This outrageous statement comes from the book Redeeming Science, by Vern Poythress. It flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that science disproves the existence of God, or at least that scientists must set aside any belief in God in order to do science well. Atheist thinkers like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris,…
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WORLD Magazine interview
For their June 29, 2013 books issue, WORLD Magazine interviewed me about the release of my novel, Quintessence. Only a condensed version of the interview appeared in the magazine, but they gave me permission to reprint the entire interview here. It was conducted by writer and book reviewer John Ottinger, a thoughtful interviewer whose questions…
Which Came First, The Chicken or the Prolate Ellipsoid?
One of the most remarkable things about this universe we’re living in is that mathematics actually works. It’s easy to forget that math doesn’t really exist in the physical world. Math is our idealized description of what we see, a symbolic logic that encodes patterns that humans recognize. It describes an imaginary world that exists…
The Jupiter Effect
When looking up at Jupiter recently, it occurred to me that the effect of the night sky on humanity hasn’t changed much in thousands of years. We can imagine the awe and wonder with which ancient people would have looked at the sky. They could watch and track the movements of the sun and stars…
Mind and Cosmos
I recently read a lengthy and fascinating review of the book Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel. Nagel is an atheist philosopher who objects to the idea that Darwinism can explain everything about what it means to be human. I’m not sure how much I agree with him (and I haven’t read the book), but…
John Walton at Cairn University
My uncle, John Walton, is a Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. He’s going to be speaking this Tuesday at Cairn University. His talk is on Genesis 1 and 2. He is a wonderful speaker, interesting and accessible, and he’s the author of The Lost World of Genesis, which I recommend highly. If you…
Religion in Fiction
I was at a convention in New York this weekend, where I ended up on a panel with David Silverman, president of American Atheists, on the topic of religion in fiction. American Atheists is the organization founded by Madalyn Murray O’Hair, most famous recently for their atheist billboard campaign publicly attacking various religions. Silverman himself…
The Philosophy of Science
This is the seventh post in a series I’ve been writing about science and Christianity. The others were: 1. How Can A Christian Write Science Fiction? 2. The Age of the Stars 3. The Age of the Rocks 4. Random Chance vs. Design 5. Science and Genesis 1 6. Science and Adam In my last…
Science and Adam
This is the sixth post in a series I’m writing about science and Christianity. The others so far were: 1. How Can A Christian Write Science Fiction? 2. The Age of the Stars 3. The Age of the Rocks 4. Random Chance vs. Design 5. Science and Genesis 1 In my last post, I tried…
Science and Genesis 1
This is the fifth post in a series I’m writing about science and Christianity. The others so far were: 1. How Can A Christian Write Science Fiction? 2. The Age of the Stars 3. The Age of the Rocks 4. Random Chance vs. Design Perhaps the most difficult barrier to a Christian accepting the evidence…
Random Chance vs. Design
This is the fourth post in a series I’m writing about science and Christianity. The others were: 1. How Can A Christian Write Science Fiction? 2. The Age of the Stars 3. The Age of the Rocks In my last few posts, I argued that our universe appears to be ancient, quite apart from the theory of…
The Age of the Rocks
This is the third post in a series I’m writing about science and Christianity. The others were: 1. How Can A Christian Write Science Fiction? 2. The Age of the Stars My high school biology course used a Bob Jones textbook that maintained that the Earth was 6000 years old. From this book, I learned…
The Age of the Stars
This is the second of a series of posts I’m writing about science and Christianity. The first was “How Can A Christian Write Science Fiction?” The chief source of conflict between Christianity and science in our century is, of course, the Creation vs. Evolution debate. A simple search on the Internet unleashes an avalanche of…
How can a Christian write science fiction?
I love science, and I am a Christian. I believe the Bible is the word of God, and I think science is a reliable source of knowledge. To many, this may seem to be contradictory. There is a presumption that Christianity and science are conflicting belief systems, or at best, are conflicting sources of knowledge that…
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