With their fundamental denial of evolutionary science, young earth creationists helped set the stage for the evangelical rejection of vaccines and mask-wearing to combat COVID-19, college biology teacher and Christian Janet Kellogg Ray said. “We are without a doubt reaping…
Solar eclipse: Cosmic coincidence or evidence of intelligent design?
A conservative think tank known for attempts to teach alternatives to evolution in public schools is capitalizing on the first total solar eclipse to sweep coast-to-coast in 99 years to advance the hypothesis that life is too complex to have…
It’s not time
It must be nice to live in a black-and-white world in which people either embrace “evolution” (more on that in a minute) or are science deniers who are committed to a view of Scripture that is quaint but utterly foolish….
A plastic feast, part 1
On a recent Sunday evening I tuned in to watch the Fox and National Geographic Channel’s presentation of Cosmos. While I am a generation too late to have been around for Carl Sagan’s original series by the same title, I…
Conference links intelligent design to ‘essential’ doctrines of Christianity
By Bob Allen Critics of a view of creation termed “intelligent design” describe a conference this weekend, co-sponsored by Houston Baptist University, as an admission that the movement’s roots lie not in science, as proponents insist, but in religion. Faith…
Charity in all things
Now that the debate billed as a kind of clash-of-the-titans has finished the real curiosity for me is found in reading the write-ups. When I first heard that Ken Ham was going to debate Bill Nye I was intrigued. I…