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Stephanie Holmer

Healing through the ESN Steam Grant Project

Oct 21, 2018By ESN Announce

When I was approached to lead conversations with graduate students about science and faith topics as part of the ESN STEAM grant project, I accepted with a good deal of hesitation. Read more…

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Oct 21, 2018ESN Announce 0 Comments

How should Christians in the sciences choose an epistemology? (STEAM Grant Series)

Jun 9, 2018By Jim Stump

I used to teach a college course called “Epistemology” but the name scared off too many potential students, so we changed it to “Theories of Knowledge.”Read more…

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Jun 9, 2018Jim Stump 0 Comments

Adam, Where are You? (STEAM Grant Series)

Jun 1, 2018By Gerald Rau

How much have you read about different models of human origin, from either a scientific or theological perspective?Read more…

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Jun 1, 2018Gerald Rau 5 comments

Summary and Reflection on the Christianity and Science Series

May 14, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

Introduction Are Christianity and science at war? This was a major concern for me when I came to faith in Christ 22 years ago in the middle of my career as a biology professor at Iowa State University. Although itRead more…

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May 14, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 22 comments

Nature as a Christian Apologetic: Intelligent Design Revisited

May 7, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

Introduction This is the second of a two-part series addressing the question of whether nature can be used as a Christian apologetic. Natural theology is a discipline that systematically explores the proposed link between God and nature. The traditional approachRead more…

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May 7, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 1 comment

Nature as a Christian Apologetic: The Open Secret

Apr 23, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

Introduction In previous blogs, we’ve seen that God reveals himself to man through nature and through scripture and we’ve been addressing questions about how man’s interpretations of these revelations can be reconciled. In the next two blogs we are goingRead more…

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Apr 23, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 0 Comments

What about Adam and Eve? Part 2

Apr 16, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

Introduction This is the fifth in a series of blog posts concerned with Christian questions about evolution. One of the biggest questions is what to do about Adam and Eve. In my last post I said the Bible teaches thatRead more…

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Apr 16, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 0 Comments

What about Adam and Eve? Part 1

Apr 9, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

Introduction This is the fourth in a series of blog posts concerned with Christian questions about evolution. One of the biggest dilemmas is what to do about Adam and Eve. Were they real people? How were they created? Was Adam theRead more…

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Apr 9, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 0 Comments

Is Evolution Compatible with belief in God as the Creator?

Apr 2, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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.Read more…

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Apr 2, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 1 comment

Does science rule out God?

Mar 19, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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 knowRead more…

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Mar 19, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 3 comments

Does Intelligent Design Rule Out Evolution?

Mar 12, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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 withRead more…

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Mar 12, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 9 comments

Christian Views of Creation

Mar 5, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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 viewRead more…

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Mar 5, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 5 comments

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

Feb 19, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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 andRead more…

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Feb 19, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 5 comments

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

Feb 12, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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 mightRead more…

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Feb 12, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 11 comments

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

Feb 5, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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 threeRead more…

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Feb 5, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 0 Comments

Timing of Creation Events – The View from the Bible

Jan 24, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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.Read more…

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Jan 24, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 7 comments

Timing of Creation Events – The View from Science

Jan 22, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

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 isRead more…

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Jan 22, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 2 comments

Does Genesis 1 Teach Modern Science?

Jan 15, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

In my last blog post we saw that the main message of Genesis 1 is that God is the creator of all. Not only is this a central theme of Genesis 1, but it is also a central theme of theRead more…

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Jan 15, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 7 comments

The Message of Genesis 1

Jan 9, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

As I discussed in the previous post of the Christianity and Science series, much of the controversy surrounding Genesis 1 revolves around two issues: the timing of the events of creation and the mechanism of creation. Did God create over a period ofRead more…

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Jan 9, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 5 comments

Dealing with Tension between Science and the Bible

Jan 8, 2014By Tom Ingebritsen

In this series of blogs, I’m going to highlight some of the main insights that I have gained from teaching an honors class on Christianity and Science.Read more…

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Jan 8, 2014Tom Ingebritsen 10 comments

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