Category Archives: Science and faith

The Heavens Declare the Glory

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Thomas Alderman

Several people who follow this blog have been complaining about the recent dearth of posts.  Mea culpa!  I repent! Here is a fascinating special case of the fine-tuning of the universe. There are 90 naturally-occurring elements in the periodic table … Continue reading →

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Joshualetter is Now Podcasting!

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Thomas Alderman

Check out Joshualetter’s Inaugural Podcast on: The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God, Right here!

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The Infinite Complexity of Cells/Is Following Jesus a “Politic”?

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Thomas Alderman

Two essential reads from this morning’s mail: Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells Is Following Jesus a “Politic?”

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Fine-Tuning for High-Tech Civilization

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Thomas Alderman

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 by Thomas Alderman

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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Genesis as Allegory

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Thomas Alderman

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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Genesis: Four Views

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Thomas Alderman

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 by Thomas Alderman

(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 →

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Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Thomas Alderman

https://evolutionnews.org/2019/12/are-the-laws-of-the-universe-inevitable/    

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John C. Lennox on the Age of the Earth

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Thomas Alderman

(Second in a series on the old-earth/young earth controversy.) John Carson Lennox is a British mathematician, a philosopher of science and a Christian apologist.  He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow in … Continue reading →

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