"Test everything; hold fast to what is good."
One of my pet-peeve misconceptions is the notion that an illiterately literal reading of Genesis 1-11 is somehow an expression of “conservative” theology. It isn’t. Of course this “literal” belief in the six-day creation of a young earth isn’t liberal theology either. It’s just bad theology. Not orthodox, not conservative or liberal, just wrong — [...]
So the other day I tripped over Tubal-cain and wound up wishing I’d paid more attention in my biblical studies classes and/or done more of the reading for my history classes. Let me explain where this is going, then ask for your help in pointing me toward where I might learn more to sort this [...]
The “Omphalos hypothesis” discussed in the previous post is horrifying as theology. The idea that the Creator is also the Great Deceiver suggests some rather appalling aspects of the character of God. But it does make for fertile ground for some potentially fascinating, or at least amusing, storytelling. Think again of that 28,000-year-old Australian rock [...]
The results from the annual Gallup survey on creationism are out, with the numbers right about where they’ve been for the past 30 years. Finding yet again that 46 percent of Americans do not “believe” in evolution remains, to me, “dismaying.” (The link there is to my post responding to a similar survey in 2009. [...]
RJS at Jesus Creed reminds us that anyone who wants to know what the Bible says about creation can’t just stick with Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 (or with some half-baked attempt to harmonize Genesis 1 and Genesis 2). Citing William P. Brown’s book The Seven Pillars of Creation, RJS notes that there are many [...]
Jonathan Dudley in Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics: I learned a few things growing up as an evangelical Christian: that abortion is murder; homosexuality, sin; evolution, nonsense; and environmentalism, a farce. I learned to accept these ideas — the “big four” — as part of the package deal of [...]
Young-earth creationist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis says that his expertise in science is every bit as legitimate as his expertise in biblical interpretation. I agree. You should too. So-called “scientific creationists” like Ham claim that they are doing “biblical science,” but what they are doing has just as little to do with the [...]
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