Author Archives: Thomas Alderman

Fine-Tuning for High-Tech Civilization

Posted on June 6, 2020

Astronomer Hugh Ross of Reasons to Believe (reasons.org), of whom much is heard in these pages, has long emphasized that all of natural history prior to mankind was fine-tuned to prepare the cosmos not for mankind simply, but for mankind … Continue reading →

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Toward an Epistemology of Love

Posted on May 13, 2020

N. T. Wright, Loving to Know: The 2019 Erasmus Lecture (First Things Magazine, February 2020, pp. 25-34.) To transcend the divided field of knowledge – the antitheses between fact and value, objective and subjective, reason and faith, science and … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Notes

Posted on February 25, 2020

Here are the notes I took while listening to Dan Britt’s lecture. 21:00 When India collided with China, the uplift of the Himalayas resulted in greatly-increased rock weathering, which pulled 80% of the CO2 out of the atmosphere, rending the … Continue reading →

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Climate Change

Posted on February 25, 2020

Much is being said about climate change: is it real? Are we causing it? What can be done? I have recently come across three fascinating discussions of how human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide may relate to various natural cycles, … Continue reading →

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Pray for the Church in the Middle East

Posted on January 16, 2020

May God strengthen and protect our faithful brothers and sisters. Read this message from Martin Accad of the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, here.

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Genesis as Allegory

Posted on January 9, 2020

This is the fourth in a series on the old earth/young earth controversy. Paul in Galatians 4:21-31 refers to the birth of Isaac to Sarah and of Ishmael to Hagar (Genesis 16), as an allegory. Some have appealed to this … Continue reading →

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A Challenge to Intellectual Engagement

Posted on January 4, 2020

This is why I love William Lane Craig. To those who think there is no real truth, what history teaches is: that all the world was mad in the past; men always thought they were right, and that led to … Continue reading →

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Genesis: Four Views

Posted on December 28, 2019

I recently read Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (Kindle edition; J. B. Stump, ed.; Zondervan 2017, contributions by Ken Ham, Hugh Ross, Deborah Haarsma, and Stephen C. Meyer). I will be posting my ruminations about it from … Continue reading →

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“And There was Evening and There was Morning”

Posted on December 16, 2019

(Third in a series on the old-earth/young earth controversy.) I am reading Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (2017), a sort of symposium presenting an interchange among Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis for young-earth creationism (YEC), Hugh Ross of Reasons … Continue reading →