自然科學

Why do men’s testicles hang outside the body? Why does our appendix sometimes explode and kill us? And who does the Designer like better, anyway–us or squid? These and other questions are addressed in The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not. Dr. Abb… 詳閱

Up to one million refugees are expected to arrive in Germany by end of this year, hoping to gain asylum in the European Union’s largest country. Many are arriving from Muslim-majority countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran. But while German churches have been eager to materially support the refugees, Christian… 詳閱

The book starts with a survey of the kinds of evils we encounter in the world, allowing Oord to acknowledge the genuine harm these events cause and the real challenge explaining them poses. He then explores the role that natural phenomena play in causing harm, as in hurricanes or droughts… 詳閱

A new Pew Research poll released yesterday yields some fascinating insights into the perceived conflict between science and religion. The poll confirms previous findings that a majority of Americans (59%) think science and religion are “often in conflict.” However, this poll also asked respondents if science conflicts with their ow… 詳閱

From a general survey of the human race, it appears that one of the essential properties of our nature is reason, which distinguishes us from the lower animals, just as these by means of sense are distinguished from inanimate objects. For although some individuals are born without reason, that defec… 詳閱

“Why does it always seems to be science telling us that we need to change our interpretation of Scripture? Shouldn’t it be the other way around sometimes? Shouldn’t Scripture provide the lenses through which we look at the world?” I’ve been asked those questions by students, by pastors, and eve… 詳閱

Evolution claims that we evolved from monkeys. If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys around? The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics disproves evolution No new information can be added to DNA through natural processes. Evolution is a theory in crisis. There are no transitional fossils. Evolution is merel… 詳閱

Thus, the problem in a nutshell: How does the Christian claim that a good God creates a good creation account for the ubiquity of these negative aspects of nature when they are necessary and/or inevitable given the very structure of that creation?  What do we make of the notion tha… 詳閱

So a very serious issue arises for anyone who cares about how Christians determine what Christians are to believe about heaven and NDEs. In other words, if many Christians—the numbers who buy NDE books, the numbers who go to this movie—believe a story like Don Piper’s because it confirms thei… 詳閱

What about the more specific issue of how evolutionary science fits with the Biblical account of creation in Genesis 1 and 2? Surely there we have a head-on collision. No, that’s not the case. Different Christian thinkers use all of Barbour’s models of relating science to faith—conflict, dialogue, integration, an… 詳閱