Science & the Sacred

Karl Giberson, Darrel Falk, Pete Enns, Kathryn Applegate and other leading scholars provide 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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Was Adam a Real Person? Part I

By Denis Lamoureux | September 2, 2010 | Category: Guest Features

De novo creation is the ancient conceptualization of origins found in the Bible. This term is made up of the Latin words de meaning “from” and novus “new.” Stated more precisely, it is a view of origins that results in things and beings that are brand new.

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Does the Slippery Slope Always Go to the Left?

By N.T. Wright and Peter Enns | September 1, 2010 | Category: Video Blogs

In this video Conversation, Peter Enns asks author and theologian N.T. Wright to respond to a question from a BioLogos Forum reader about the implications of the relationship between politics and religion within the evangelical movement.

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The Problem with Literalism: Introduction

By Pete Enns | August 31, 2010 | Category: BioLogos Features

As the logic goes, once you start down the road of not taking the Bible literally, there is no telling where that road will end. In fact, that road becomes a slippery slope to unbelief. Individual Christians will be free to pick and choose what parts of the Bible are binding and which parts aren’t.

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The Agency Assumption: Why Do We Look for Intelligence in the Unknown?

By Gordon J. Glover | August 30, 2010 | Category: Guest Features

It’s difficult to describe, but something irregular in the audio signal got me thinking that the noise was being generated by a critter! Once I made the mental connection to deliberate conscious activity, I easily imagined that a rat was chewing a hole in something. Or that my daughter’s hamster was on the loose.

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Thoughts on Unity and Integrity

By Kathryn Applegate | August 29, 2010 | Category: Worship

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness,” wrote C.S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain. He went on, “Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.” God, the very source of love, isn’t merely kind to us—he is zealous for the purity and integrity of his people.

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