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On Ray Comfort's "On the Origin of Species"

Date: 11/19/2009

Though originally scheduled to take place today, volunteers gathered yesterday on college campuses across the United States to distribute free copies of Darwin's seminal work On the Origin of Species . The volumes included one extra item not found in the original book: an introduction by creationist Ray Comfort, which offers arguments against the theory of evolution. Among his challenges are t ...

Related Topics: Arguments Against, Biologos, Creationism, Darwin, Evidence Of, Evolution, Hitler, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Cameron, Logic, Origin Of Species, Ray Comfort, Religion, Science, Thermodynamics

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Songs and Speciation

Date: 11/18/2009

(Image courtesy of Wired.com) How many times have you heard someone ask the question: "Have scientists ever actually observed the formation of a new species?" Our standard answer is that speciation is an event that occurs over thousands of years, one would not expect to be able to observe it. However, a fascinating paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNA ...

Related Topics: Birds, Darwin, Evolution, Evolutionary Divergence, Finches, Genes, Genetic Variation, Peter Grant, Rosemary Grant, Science, Selection, Speciation, Species

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An Incarnational Model

Date: 11/13/2009

Every Friday, "Science and the Sacred" features an essay from a guest voice in the science and religion dialogue. This week's guest entry was written by Peter Enns. Enns is an evangelical Christian scholar and author of several books and commentaries, including the popular Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament , which looks at three questions rais ...

Related Topics: Bible, Biologos, C.S. Lewis, Christ, Christianity, Creationism, Darwin, Evangelicals, Evolution, Faith, Fundamentalism, Mesopotamian Literature, Peter Enns, Science, Translation, Young Earth Creationism

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Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life

Date: 11/10/2009

VATICAN CITY - E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. "The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserv ...

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Tiny Tails Wagging Gigantic Dogs

Date: 11/09/2009

Every Monday, "Science and the Sacred" features an essay from one of The BioLogos Foundation's co-presidents: Karl Giberson and Darrel Falk. Today's entry was written by Karl Giberson. In my last blog post I addressed some questions of logic that had been raised on a popular anti-evolutionary blog, and how scientific arguments are often caricatured to make them appear to be committing log ...

Related Topics: Answers In Genesis, Arguments, Biologos, Creationism, Darwin, Dinosaurs, Dragons, Evolution, Fossils, Geology, Logic, Science, Young Earth Creationism

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Science and an Incarnational Approach to the Bible

Date: 11/06/2009

Every Friday, "Science and the Sacred" features an essay from a guest voice in the science and religion dialogue. This week's guest entry was written by Peter Enns. Enns is an evangelical Christian scholar and author of several books and commentaries, including the popular Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament , which looks at three questions raise ...

Related Topics: Bible, Christ, Christianity, Creationism, Evangelicals, Evolution, Faith, Fundamentalism, Peter Enns, Science, Young Earth Creationism

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Some Cold Weather Reading

Date: 11/03/2009

For some of us, the shortening daylight hours and colder weather means more time to curl up with a good book in the evenings. For those looking for new books to read during the fall and winter months, BioLogos offers a selection of excellent books about the harmony of science and faith on our Web site BioLogos.org. Here's a sampling of the 37 titles that make up our " Recommended Books " section: ...

Related Topics: Biologos, Book Clubs, Books, Darwin, Denis Lamoureux, Education, Evolution, John Polkinghorne, Karl Giberson, Nicholad Beale, Reading, Religion, Ron Numbers, Science

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Paley and Kingsley

Date: 10/28/2009

In his work Natural Theology , philosopher William Paley proposed his famous "watchmaker" argument for the existence to God. According to Paley, just as the intricate design of a watch implies a designer, so too the intricate design of the universe implies the existence of a cosmic designer. He pointed to the fine-tuning of natural systems like the eye as examples of his theory. Yet, with th ...

Related Topics: Alister Mcgrath, Charles Kinglsey, Darwin, Evolution, Fine Tuning, Natural Theology, Origin Of Species, Religion, Science, Theology, Watchmaker, William Paley