http://biologos.org/blog en Copyright 2010 2010-09-06T16:21:53+00:00 http://biologos.org/blog/on-putting-our-hands-to-the-plow-and-not-looking-back/ http://biologos.org/blog/on-putting-our-hands-to-the-plow-and-not-looking-back/ BioLogos, unless we are careful, could evolve into a place for armchair philosophy. We could sit back in our comfortable chairs, coffee cups in hand, reading about biology, geology, biblical scholarship, theology, and the nature of science. We could easily become a sort of coffee club, where people drop in for a chat now and then, but have no real sense of urgency as they enter and leave the discussion chambers. {category_name} 2010-09-06T08:00:53-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/praise-the-father-and-the-creator/ http://biologos.org/blog/praise-the-father-and-the-creator/ The creation accounts of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 seem to tell completely different stories. In Genesis 1, creation is presented in successive stages, with God showing his satisfaction with each result. While the creation of man is mentioned, it is described rather vaguely, with the only specific detail being a mention of the "image of God." {category_name} 2010-09-05T08:00:07-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/top-list-survey-with-francis-beckwith/ http://biologos.org/blog/top-list-survey-with-francis-beckwith/ We ask philosopher Francis Beckwith, "What are you three favorite quotes on science and faith?" {category_name} 2010-09-04T08:00:12-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/biology-and-ideology-from-descartes-to-dawkins/ http://biologos.org/blog/biology-and-ideology-from-descartes-to-dawkins/ Ever since modern science emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries it has been used and abused for purposes that lie well beyond science. Biology has been particularly susceptible to ideological manipulation and application, a trend that shows no sign of abating. {category_name} 2010-09-03T08:00:44-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/was-adam-a-real-person-part-i/ http://biologos.org/blog/was-adam-a-real-person-part-i/ 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. {category_name} 2010-09-02T08:00:22-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/does-the-slippery-slope-always-go-to-the-left/ http://biologos.org/blog/does-the-slippery-slope-always-go-to-the-left/ 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. {category_name} 2010-09-01T08:00:29-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/the-problem-with-literalism-introduction/ http://biologos.org/blog/the-problem-with-literalism-introduction/ 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. {category_name} 2010-08-31T08:00:58-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/the-agency-assumption-why-do-we-look-for-intelligence-in-the-unknown/ http://biologos.org/blog/the-agency-assumption-why-do-we-look-for-intelligence-in-the-unknown/ 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. {category_name} 2010-08-30T08:00:18-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/thoughts-on-unity-and-integrity/ http://biologos.org/blog/thoughts-on-unity-and-integrity/ “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. {category_name} 2010-08-29T08:00:23-05:00 http://biologos.org/blog/timaeus-parable/ http://biologos.org/blog/timaeus-parable/ Now suppose that a number of people from this area travel to the coast. While there, they encounter some learned men who say that the earth is not flat but curved, and when they ask how a learned man could hold a view so silly, so much against common observation and against the apparent teaching of Scripture, they are instructed by the learned men with geometrical arguments. {category_name} 2010-08-28T08:00:26-05:00