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My Father the Artist
It must have been 1979. I was six years old and living in Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory. My mom and dad took my sister and me to the nearby Takhini Hot Springs. After an afternoon’s swim we...
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You Gotta Read This!
Dr. Jason Lisle, author of The Ultimate Proof of Creation, is blogging at the Biblical Science Institute. He’s written a really insightful post about how “deep time” functions as an idol in our day....
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Book Review: No Christian Silence on Science
No Christian Silence on Science: Science from a Christian Perspective, Margaret Helder. Edmonton: Creation Science Association of Alberta, 2016. Softcover, 110 pages. Many people have heroes. Also...
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Free film presents a history of the ID movement
Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines Documentary 60 minutes / 2016 RATING: 7/10 Revolutionary is a fantastic documentary about what a quiet professor did to get Darwinian...
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Words Can Be Slippery Things
It’s happened many times in church history. The theologian says that he believes in the resurrection. But eventually it comes out that he believes that Jesus truly rose from the dead in the hearts...
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The “Watchmaker Argument”
by Christine Farenhorst Two hundred years ago a bishop, by the name of William Paley, wrote a book in which he used a watch to illustrate how clear it was that God is real. He pointed out how many...
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AFTER EVOLUTION: 4 Reformed figures who accepted evolution and kept on moving
What follows are very brief bios of four prominent Reformed figures who have accepted evolution and gone on to accept increasingly unorthodox positions. Peter Enns Enns once taught at Westminster...
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Blame Augustine for “Adam” (I)
Here’s the first part of our response to the assertion that “no one in the Bible believed that construct of the historical Adam” and that the church father Augustine (A. D. 354–430) is really to blame...
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Blame Augustine for “Adam” (II)
Is it true that “no one in the Bible believed that construct of the historical Adam” but that the idea originates with the church father Augustine (354–430)? Such is the assertion of Scot McKnight, a...
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Video Review: Is Creation A Secondary Issue?
The following review is by Walter Walraven. It originally appeared in the February 2018 issue of Faith in Focus, the official magazine of the Reformed Churches of New Zealand. It is published here...
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DNA: good discovery, bad agenda
blue double helix models on background by Dr. Margaret Helder What a difference 65 years makes. It was in April of 1953 that a one-page letter appeared in the journal Nature. Two young scientists...
View ArticleMOLECULAR MOTORS: Design on a microscopic scale
by Margaret Helder One of the most famous molecular machines is the rotary bacterial flagellum made famous by Michael Behe in his book Darwin’s Black Box (1996). This miniature mechanical biological...
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I Believe in Theistic Evolution
I recently realized I believe in/affirm theistic evolution. Depending on your perspective, have I sold out or have I finally come to my senses? Neither. Let me explain. It has long perturbed me that...
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WONDERFUL WHALES: Design on a gigantic scale
by Margaret Helder When we look at nature, we can hardly miss the design that is everywhere so apparent in living creatures. We recognize it every time we see aspect of an organism that are elegant,...
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On DNA and how “things are seldom what they seem”
by Margaret Helder Sometimes we forget that scientists like to be amused just as much as other individuals, and the illustration in the November 20/08 issue of Nature is certainly amusing. You see...
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Theistic Evolution and the Creation of “Human Beings”
Back in late 2009, some ministerial colleagues and I were discussing with concern the apparently growing influence of evolutionary thinking in the Canadian Reformed Churches. What could we do about...
View ArticleCreation/Evolution: Ideas Have Consequences
Dr. Geoff Downes is the director of Forest Quality Pty. Ltd., a private research company in Tasmania seeking to develop and apply technology for non-destructive evaluation of wood properties in trees....
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How I changed my mind about evolution
Review of: How I Changed My Mind about Evolution: Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science, ed. Kathryn Applegate and J. B. Stump (Downers Grove: IVP, 2016). This book features twenty-five...
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The Ambiguity of Biblical “Background” (Noel Weeks)
In this blog entry and the next, I would like to introduce two excellent journal articles by Noel Weeks, both of which appeared in the Westminster Theological Journal. The first, featured here, is...
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Critique of John Walton (Noel Weeks)
This blog post provides a simpler account of a scholarly essay by Noel Weeks called, “The Bible and the ‘Universal’ Ancient World: A Critique of John Walton,” Westminster Theological Journal 78 (2016):...
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