary in the United States. Jeff McMahan examines the arguments in conversation with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. If anything has annoyed me and turned me off North American Evangelical Christianity in the last year or so, it has [...]
Continue Reading...John Walton is Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton college and author of numerous books including The Lost World of Genesis One. He is a specialist in comparing the literature and culture of the Bible with that of the Ancient Near East. In this interview, Professor Walton discusses approaching the Bible’s creation story from an [...]
Continue Reading...The Reverend Michael Dowd is a leading American evolutionary evangelist. He is the author of the bestselling, bridge-building book, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World (Viking: 2008, Plume: 2009) which has been endorsed by 6 Nobel laureates and other science luminaries, including noted [...]
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Continue Reading...Darwin’s Pious Idea by Conor Cunningham View all my reviews Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong Author: Conor Cunningham HARDCOVER; Published: 12/3/2010 ISBN: 978-0-8028-4838-3 580 Pages According to British scholar Conor Cunningham, the debate today between religion and evolution has been hijacked by extremists: on one [...]
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Continue Reading...Finally a sensible and informed evangelical opinion on evolution – mostly characterized by a careful definition of terms and a steadfast refusal to accede limply to atheistic interpretations of evolutionary theory. WLC’s main point is this: if you are careful to define terms such as “random” and keep evolutionary biologists to the actual verifiable scientific [...]
Continue Reading...I recently wrote and article for Ethos, the blog of EA Australia (Centre for Christianity and Society) . The article is called Seeking Life on Other Worlds – And What It Means for Life on This One”. Read the full article here.
Continue Reading...FROM THE DUST: Conversations in Creation (Highway Media & The Biologos Foundation, 2012 – DVD/BRD, Runtime: 66 min) Genre: Faith/Science. The question of where we come from is a mystery man has explored throughout human history. As Charles Darwin composed his theory of natural selection, he began defining for the modern generation a suitable, [...]
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