I am now in my third year teaching theology at a Christian high school. In that time I’ve found that, among my students, few subjects provoke as many questions as the subject of creation/evolution: How old is the earth? Where did all the fossils come from? Did animals die before the Fall? Could God have […]
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Is Genesis a Myth? Part 2: Genesis and Science
September 2, 2016 
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Note: I originally wrote this post on another blog as part of an FAQ for my church in 2013. I am re-publishing here (with minor edits), since I will be using it in an upcoming class on science, faith, and Old Testament interpretation. Part 1 dealt with the literary relationship between Genesis and Ancient Near […]
Continue reading Is Genesis a Myth? Part 1: Genesis and Pagans
August 31, 2016 1 Comment
Note: I originally wrote this post on another blog as part of an FAQ for my church in 2013. I am re-publishing here (with minor edits), since I will be using it in an upcoming class on science, faith, and Old Testament interpretation. What’s the problem? Genesis 1-11 has sometimes been called “primeval history” because […]
Continue reading C.S. Lewis Anticipated Thomas Nagel
October 22, 2014 3 Comments
I am currently walking my 9th grade theology class through C.S. Lewis’s classic Mere Christianity. We are on chapter 4, the final note of which called to mind the thesis of the recent book Mind and Cosmos by philosopher Thomas Nagel (Oxford University Press, 2012), which I reviewed last year. Nagel takes a rather unique position; although he […]
Continue reading The Proper Place of Science in Biblical Interpretation
August 26, 2014 3 Comments
Over on his blog Ponderings of a Pilgrim Pastor, Jason Van Bemmel has written this post on the slippery slope of selectively pitting secular science over against biblical teachings. He begins by saying that Christian educators make two fundamental mistakes in preparing our teens for college: We neglect their intellect, leaving them underequipped for the apologetic task. […]
Continue reading Is There Enough Time for Humans to have Evolved from Apes?
July 17, 2014 0 Comments
In this Youtube video, Dr. Ann Gauger of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think-tank for Intelligent Design, talks about the evolutionary time frames needed to get from an ape to a human. Spoiler: there isn’t nearly enough time. Current estimates indicate that it takes about 6 million years for a single DNA mutation to become fixed within […]
Continue readingDoes Evolution Explain Religious Beliefs?
July 10, 2014 2 Comments
I just finished reading this interview at The Stone, where Gary Cutting talks with philosopher Dr. Michael Ruse about atheism, evolution, and religious belief. I must admit, I found Ruse’s comments to be surprisingly refreshing. Even though he’s a committed atheist, he exhibits none of the scorn or sarcasm of the Richard Dawkins-types (in fact, he expresses […]
Continue readingIs Christianity a Science Showstopper?
July 3, 2014 0 Comments
Over at Reasons to Believe, Dr. Fazale Rana has posted this article addressing the question of whether Christianity inhibits scientific advance. It reminds me of an episode of the recent Fox Television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, in which host Neil deGrasse Tyson opined that whenever someone appeals to a divine explanation for a natural phenomenon, it […]
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