Human consciousness remains a contentious subject between science and philosophy. The distinction between the easy problem, which addresses the brain's activities, and the hard problem, which explores how physical stimuli give rise to subjective experiences, highlights the limitations of materialist explanations. These gaps call for deeper investigation beyond material science.
When young earth creationists claim geology, or even paleontology, is all evolutionary, and especially when they associate any claim of an ancient age of the earth and universe as evolutionary, or darwinian, or atheistic, they are not presenting the truth accurately.
In my own experience with Christians (especially leaders) who believe the earth is very young, one of the most popular lines of argument given to explain how a young earth could be possible in light of what we know about the earth from science is to appeal to the Appearance of Age Argument (sometimes referred... Continue Reading →
Recently, I was given a rare opportunity to give a short 20-minute lecture on the New Testament Gospels as reliable history in a secular setting. For the purposes of the lecture, I was not trying to prove the gospels as true, but only as historical. Obviously, I believe them to be true. However, I try... Continue Reading →
There are a lot of voices to be heard in the various evangelical debates regarding creation and evolution. Unfortunately, it is all too rare to find a humble and wise spirit behind them. Much is lost in this type of environment. Often, we evangelicals, particularly of the American variety, remain stuck in our own web... Continue Reading →
What does it take to build an animal? Not out of clay, crayons, or macaroni, but a real life, in the flesh, animal. Or, to try to make things a bit easier than starting from scratch, what would it take to turn one animal, with a unique body plan, into another unique animal? By this... Continue Reading →