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Science Corner: Message in a Bauble

March 18, 2020 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

I imagine we could also use a break from the science story that is dominating headlines, so let's dig a little deeper for something else to talk about: fossils. There were a pair of stories about discoveries encased in amber. Both are dated around 99 million years old and come from Myanmar. (You can read more about the recent boom in Myanmar amber and its complicated ethics.) One of the fossils is a tiny dinosaur, likely from the branch of the dinosaur family tree that gave us modern day birds. The other fossil is … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Message in a Bauble

Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: fossil record, science, science corner, termites

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

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