By MInTheGap on May 9, 2008 in Creation | 4 Comments
One of the things that I’ve seen in many of the debates that I’ve recently entered about the origins of the world and the existence of God is really unfruitful and fails to recognize the complexity of the discussion.
It is rooted in the strong belief of the veracity of their side of the argument. Very [...]
By MInTheGap on Apr 15, 2008 in Bible, Creation, Culture and Noteworthy | 66 Comments
Have you heard about this movie yet?
I started seeing ads for this movie show up at my site, but I had no idea what it was about. It turns out that Ben Stein has created a movie that documents how professors that choose not to believe in Evolution are systematically denied access to [...]
By MInTheGap on Apr 10, 2008 in Creation | 2 Comments
Ken Ham?
The Saturday Guardian contained an article with the sub-heading, “Dawkins’s worst nightmare takes his literalist Biblical message on a tour of the UK.” The reporter came by train from London to attend my speaking events in Leicester (in central England).
I’ve personally met Ken Ham, and he’s not close to anyone’s “worst nightmare”. Would [...]
By MInTheGap on Mar 5, 2008 in Creation | 6 Comments
One of the interesting this to me in the whole Creation/Evolution argument is the belief that somehow science is the answer to everything and is the expert on everything. Science, it seems, can tell you both if there’s a God and what happened throughout time, and it should never be questioned.
The strange thing is [...]
By MInTheGap on Feb 20, 2008 in Creation | 1 Comment
Try to explain a lunar eclipse to two boys that aren’t even in school. It was a fun adventure as I tried to explain to them about the Sun, the rotation around the Earth and why the moon was going to disappear for a little while. But that wasn’t the most interesting part of the [...]
By MInTheGap on Nov 7, 2007 in Bible, Creation, Culture and Noteworthy | 26 Comments
Have you ever stopped to think about how differently we look at things in the age of science than they did in Bible times? I often muse on the whole concept of relying on God totally, and, in doing so, think about all that we think we understand today and what it has [...]
By MInTheGap on Nov 5, 2007 in Creation | 20 Comments
If you had to guess what the number one reason for Christians that attend secular universities to leave their faith what would you guess?
I’m sure that some might guess that it would be liberal teaching. Others would guess that they get into the wrong crowds. And I suppose some could argue that these college students [...]