Tag Archives: Genesis

Has Darwin Put Adam And Eve In Checkmate?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by

The problem. Here’s the reality: Darwin upended special creation, leaving basically just one plausible chess move to anyone who accepts evolution and posits a literal Adam and Eve: the miraculous insertion of a soul into an already evolved species of … Continue reading →

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Genesis vs. Evolution–with Edward Feser to Religion’s Rescue!

Posted on July 19, 2015 by

The cake God bakes. In Genesis, to get a community with souls, God has a simple recipe. He: spends six days making heaven and earth takes inorganic matter–dust–from the newly created ground forms the dust into a man and places … Continue reading →

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Epidurals and Pains in Childbirth: Why Do Arguments Start and Stop Where They Do?

Posted on June 11, 2015 by

People often claim that they’re appealing to reason in argumentation, but the way they reason frequently reveals more about them than the truth. Put another way, an argument often says more about your inward passions, sensibilities, and imaginative world than … Continue reading →

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Buzz: Stephen Greenblatt’s Adam And Eve Book Coming Soon?

Posted on May 25, 2015 by

I don’t see the book listed at Amazon yet, but in an interview last year, Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, an atheist, said his next book would be on Adam and Eve. He’s also been teaching a course on Adam and Eve at … Continue reading →

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How to Save Adam and Eve from Genetics and Darwin

Posted on May 10, 2015 by

Darwin and genetics have blown up the idea that Adam and Eve had a special creation physically. No new species tends to bottleneck down to two (unless perhaps two stray birds get isolated on an island and start a new … Continue reading →

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Why Adam and Eve Never Existed (Illustrated By An Analogy To Birds On An Island)

Posted on March 25, 2015 by

Imagine an island off the coast of a continent. Two birds from the continent–a male and female–get swept up by a storm and find themselves stranded on this island. They go on to mate and a new species of bird … Continue reading →

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An Analogy for Comprehending Why Population Geneticists Say Adam and Eve Never Existed

Posted on December 30, 2014 by

Imagine an island off the coast of a continent. Two birds from the continent–a male and a female–get swept up by a storm and find themselves stranded on this island. They go on to mate and a new species of … Continue reading →

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Some Good Reasons to Think Adam and Eve Never Existed

Posted on December 28, 2014 by

First, there was never a bottleneck of two people that accounts for the diversity of humans living today. Second, geneticists tell us that the diversity of contemporary humans derives from no less than 12,500 black African ancestors, 2,500 of whom … Continue reading →

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Adam and Eve Did Not Exist. What Now?

Posted on March 4, 2014 by

Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, at The New Republic, states the problem succinctly: The most recent scientific finding that’s causing Christian ferment is the calculation by evolutionary geneticists that the smallest size the population of humans could have experienced when it … Continue reading →

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Bill Nye on the Age of the Earth

Posted on June 23, 2013 by

Speaking at Iowa State University recently, Bill Nye was asked about the theory of evolution vs. the theory of special creation. Here’s how The New York Times this week reported his response (and the response he received from the audience): During … Continue reading →

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A Creation Story

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

__________ It seems to have started as an argument. Nothing became something, rapidly expanding to a whole laundry list of things. Separation and settlement followed. Over time things cooled. Mother got her planets, Father took to the stars. As in any divorce, vast … Continue reading →

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The Human Lowdown

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

Here’s our basic human story based on genetics. 60,000 years ago there was drought in Africa brought on by an ice age to its north. The human species lived only in Africa and had dwindled to perhaps 2,000 individuals. They looked like … Continue reading →

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Marco Rubio: Young Earth Creationist?

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

Holy crap! The GOP is putting forward Marco Rubio as a future President of the United States, and he can’t give an interviewer for GQ a straightforward answer to an elementary science question: GQ: How old do you think the Earth … Continue reading →

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The Moon’s Origin (And Why Genesis Cannot Be Right About It)

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

Concerning the moon’s origin, the Los Angeles Times today tells the basic scientific story with admirable clarity: The Earth and moon formed after the proto-Earth collided with another huge planetary body, sometimes referred to as Theia. […] Two planets, one Earth-sized … Continue reading →

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Paul Broun: Big Bang and Evolution Come From The Pit Of Hell

Posted on October 6, 2012 by

Paul Broun is a medical doctor. He’s also a Republican Congressman from Georgia who serves as the chair of a science committee in the House of Representatives. The chair. Of a science. Committee. Here’s what he says about the Big … Continue reading →

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Evolutionary Psychology Watch: Why Do People Tend to Like Honey and Fear Spiders?

Posted on September 23, 2012 by

According to Heather Pringle, maybe, with regard to honey, it’s because it played a role in our evolution: In a recent paper, Alyssa Crittenden, an anthropologist and behavioral ecologist, at the University of Nevada, points out that wild honey is one … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking’s “Did God Create the Universe?”

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

A thought-provoking reflection on the universe’s origin. __________ My fuller take on Hawking’s documentary is here.

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The Man with the Hoe (Millet’s Painting and Markham’s Poem)

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

In the late 1890s, Edwin Markham was visiting San Francisco and found himself awestruck by Millet’s painting of “The Man with the Hoe” (which now resides as part of the permanent collection of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, if … Continue reading →

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Evolution for Evangelicals: Biologos Recently Held a Conference in NYC

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Here’s a bit of what Christianity Today reported about it: The most sobering moment for attendees of the Biologos “Theology of Celebration” conference in New York City, March 20–22 [2012], came when David Kinnaman of Barna Research presented findings on … Continue reading →

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A Universe from Nothing? David Albert Owns Lawrence Krauss

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

In a recent review for the New York Times, philosopher David Albert explains the basic thesis of physicist Lawrence Krauss’s new book, A Universe From Nothing, in terms that are clear as a bell, then he skewers it just as effectively. … Continue reading →

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