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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

Expert versus Lay Calendars — Thoughts from “Objects of Time”

April 26, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

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A written calendar, then, is not so much as a cognitive tool to assist the reckoning of time, but a cognitive and cultural tool that can either promote social coordination or intersubjective senses of uncanniness, or even both, as in the case of the Jewish calendar. Calendars as artifacts are tools of power and social coordination. There also is an important contrast between complex calendars that require trained experts to interpret them versus simple calendars that almost anyone can use. The former are associated with … [Read more...] about Expert versus Lay Calendars — Thoughts from “Objects of Time”

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: calendar, cognition, Gregorian calendar, Kevin Birth, Objects of Time, time, time management, uncanniness

How would you describe your “time consciousness?”

October 12, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

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While reading  Kevin Birth‘s  Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality,  I wondered if weekends provide an opportunity to tell time differently. There is a danger in viewing the clock as necessary for certain cognitive tasks simply  because  we use it for those tasks. The importance of clock time in twenty-first-century economic practices cannot be used as grounds for  assuming  that it was necessary for economic practices in the medieval period. This  misconception  is key to the view of medieval timekeeping as … [Read more...] about How would you describe your “time consciousness?”

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: canonical hours, clock, cognition, horological thought, Kevin Birth, Middle Ages, Objects of Time, time, time management

“What, then, is time?”

October 11, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV 4 Comments

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As some of you know, I've been enjoying ESN blogger/mentor Kevin Birth's provocative Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality  (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY: 2012). Augustine of Hippo wrote, "What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who asks me, I do not know" (1997 [ca. 397-98], 256). The question stumps us for quite different reasons. We surround ourselves with cognitive artifacts to tell us what time is, and the time these artifacts represent is  demonstrably … [Read more...] about “What, then, is time?”

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Astronomy, Augustine, calendar, clock, cognition, cross-cultural communication, Derrida, Kevin Birth, Objects of Time, physics, time, time management

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