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Christianity and science series

Is Evolution Compatible with belief in God as the Creator?

April 2, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 2 Comments

This is the third in a series of blog posts concerned with Christian questions about evolution. In my last post we saw that science does not rule out God because it is not competent to address the question of God. But, is evolution compatible with belief in God as the Creator? That is the topic of this post. A major concern for some Christians is that there is no need for God in the process of evolution. Ironically, this is also the view of atheists. In his book The God Delusion, the atheist biologist Richard … [Read more...] about Is Evolution Compatible with belief in God as the Creator?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: alister mcgrath, atheism, Augustine, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Christian questions about evolution, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, Convergent Evolution, Creator, evolution, Origin of Species, Peter Atkins, Richard Dawkins, Robert Jastrow

Does science rule out God?

March 19, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 3 Comments

This is the second in a series of blog posts concerned with Christian questions about evolution. A major question for me after I became a Christian was: Does science in general and evolution in particular rule out God? I know that is also a question that troubles many Christians. You may remember that in my first post on the Mechanism of Creation, the View from Science, I said that there were four meanings of evolution. The first three  change over time,  common descent,  evolution by natural selection  are conclusions … [Read more...] about Does science rule out God?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: Asa Gray, atheism, Carl Sagan, Christian questions about evolution, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, Cosmos, evolution, francis collins, John Polkinghorne, Richard Dawkins, Theodosius Dobzhansky

Does Intelligent Design Rule Out Evolution?

March 12, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 9 Comments

In the next series of blog posts we are going to look at Christian questions about evolution. In my last post we saw that two of the Christian views of creation, Young Earth Creationism and Old Earth Creationism, disagree with the scientific account of the mechanism of creation. Because of this we need to ask, is evolution true? Perhaps the strongest recent challenge to evolution has been the Intelligent Design movement. For the rest of this post we are going to look at Intelligent Design and ask if it is a better … [Read more...] about Does Intelligent Design Rule Out Evolution?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: biological intelligent design, chance vs. design, Christian questions about evolution, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, creation, Darwin’s Black Box, evolution, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Michael Behe, Russell Doolittle, specificity, William Dembski

Christian Views of Creation

March 5, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 7 Comments

In this post, I'm going to discuss three Christian views of creation (young earth creationism, old earth creationism and theistic evolution) with the goal of identifying points of agreement and points of tension with each other and with the view from science discussed in my previous posts. I'm also going to compare the Christian views with philosophical naturalism, a world-view that is often confused with the scientific view. A comparison of these views is shown in the table. … [Read more...] about Christian Views of Creation

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, creation, evolution, old earth creationism, philosophical naturalism, theistic evolution, young earth creationism

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

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