http://biologos.org/resources/find/Essay/sort-by-Newest?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication This is a custom feed of BioLogos resources. Make a new feed at http://biologos.org/resources/find en Copyright 2013 2013-05-25T15:59:20-08:00 http://biologos.org/essays/seeking-a-signature?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/seeking-a-signature?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this article, Venema offers his review of Stephen Meyer's book Signature in the Cell. Signature in the Cell.]]> Wed, 19 Oct 11 15:14:01 -0700 Dennis Venema http://biologos.org/essays/genesis-and-the-genome?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/genesis-and-the-genome?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication This article provides an overview of genomics evidence for common ancestry and hominid population sizes, and briefly discusses the implications of these lines of evidence for scientific concordist approaches to the Genesis narratives. Wed, 19 Oct 11 15:09:09 -0700 Dennis Venema http://biologos.org/essays/evolution-and-the-origin-of-biological-information?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/evolution-and-the-origin-of-biological-information?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this paper, Venema explores several examples in biology where random mutation and natural selection have indeed led to substantial increases in biological information. The question of how new specified information arises in DNA, far from being an “enigma”, is one of great interest to biologists. Wed, 19 Oct 11 14:48:05 -0700 Dennis Venema http://biologos.org/essays/from-intelligent-design-to-biologos?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/from-intelligent-design-to-biologos?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this paper, Venema tells the story of his transition from support of Intelligent Design to the view that God uses evolution as a creative mechanism. Wed, 19 Oct 11 14:17:25 -0700 Dennis Venema http://biologos.org/essays/the-biologos-foundation-and-darwins-pious-idea?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/the-biologos-foundation-and-darwins-pious-idea?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this paper, theologian John Wesley Wright reviews Connor Cunningham's book Darwin's Pious Idea, a work that deeply explores the integration of Darwinian evolutionary theory and Christian faith. Darwin's Pious Idea, a work that deeply explores the integration of Darwinian evolutionary theory and Christian faith.]]> Wed, 19 Oct 11 13:50:46 -0700 John Wesley Wright http://biologos.org/essays/understanding-adam?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/understanding-adam?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this paper, Pete Enns looks at from a unique angle to some: Adam is the beginning of Israel, not humanity. He follows through with how this line of thinking affects our reading of the Genesis account. Wed, 19 Oct 11 13:33:48 -0700 Pete Enns http://biologos.org/essays/come-and-see?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/come-and-see?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication This chapter from Mark Noll's book Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind seeks to understand science through a Christ-centered lens. Overall, if one accepts that nature is created and sustained by Jesus Christ, the author explains, then one must conclude that looking at nature is, in fact, the best way to learn about nature. Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind seeks to understand science through a Christ-centered lens. Overall, if one accepts that nature is created and sustained by Jesus Christ, the author explains, then one must conclude that looking at nature is, in fact, the best way to learn about nature.]]> Wed, 19 Oct 11 12:43:35 -0700 Mark Noll http://biologos.org/essays/the-collapsing-universe-in-the-bible?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/the-collapsing-universe-in-the-bible?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this essay, Godawa argues that the decreation language of a collapsing universe with falling stars and signs in the heavens was actually symbolic discourse about world-changing events and powers related to the end of the old covenant and the coming of the new covenant as God’s “new world order.” In this interpretation, predictions of the collapsing universe were figuratively fulfilled in the historic past of the first century. Wed, 19 Oct 11 12:25:42 -0700 Brian Godawa http://biologos.org/essays/c.s.-lewis-on-evolution-and-intelligent-design?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/c.s.-lewis-on-evolution-and-intelligent-design?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication This article is a comprehensive study of the views of Christian author and apologist C. S. Lewis on the theory of evolution and the argument from intelligent design. It explains how he would distinguish expressly philosophical arguments for a Transcendent Mind from the current claims of the intelligent design (ID) movement to provide scientific evidence for such a reality. Wed, 19 Oct 11 12:06:04 -0700 Michael L. Peterson http://biologos.org/essays/science-as-an-instrument-of-worship?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/science-as-an-instrument-of-worship?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication NASA astronomer Jennifer Wiseman asserts that studying creation can show us the nature of God; science can inform us of what we need to do as stewards of God’s creation; understanding the natural world gives us a deeper knowledge of Jesus Christ; and science can give us a better understanding of ourselves. This essay was presented at the November 2009 Theology of Celebration Workshop. Mon, 02 May 11 19:10:34 -0700 Jennifer Wiseman http://biologos.org/essays/barriers-to-accepting-creation-by-an-evolutionary-process-I?