http://biologos.org/blog en Copyright 2012 2012-02-06T12:00:11+00:00 2828 http://biologos.org/blog/lets-not-surrender-science-to-the-secular-world-part-5 http://biologos.org/blog/lets-not-surrender-science-to-the-secular-world-part-5 Of course, for us to know how to use science correctly we must first have a clear understanding of what we mean when we speak of science. This is doubly important because, as I see it, there is a deep sense of confusion about the true nature of science—among both Christians and non-Christians alike. {category_name} 2012-02-06T08:00:11-05:00 2831 http://biologos.org/blog/frenetic-sequence http://biologos.org/blog/frenetic-sequence We tend to think of creativity in terms of flashes of insight and brilliance, of novelty, and especially of unexpected things bursting upon the scene. But creativity is no less creative and no less remarkable when it proceeds step by step, according to discipline, according to rule. We notice significant ruptures in the flow of things and upheavals of the regularity and predictability of life, faith, or science, precisely because such revolutions happen against a background of the ordinary. {category_name} 2012-02-05T01:25:52-05:00 2830 http://biologos.org/blog/beauty-from-the-bleak http://biologos.org/blog/beauty-from-the-bleak Physical death is a necessary and, perhaps, disconcerting element of the evolutionary process for many Christians. It is difficult to imagine a perfect and loving God designing such a universe where forces such as natural death and entropy operated. Michael Gungor of Bloom Church in Colorado addresses this idea and offers wisdom on such a complex issue. {category_name} 2012-02-04T11:00:33-05:00 2829 http://biologos.org/blog/understanding-evolution-is-there-junk-in-your-genome-part-3 http://biologos.org/blog/understanding-evolution-is-there-junk-in-your-genome-part-3 For a tiny fraction of processed pseudogenes, however, this may not be the end of the story. As we saw previously for transposon insertions, in rare cases the arrival of new DNA sequence at a chromosomal location might alter a cellular function and then be selected for on that basis. {category_name} 2012-02-03T09:36:48-05:00 2826 http://biologos.org/blog/what-i-wish-my-pastor-knew-about-the-life-of-a-scientist-part-1 http://biologos.org/blog/what-i-wish-my-pastor-knew-about-the-life-of-a-scientist-part-1 I am married to a scientist — to be specific, an experimental physicist (which I’d like to think is the very best kind). For more than 15 years now I’ve accompanied Catherine through a life in physics, a kind of Pilgrim’s Progress. So here is what I wish our pastors — and fellow Christians — knew about the life of a working scientist. {category_name} 2012-02-02T07:59:59-05:00 2825 http://biologos.org/blog/in-the-face-of-evidence http://biologos.org/blog/in-the-face-of-evidence In today's video, Rev. Dr. Michael Lloyd talks about how being created in the Image of God transcends survival of the fittest and how what we believe (or don't believe) as Christians speaks volumes about our worldview and it's ability to be expanded. {category_name} 2012-02-01T09:31:32-05:00 2824 http://biologos.org/blog/behold-the-man http://biologos.org/blog/behold-the-man Anyone interested in the faith and science conversation knows that there currently is considerable, heated debate over the problem of “Adam.” Genetic studies conclude that the modern human population could not have arisen from only one primal couple. {category_name} 2012-01-31T08:00:30-05:00 2805 http://biologos.org/blog/jesus-history-and-mount-darwin-an-academic-excursion-part-13 http://biologos.org/blog/jesus-history-and-mount-darwin-an-academic-excursion-part-13 We did not make it to the top of Mount Darwin. No story of triumph here, intellectual or physical. The story is one of companionship and recognition of academic strengths and weaknesses. Christianity’s intellectual foundation—the miracle of Jesus’ resurrection—is weak at universities. It is weak in the way ancient human history is a weak academic discipline. {category_name} 2012-01-30T08:00:58-05:00 2804 http://biologos.org/blog/small-brown-job http://biologos.org/blog/small-brown-job But in practice, few scientists expect that sort of grand-scale closure. For even if this kind of surety is possible in principle, it is only possible in principle. That is, the power of theories, of formulas, and of scientific images and analogies, is that they help us make sense of the specifics we have already seen while suggesting where next we should look. {category_name} 2012-01-29T00:22:43-05:00 2803 http://biologos.org/blog/the-fall http://biologos.org/blog/the-fall The song entitled “The Fall” by Gungor is from the artists’ latest album Ghosts Upon the Earth. The lyrics begin by painting a picture of the Fall as something in which each person has participated as indicated by the assertion that “the fruit (of the Fall of man) is seen in every eye and every hand.” It then goes on to suggest that nothing is yet a true reality, but rather, a mere shadow of the things to come. {category_name} 2012-01-28T08:00:46-05:00