I agree with you regarding operational procedure in science. Of course, as we both realize, there are some non-mechanistic presuppositions behind the whole scientific endeavor, but once they become part of the scientific Weltbild, then

The properties of DNA as both an agent of constancy and heritable change mean that populations are not entirely genetically stable: they can change over time, though the features of DNA that make it a

There was a certain point in my thinking about evolution as an explanation for the mechanism of God’s creation that I reached the conclusion that there was not a necessary conflict between evolution and the

Adam and Eve did not live earlier than around 8000 B.C., that is, roughly 10,000 years ago but evidence of humans is much older … The fossil record of anatomically modern humans, however, extends at

Yes, in fact I own a copy of Ramm’s book The Christian View of Science and Scripture.  That book did so much to boost my faith.  The main thing that kept me from the gospel

4/5/10 Leaving the evangelical world renders so many of the discussions and angst of websites like ‘an evangelical dialogue on evolution’ or ‘Biologos Foundation as irrelevant. comment on Evan Evol blog – Jordan said …

First, the general arguments that support evolution are clear enough and have been driven home relentlessly to the satisfaction of an overwhelming majority of trained scientists. Although I am not trained in the sciences, I

1/24/07 I watched a VHS tape last night with a debate between Phillip Johnson, University of California, Berkeley,  and an evolutionist William B. Provine, Cornell University.  It was in interesting in some ways. The church

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