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Tom Ingebritsen

The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, Pt. 3

February 19, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 5 Comments

This is the last part of a series of three posts dealing with the mechanism of creation from the point of view of science (Part 1, Part 2). These will be followed by a series of posts addressing questions and concerns that Christians might have about this scientific view. In this post we are going to continue looking at the theory of evolution which is the dominant scientific view of the mechanism of creation. Previously I pointed out that evolution is a loaded word that has multiple meanings for people and that part … [Read more...] about The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, Pt. 3

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: artificial selection, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, evolution, Ian Barbour, natural selection, The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, theory, time

The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, Pt. 2

February 12, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 11 Comments

This is the second part of a series of three posts dealing with the mechanism of creation from the point of view of science. These will be followed by a series of posts addressing questions and concerns that Christians might have about this scientific view. In my previous post, I pointed out that evolution is a loaded word that has multiple meanings for people and that part of the conflict between Christianity and science in this area is due to misunderstandings about the meanings of the word. There are four … [Read more...] about The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, Pt. 2

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: Carolus Linnaeus, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, common descent, creation, DNA, fossil record, pseudogenes, The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, time

The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, Pt. 1

February 5, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen Leave a Comment

There are two main points of tension between the scientific account of natural history and the creation account in Genesis 1. In my last two posts I discussed the tension around the timing of creation events. In the next three posts I'm going to discuss the scientific view of the mechanism of creation. Then in several following posts I will talk about questions and tensions that Christians may have concerning the scientific view. The theory of evolution is the dominant scientific explanation for the history of life … [Read more...] about The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, Pt. 1

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: biological evolution, Calvin College Seminars in Christian Scholarship, chemical evolution, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, cosmological evolution, creation, evolution, fossil record, Genesis 1, mechanism of creation, natural history, Ralph Stearly, Seminar: Christian Grad Students in Paleobiology, The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, time

Timing of Creation Events – The View from the Bible

January 24, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 7 Comments

In my last post, we looked at the timing of creation events from the perspective of science. We saw that the scientific data indicate that the universe is 13.7 billion years old and the earth is 4.5 billion years old. In this post we are going to look at the view from the Bible. There is disagreement among conservative Christian theologians about the meaning of the “days” in the creation account of Genesis 1-2:3. There are four main interpretations: the 24-hour day view, the day/age view, the literary framework view … [Read more...] about Timing of Creation Events – The View from the Bible

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: bible, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, creation, Day/Age View, Genesis 1, John Walton, Literary Framework View, The Lost World of Genesis One, time, Twenty four-hour day view

Timing of Creation Events – The View from Science

January 22, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 2 Comments

So far in this series we've seen that: there can be no real conflict between science and the Bible because Scripture and nature are both revelations from God (click here) the main message of Genesis 1 is that God is the creator and that man is the pinnacle of his creation (click here); Genesis 1 does not intend to teach modern science (click here). In this and the next post we're examining more carefully one source of apparent tension between science and the Bible, namely the timing of the events of creation. … [Read more...] about Timing of Creation Events – The View from Science

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: Big Bang Theory, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, creation, Genesis 1, God and the Astronomers, Robert Jastrow, time, Wayne Grudem

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