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/barriers-to-accepting-creation-by-an-evolutionary-process-I?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Renowned Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke considers eleven barriers that prevent evangelical theologians from accepting evolution as a possible means of creation and what these barriers tell us about the tensions perceived by many Evangelicals between science and faith. Waltke's work was based on a survey sent to members of the Fellowship of Evangelical Seminary Presidents and their faculty. Mon, 02 May 11 19:04:27 -0700 Bruce Waltke http://biologos.org/essays/an-evangelical-geneticists-critique-of-reasons-to-believes-testable-creatio?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/an-evangelical-geneticists-critique-of-reasons-to-believes-testable-creatio?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Biologist and BioLogos Senior Fellow Denis Venema examines the interaction between RTB literature and several lines of genetics-based evidence for common ancestry. In so doing, he also addresses the scientific robustness and reliability of the RTB model. Mon, 02 May 11 19:02:57 -0700 Dennis Venema http://biologos.org/essays/metaphor-mystery-and-paradox-at-the-confluence-of-science-and-faith?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/metaphor-mystery-and-paradox-at-the-confluence-of-science-and-faith?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Artist and BioLogos Senior Fellow Mark Sprinkle considers the role mystery plays in both science and faith, and why basing one's faith purely on reason in fact contributes to a rationalist view of the world rejected by many Christians. Mon, 02 May 11 19:00:40 -0700 Mark Sprinkle http://biologos.org/essays/faithful-poetics-and-christian-knowledge-of-the-world?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/faithful-poetics-and-christian-knowledge-of-the-world?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Artist and BioLogos Senior Fellow Mark Sprinkle describes the importance of acknowledging the creative and subjective aspects of human knowledge in the midst of the debates about the relationship between science and faith. Mon, 02 May 11 18:59:47 -0700 Mark Sprinkle http://biologos.org/essays/accommodationist-and-proud-of-it?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/accommodationist-and-proud-of-it?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Science and religion scholar Michael Ruse gives a personal account of his experiences as an author and public speaker on the compatibility of Christianity and biological evolution. Mon, 02 May 11 18:53:59 -0700 Michael Ruse http://biologos.org/essays/evangelicals-creation-and-scripture-an-overview?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/evangelicals-creation-and-scripture-an-overview?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Mark Noll, historian and author of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, enumerates 15 attitudes, assumptions, and convictions he considers to be most influential in inciting anti-intellectual sentiment among evangelical Christians. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, enumerates 15 attitudes, assumptions, and convictions he considers to be most influential in inciting anti-intellectual sentiment among evangelical Christians.]]> Mon, 02 May 11 18:50:53 -0700 Mark Noll http://biologos.org/essays/science-religion-and-a.-d.-white-seeking-peace-in-the-warfare-between-scien?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/science-religion-and-a.-d.-white-seeking-peace-in-the-warfare-between-scien?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Mark Noll, historian and author of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, describes how Andrew Dickson White relentlessly advocated a view of history in which Science and Dogmatic Theology have always been at war with one another. Noll identifies 16 reasons why White’s notion of warfare is mistaken. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, describes how Andrew Dickson White relentlessly advocated a view of history in which Science and Dogmatic Theology have always been at war with one another. Noll identifies 16 reasons why White’s notion of warfare is mistaken.]]> Mon, 02 May 11 18:49:01 -0700 Mark Noll http://biologos.org/essays/human-evolution-in-theological-context?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/human-evolution-in-theological-context?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this scholarly paper, physicist, theologian, and minister George Murphy offers a theological look at human evolution and the implications it has for Christianity. Mon, 02 May 11 18:46:30 -0700 George Murphy http://biologos.org/essays/the-cambrian-explosion-transitional-forms-and-the-tree-of-life?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/the-cambrian-explosion-transitional-forms-and-the-tree-of-life?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Geologist Keith Miller examines the "Cambrian Explosion", a period of rapid evolutionary diversification approximately 575 million years ago, and whether it poses a challenge to evolutionary theory. Mon, 02 May 11 18:45:49 -0700 Keith Miller http://biologos.org/essays/miracles-and-science-the-long-shadow-of-david-hume?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/miracles-and-science-the-long-shadow-of-david-hume?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this paper, physicist Ard Louis, a "scientist who believes in the miracles of the Bible", looks at the implications science has on the acceptance of miracles. Mon, 02 May 11 18:43:36 -0700 Ard Louis