Undeception

Mike Beidler over at The Creation of an Evolutionist has a post up with a link to an overall excellent interview with he brilliant Denis Lamoureux, author of Evolutionary Creation, conducted by CanadianChristianity.com. Check it out!
On a side note (and I do think that this is just a side note), Lamoureux has spearheaded an effort [...]

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I thought it might be a good idea to follow up on the poll I set up for “Why are so many Christian scientists evolutionists?”. Obviously, no poll on such a matter could be even close to definitive, or even representative of my readership. But I thought, given the high traffic the post preceding it [...]

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(Note: edited per helpful comments from AMW)
The genetics researchers at the University of Georgia, of which I am currently a graduate student (in a different department), have recently published some important research that’s gaining some attention among the scientific community. The length of the headline makes it clear how complex the research in question was: [...]

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At the risk of inbreeding, I am compelled to submit this quote from a blogger who has twice linked to my post on why the debate over creationism matters. It states what I believe so much better than I’ve seen it done elsewhere.

This is not to say faith has nothing to do with it - [...]

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As a followup on my reason number two from Why the debate over creationism matters, wherein I state a couple sources underlying this question, I’d like to get my readers’ take on this question. Check all that apply.

Note that I refer specifically to those who are actively engaged in the disciplines of scientific research that [...]

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Recently I have been involved in a couple conversations with folks who aren’t really “informed” (I use the term loosely) creationists but have been hounded enough by creationists/biblical literalists who have drawn the battle line twixt themselves and evolutionists/biblical contextualists that they sit down firmly just on the creationists’ side of the fence — just [...]

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I have not tried to find a reason to disagree with the majority when it comes to my theological positions.  Any reader of this blog will recognize that this has nevertheless happened on occasion.  Chiefly, theistic evolution puts me at odds with most evangelicals and full preterism puts me at odds with most believers.  In [...]

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Cliff Martin continues his interesting discussion of the apparently conflicting ideas of the loving Christian God and the God who ordained the sometimes brutal processes needed for evolution. I see no more problem with God’s authorship of evolution than I see with natural evil of all other kinds, but he makes some interesting arguments about [...]

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Consider divine action in the origin of the world to be like the strokes of a cue stick in a game of billiards. Label the balls into three groups using the words “heavens,” “earth,” and “living organisms,” and let the 8-ball represent humans. The young earth creationist depicts the Creator making single shot after single [...]

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I have been musing lately about how my stance on the creation/evolution controversy would impact other areas of theology if applied consistently. The stance I’m referring to is my conviction that viewing the history of the natural universe as a string of miraculous interventions into nature is hopelessly misguided. I have argued that the atheistic [...]

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Setting: Joe returns home after work to find a package on his doorstep: it’s a present from his friend Jim in Milwaukee! How thoughtful of him! He opens it up to find a book on origami, a topic of common interest among the two and their mutual friends in the Origami Club. Overjoyed, he calls [...]

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The New York Times has published an article on the results of a genetic study that sought to show the genetic interrelationships of the peoples of Europe. This is fascinating to me as an Indo-European linguist and someone interested in the early history of Europe. Looking at the map provided in the article, [...]

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Do you believe that the theory of evolution has never been observed? That it is purely theoretical and has never been, can never be, demonstrated in the laboratory?
Well, it appears that this ICR and AIG favorite is no longer a sustainable argument:

A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the [...]

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Dr. Keith Miller’s recent essay on the Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution site entitled “Creation, Evolution and the Nature of Science” included the following statement:

In fact, as I have argued, God is unnecessary for a scientific description, but a scientific description is not a complete description of reality.

Someone responded that this appeared to be a God-of-the-gaps [...]

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I’ve been quite vocal on this blog in pointing out my disagreements with the Christian critics of science (ID advocates and other creationists). Unfortunately, these special creationists have had quite a bit of help constructing a wall between faith and science.

Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is an outspoken evangelical who also [...]

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