Science & the Sacred
Karl Giberson, Darrel Falk, Pete Enns and other leading scholars provide dynamic and timely insights into science, faith and their integration. These blogs feature authors’ current projects, their reactions to events, books and politics, and their personal reflections on the harmony of science and faith.
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By Enns, Pete | March 9, 2010 | Category: BioLogos Features
In my experience, a lot of Christians have come to some peace with all of this. They may handle it in different ways, and some may not have arrived at a conclusion, but they at least recognize that something has to be done. They sense that a simple literal reading of the Adam story won’t work without creating a lot of cognitive dissonance, and so they are open to ideas. But, sooner or later, another issue comes up that is hard to get around and for some simply ends the discussion entirely: Paul.
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March 8, 2010 | Category: Guest Features
At the end of last year, Darrel Falk posted his reflections on Stephen Meyer’s book, Signature in the Cell. Francisco Ayala, who is one of the most respected evolutionary biologists alive today was asked to respond to the concerns Falk had raised. Meyer was offered an opportunity to respond to Falk's reflections as well. He accepted, and expressed a desire to respond to Ayala also. Today we post Part 1 of his response.
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March 7, 2010 | Category: BioLogos Reflections
Science can tell us how flowers bloom and how the sun rises and sets each day. Science has even begun to give us insight into the processes that may have brought about life itself - processes that seem to go against the idea of a literalist six day interpretation of Genesis. Does such knowledge mean we cannot look upon these natural wonders and experience the same awe of our Creator, as described in the verses above? Is the beauty of nature diminished simply because we better understand it?
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March 6, 2010 | Category: Video Blogs
In this video conversation, Karl Giberson advocates for an understanding of the Creator that places more emphasis on his sustainment of creation and less on its origins. Giberson notes that one of the things that the New Atheists have succeeded in doing is setting the frame of the debate by suggesting that unless we can point to what God is “doing”, that is, what he is actively creating—then he can’t exist.
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By Glover, Gordon J. | March 5, 2010 | Category: Guest Features
In other words, if God created the first living things simply by speaking them into existence, He would not have been bound by any physical constraints. Being completely unconstrained, God would have presumably been free to design and create species without following any discernible patterns. Or He could have chosen to mix and match different patterns according to His pleasure. Either of these scenarios would have been unmistakable evidence of special creation.
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