One of the greatest dangers of a God of the gaps argument, Miller notes, is that each time science succeeds in filling one of these alleged gaps its success is misconstrued by atheistic scientists as
12/26/06 I am reading The Creationists by Ronald L. Numbers. He says that the majority in earlier years followed the old earth and variations of the ‘gap theory.’ It seems to me that the main
Tonight, one final entry, from Sewell Chan, editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times. He emails Nightly: Trump has not changed my assessment of American democracy; he has affirmed it. Our great experiment is
Sunday, November 15, 2015 – A People’s History of the United States (Zinn, Howard) By the years of the Revolutionary crisis, the 1760s, the wealthy elite that controlled the British colonies on the American mainland
Thu 11/2/06 Reading this blog, along with things like the election (how evangelicals will predictably vote), the New Perspective, Living Hope Church, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, makes me understand a bit the milieu
evangelicalism’s punitive discourse 5/3/2010 11:57:59 AM the Christianity Today interviewer’s repeated attempts to describe her coming out as part of a larger “struggle with homosexuality.” “It never occurred to me that I was in something
Posted at 1:01 am (U.S. Eastern) 4/7/2013 I appreciated the last paragraphs of the article where Rivera talks about the implications of evolution for our understanding of creation – as he says, ‘a richer understanding
9/29/08 “Dr. Dennis Bratcher argues that inerrancy as defined, for example, in the Chicago statement has “weakened the credibility of Scripture and created tremendous controversy,” “very specific theological agendas. The Bible is then read through
9/30/06 One well-worn path through these thickets has been made by those who insist that the agitators are legalists: proto-Pelagians who are trying to persuade the Galatians to seek justification by performing good moral deeds.
8/17/06 Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind – it was cited in Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers by Christopher A. Hall, who talks about Chafer’s pseudo-scientific way of exegiting the Scriptures in